Lost MintUpdate icon

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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

Post by rivenought »

Andy,

Have you rebooted yet? I know I keep my mintUpdate applet turned off all the time, but it will show back up after a reboot. That might help in your situation, but not sure. It depends on what made it vanish in the first place. Good luck.
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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

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Have you verified that it is Mint Update is set to startup in sessions?
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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

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So mintUpdate works, and you can add an icon per this post:
It's not available in the "add to panel ..." window, and dropping MintUpdate from the menu onto the panel adds the shield icon. Update still works fine, but I'd like the visual warning of available downloads.
So if you have the shield in the tray and you open MintUpdate, and select preferences and then icons what icons are displayed? If its the shield can you change the icon to what is located at: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/icons?
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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

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Have you removed notification area from panel?
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Have you any other icons on the panel? Network icon, battery etc?
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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

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Right click on panel, select add to panel and find Notification area on the list...
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Re: Lost MintUpdate icon

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You are not the first one to do this, a common mistake :)
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