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bond

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 62

pactray - small notifier for pacman updates

https://github.com/Thermionix/pactray
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pactray/

Pactray is a python process which runs in the background,
checking system updates with checkupdates and cower -u

When updates are available an icon is shown in the system tray.

Left clicking the icon will show a notification of the available updates

Right clicking will execute update_cmd (if configured)

default configuration

update_interval=120 #minutes between executing checks for updates)
notification_timeout=10 #seconds to show notification popup for)
icon_file=archlogo.png #absolute path to file to use as the icon)

sample custom configuration

~/.config/pactray.conf

[global]
update_cmd=/usr/bin/mate-terminal --disable-factory -e "bash -c 'pacaur -Syu || read -p \"Press [Enter] to continue\"'"

uses python3 (should work for both gtk2+gtk3)
KISS : currently @ < 150 LOC

Would like to eventually have appended to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gr … _notifiers
Recommendations and pull requests most welcome!