update manager interaction with unity sidebar

[gleedadswell]

I kind of like that when the update manager comes up it just politely appears in the sidebar and that I can right click and choose "install all" from the right click menu. But, when I left click the update manager icon on the sidebar shouldn't it launch the update manager interface so I can review the available updates and read the descriptions of them? When I left click the update manager icon nothing happens. If I want to read the descriptions of the updates I need to launch the update manager from Dash.

Is this a bug or something intentional? Or have I unknowingly got some setting that causes this?

I'm using 11.10 on an HP 2000-240ca laptop (dual AMD E-350 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6300 graphics card).

[jimmydean886-2]

I'm not sure if it's actually logged as a bug, but that happens to me too. I just use alt+tab to get to it and it comes right up.

[racmar]

Same thing has been happening to me for the last several weeks. It is annoying, but I just close it and open a terminal to use apt-get.

Today I was annoyed with it and tried to delete the .update-manager-core from my home folder.

Can you try it and see if it works for you?


rm -rf ~/.update-manager-core/

[racmar]

After running:

update-manager --no-focus-on-map

I can see that my proposed fix did not work.

I've also tried:


sudo apt-get remove --purge update-manager* update-notifier*
sudo apt-get install update-manager update-notifier


I do notice that if I wait a few seconds for the number of packages to show up in the icon that I can open the update-manager after doing the remove/install from above.

Any other suggestions / fixes?

[jimmydean886-2]

Click on the desktop, then try clicking the launcher again. That worked before alt+tab became habbit for me.

[gleedadswell]

Nope, none of those are working for me. Clicking on the desktop then on the icon in the sidebar doesn't do anything. Its icon appears among the others with ALT+Tab, but ALT-Tabbing to it doesn't bring it up. Still the only way is to open it from Dash.

I notice that the little arrow pointing at it in the sidebar is solid light blue, but the arrows pointing at anything else is clear with a white outline if its not the active window and solid white if it is the active window. Does the light blue arrow have some special meaning?

[thaelim]

When this happened to me, I go round it by right clicking the icon in the sidebar, clicking Quit/Close (whatever it's called), then manually starting update manager again.

[gleedadswell]

Yes, that's what I do as well. It's just a minor annoyance to have to do this rather than have it launch properly from the sidebar.

[gleedadswell]

The other thing I've just noticed is that when I right click and choose "install all updates" from the sidebar it doesn't ask me for my password. It just goes ahead and does the update. That seems like a potential security hole.