Package Manager tray icon shows a blue dot after updates are completed

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I believe there is already a post about this issue already but I can’t find it anywhere so I have opened up a new one.

I have found that when I see the package manager icon in the tray with a blue icon I know that there are updates ready to be done, so I do the updates through the packager GUI and they complete successfully.

Sometimes the blue dot disappears from the tray icon but I have noticed that the last few updates that complete successfully show the blue dot afterwards. It seems like this issue happens mostly with Flatpak packages.

To clear the blue dot, I manually go to the 3 horizontal dots on the right-hand side near the minimise button and click on “Refresh databases” and once this process completes the blue dot disappears from the tray icon.

I was wondering, is it possible to automate the “Refresh databases” function after the updates complete so that the function of the tray icon reliably shows the correct status?

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The package manager and the tray-notifier is two different applications.

Simply ignore it and it will go away.

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It usually disappears (in my experience 99% of the time). For some reason it doesn’t by some users. A restart also clears it, always.

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I think this happens when “Third Party” AUR is enabled and at a database update (or ‘check for updates’) the repos databases update successfully but the AUR one fails.

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Good thinking.

In my opinion - on the average system - one should not leave AUR enabled in Add / Remove Software app - and there is a number of reasons - apart from the unsupported nature of AUR, there is

  • general security
  • avoid accidently build of a malicious app
  • avoid accidently building an obsolete when moved to AUR
  • avoid the risc of replacing system libraries with custom libraries
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I haven’t seen this issue for awhile. In my case the following command in terminal made the blue dot go away:

pamac update --no-aur
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Not just your opinion - it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

Additionally, it’s often best to just ignore AUR updates unless there’s a good reason to get them - after a major system upgrade.

There was general talk of a ‘delay switch’ which I think isn’t a good idea either, the onus is on USERS to manage their system.

I check for AUR upgrades after each major system upgrade, that’s good enough… and it makes sure I’m not trying to update anything following an Arch update not yet implemented in Manjaro.

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Thank you for all your responses, It turns out that I have a few AUR packages. I will go through and remove the ones I don’t need and find alternative packages to install instead.

Again, my thanks to you all.

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