On Thursday 27 July 2006 08:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
I guess I am just a bit 'confused' (which matters not) about your concerns because the tray icon DOES blink when there are new updates available for installation. The only thing I find wrong with this blinking is that once you put the cursor on the icon the blinking stops. And the other thing I would like to see is it change colour to indicate new updates like the icon for the zmd/zen/YOU - but this, and the previous point, is only a cosmetic thing and really of no great import.
Ah! Then we have come to the crux of the confusion. My system absolutely does not blink when there are updates. If ksmarttray is running as a regular user, the channel update command does not work. Try it from the shell as your normal user. You should get "error: Configuration is in readonly mode." because you shouldn't have the necessary privileges to update the cached information. The only way this could be working for you is if you either: - somehow have smart configured to work from a config/cache that your user has read/write permissions for, - perhaps your user is part of the wheel group or something like that, or - you have a crontab configured to run the smart update command as root. (This is my current solution) I agree with you about the icon states. Worth noting that if you do cancel the blinking without upgrading, then the blinking should restart after an hour. Even without the blinking the tootltip will always give you the info also. -- Steve Boddy -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com