[Bug 1246364] Re: update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu

[Forest]

This is still a problem in vivid. It looks like GNOME users have a new
update notification  based on PackageKit, but AFAICT, users of Xubuntu
and other desktops are still stuck using the (now broken) update-
notifier. My patch still works with the version of update-notifier that
is included in Vivid, so it really wouldn't take much for the
maintainer(s) to fix this problem.

Side note: I did find a relatively new package called pk-update-icon
that looks like it's intended to take over the job that update-notifier
used to do, but sadly, it depends on GNOME packages (including,
indirectly, gnome-settings-daemon and libwacom2). This makes it look
like a bad choice for Xfce.

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Title:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in The Update Notifier:
  New
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon/notification in xubuntu 13.10 anymore. Instead the software updater window appears minimized, when updates are available.
  Additionally I tried to trigger the 'System Restart Required'-notification manually by adapting /var/run/reboot-required, but no notification was displayed (although it shows up in motd).
  As a side note: I got a 'there is something wrong with updates'-notification by removing update-notifier-common while update-notifier was running.

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