mgaapplet does not show in systemtray

[icobgr]

Hi,
I have Mageia 2 b3 installed from server and magapplet icon does not show in the systemtray. Till now I'm using MCC to install updates.
Any help?

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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ps faux | grep mgaapplet

[icobgr]

[icobgr@desktop ~]$ ps faux | grep mgaapplet
icobgr 10817 0.0 2.1 383924 125336 ? SN 10:37 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/mgaapplet

It is started but don't show in tray so I cannot use it.

[leuhmanu]

IIRC mgaapplet search only the updates from the repository marked as 'updates', so since there is nothing in these on in cauldron, you will never seen the applet.

[doktor5000]

Ahh, yes, good point An easy workaround would be to mark all the _release media as update media, so you can do your updates via mgaapplet if that's what you really want. You can do that via drakrpm-edit-media --expert as root

[jkerr82508]

IIRC mgaapplet search only the updates from the repository marked as 'updates', so since there is nothing in these on in cauldron, you will never seen the applet.

I don't have the release repo's marked as update media, but the applet is finding and reporting updates. I believe that some years ago the applet was modified so that on cooker, it checked release repo's. I assume that this change was carried forward into Mageia for cauldron.

Jim

[jkerr82508]

[icobgr@desktop ~]$ ps faux | grep mgaapplet
icobgr 10817 0.0 2.1 383924 125336 ? SN 10:37 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/mgaapplet

It is started but don't show in tray so I cannot use it.

The applet only appears after the repo's have been checked and updates have been found. By default, this will not be until at least 5 minutes after system start-up. Otherwise, the applet does not appear.

Jim

[icobgr]

I have two instalaltions of new Mageia Cauldron.
First installation I have made from beta 2 disk on my laptop and then I used Cauldron repository for update and other packages installaiton. On laptop mgaapplet appear in the tray from the bginning and works OK there.
Second installation I have made on my desktop computer when beta 3 was announced and I made it from Internet installation from Cauldron repository. mgapplet never appear in the tray. I allways used MCC to update new packages because mgaapplet never appear in the tray. I even tried uninstall and install again mgaapplet but this didn't help. In media configuration all update medias are selected for update.