Whats this

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 08:58:13 pm Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Friday 22 January 2010 01:17:13 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Friday 22 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 January 2010 22:32:39 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 21 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > > just noticed an icon in the system tray. I have no idea what
> > > > > it is. There's no indication when hovering and nothing
> > > > > happens when I click on it. Pic attached.
> > > >
> > > > Last time I checked (before I uninstalled it), the thing had a
> > > > tooltip that was pretty self-explanatory...
> > >
> > > Oh yes - now it has a tool-tip saying "Loading cache". I wonder
> > > what cache and why?
> >
> > Mark Greenwood's reply has a clue to that: it's the package cache and
> > it does it to find out whether there are any updates available it can
> > annoy you with...
> 
> Yes I guess he's right. Although I did a "sudo aptitude update && sudo
> aptitude safe-upgrade" it doesn't go away. I'll re-relogin tomorrow
>  (doesn't happen that often) and then it's probably gone)
> 

I run Kubuntu here, and that icon isn't telling you that updates are 
available, its just the stupid update app icon stuck in the system tray.  :-D

Normally I click on it and it just goes away, but sometimes it hangs around 
for a bit.  I wouldn't worry about it. 

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Howard Coles Jr.
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