Peter,
What version of (K)Ubuntu are you running?
On 24/07/2026 09:35, Peter Merchant wrote:
I still get a notification on the status bar as an Up Arrow with a
circle around it and Blue dot when there are updates. This dot is red
for a security update. I think I have it set to weekly, but seem to
get them every day.
P.
On 24/07/2026 08:11, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
In what seems like a retrograde step, Ubuntu has removed the routine
updates notifications facility in order (apparently) to make the
experience less confusing (see
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-update-notifications-disabled).
Unfortunately the problem also affects Kubuntu and I couldn't fix the
problem by using the command 'gsettings set
com.ubuntu.update-notifier show-updates-status-icon true' as
described in the link (no such schema).
As stated in the article, security updates are apparently done
automatically in the background, but without notifications, the only
way to find out if there are update is to run 'sudo apt update' in a
shell. I don't have a real problem with that, except it is easy to
forget it.
More importantly, as I see it, some users will never find out about
pending updates, leaving their system in a potentially degraded state,
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