Stephen Boddy wrote:
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.
I am not having the problem you describe. I can update as a user from the icon in the system tray (after I enter the root password, of course). I cannot remember the beginning of this thread and therefore have to ask: which version of smart are you running? If you are running the one which comes with SuSE 10.1 then uninstall it and install the latest one (0.42) at the following URL: http://labix.org/smart and it is the one for SuSE by Pascal Bleser - and get the one for your CPU (the x86 or the x86_64). You don't need the one with 'debuginfo' in its name so there are 5 rpms to download. This set of packages also has the channels already configured (but you need to activate some) and, fo course, you can add to them. (While you are on that site why not join the smart forum there? The author(s) of smart are active there so you can discuss matters directly with him/them.) Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1 -- 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