Update icon has disappeared

[mcdactor]

I have no idea how this happened but my update icon has disappeared in Intrepid. I get a little balloon at top left hand side of the desktop telling me when updates are available but the little gear icon is missing. I have had to do updates manually through Terminal. No great difficulty there. But, I want my little green gear back.

Previous threads referring to related problems in earlier versions do not work.

Any ideas?

Jim

[tomp01]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

I have no idea how this happened but my update icon has disappeared in Intrepid.

I don't really understand, surely you can just go into Adept and download the updates from there.

[rmallis]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

I have no idea how this happened but my update icon has disappeared in Intrepid.

I don't really understand, surely you can just go into Adept and download the updates from there.

I think the issue is that the system tray notification for adept is not activating, thus, in order to find out when updates are available, you have to manually enter adept and check. The same thing is happening to me and I'd like to know where to look to get it back. This happened after my update to KDE4.2 from the experimental repositories. I had some serious package issues with the install and maybe this was lost somewhere or it is a regression of adept...

[sithlord48]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

did you perhaps change your icon set to one that does not have an icon for the updater, i have lost some icons in this manor... , if so go back to default for a bit and see if the "magicly" comes back

[rmallis]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

did you perhaps change your icon set to one that does not have an icon for the updater, i have lost some icons in this manor... , if so go back to default for a bit and see if the "magicly" comes back

I have my icons set to Oxygen. That's the default, right? Everything else looks good. It had switched to CrystalSVG, which was missing some major icons, like the lock and off buttons, but when they were missing, another placeholder filled in, so I don't think that's the problem.

[mcdactor]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

I don't think it's so much an icon problem as a task manager disappearance or whatever [the terminology is confusing, something developers might look at for the next desktop or whatever].

The reason I say this is that when I print a document the printer icon no longer appears either.

Cheers,

Jim

[rmallis]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

I fixed my problem by installing the package "update-notifier-kde" and then
sudo /usr/bin/update-notifier-kde
The gear is now back when I need it and comes back even after I logout/reboot/login.

ps aux | grep update-notifier-kde

can confirm this with the following output:

mallis 5818 0.0 2.7 119120 42980 ? SNl Feb26 0:16 python /usr/bin/update-notifier-kde

I don't know if the o.p. solved his problem, but mine is solved

[sithlord48]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

please mark as solved so other can fix this problem

[rmallis]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

rmalis, I think you hit the nail on the head.
It just happened the Icon was activated on my task bar and indeed it's called update notifier.
But the package is called update-manager-kde

I could swear my troubles only went away when I installed update-notifier-kde. I do have "update-manager-kde" installed, but somehow not "update-notifier-kde". I won't argue the point, but if "update-manager-kde" doesn't work for someone out there, there's something more to try

[mcdactor]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

Folks,

This is partially resolved for me. I had problems when I manually did a package upgrade [ see discussion at http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...pic=3101845.0]. But when I used the code:

sudo apt-get - - install kde-window-manager

the systems setting tray reappeared on the desktop. It had been hiding behind the desktop folder.

I say, "partially", because it does not sit at the bottom of the screen, but I can live with that.

Cheers, Jim

[rmallis]

Re: Update icon has disappeared

I say, "partially", because it does not sit at the bottom of the screen, but I can live with that.

Cheers, Jim

Can't you right-click on the desktop>Unlock widgets then move your system tray onto your panel? or am I misunderstanding your situation?