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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:12:31 +0000What is a good update notifier for i3?https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/Does anyone know a good update notifier for i3? In Gnome, we use update-notifier, but it does not work properly with i3 (crashes with me on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit). I found some alternatives on arch linux community, but I wonder if anyone here is using anything else, more tailored to i3 style... (maybe a simple systray icon, or dzen2 messages?)Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:53:12 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/Comment by bruno.braga for Does anyone know a good update notifier for i3? In Gnome, we use update-notifier, but it does not work properly with i3 (crashes with me on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit). I found some alternatives on arch linux community, but I wonder if anyone here is using anything else, more tailored to i3 style... (maybe a simple systray icon, or dzen2 messages?) https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=1512#comment-1512Yes Michael, that's what I meant.Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:06:43 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=1512#comment-1512Comment by Michael for Does anyone know a good update notifier for i3? In Gnome, we use update-notifier, but it does not work properly with i3 (crashes with me on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit). I found some alternatives on arch linux community, but I wonder if anyone here is using anything else, more tailored to i3 style... (maybe a simple systray icon, or dzen2 messages?) https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=1511#comment-1511Maybe you should clarify what you mean by update notifier. I presume it’s a tool which checks whether any updates are available via apt, so it’s distribution-specific, right?Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:02:46 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=1511#comment-1511Answer by smiszym for Does anyone know a good update notifier for i3? In Gnome, we use update-notifier, but it does not work properly with i3 (crashes with me on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit). I found some alternatives on arch linux community, but I wonder if anyone here is using anything else, more tailored to i3 style... (maybe a simple systray icon, or dzen2 messages?) https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?answer=2122#post-id-2122If you installed i3 via package manager such as apt or pacman, you should configure it to confirm new updates. If that crashes, the bug resists in package manager. But if you installed i3 manually (for example by downloading sources and compiling them), you should do updates manually too.Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:52:23 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?answer=2122#post-id-2122Comment by bruno.braga for If you installed i3 via package manager such as apt or pacman, you should configure it to confirm new updates. If that crashes, the bug resists in package manager. But if you installed i3 manually (for example by downloading sources and compiling them), you should do updates manually too. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=2129#comment-2129Sorry for not being clear, the question is about running the package update-manager, that comes by default on Debian... so instead of running apt-get upgrade myself, it has a scheduling service that notifies me when I should be upgrading stuff... So, it is actually for other packages.Mon, 01 Jul 2013 22:13:07 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=2129#comment-2129Answer by sycamorex for Does anyone know a good update notifier for i3? In Gnome, we use update-notifier, but it does not work properly with i3 (crashes with me on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit). I found some alternatives on arch linux community, but I wonder if anyone here is using anything else, more tailored to i3 style... (maybe a simple systray icon, or dzen2 messages?) https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?answer=2132#post-id-2132Why don't you create a short script that would run apt-get in a crontab to be run regularly and save the results in a file (eg. "No updates available" or "Time to update" and display the contents of the file in i3status?Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:23:28 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?answer=2132#post-id-2132Comment by bruno.braga for Why don't you create a short script that would run apt-get in a crontab to be run regularly and save the results in a file (eg. "No updates available" or "Time to update" and display the contents of the file in i3status? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=2133#comment-2133yeah, that is a solution, just figured that, since we have update-manager in Debian (someone already did this), I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, just because I can, you know? But, if there are no other options, then, I guess this is the way to go.Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:12:31 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/1509/what-is-a-good-update-notifier-for-i3/?comment=2133#comment-2133