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Wheatgrass

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Registered: 2020-03-29

Posts: 2

Pacman Update Applet for Status Bar

I've recently uninstalled pamac due to me never using it for anything. However, I did like having the little applet in my system tray telling me when updates were available. I was wondering if there was something similar available in the official repos.

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,253

Re: Pacman Update Applet for Status Bar

Not a tray item, but I wrote a quick bash script to give a desktop notification. It checks once per hour, and issues a beep as well in case I miss the notification.

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
	CHK=$(checkupdates)
	if [ ${#CHK} -gt 0 ]; then
		notify-send "Updates available"
		beep
	fi
	sleep 3600
done

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Wheatgrass

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Registered: 2020-03-29

Posts: 2

Re: Pacman Update Applet for Status Bar

Awesome. I'm loving this script. I didn't even know about the checkupdates command. Thank you very much.