How place 'check updates' launcher directly in the panel? [Solved]

[Pretty Vacant]

First thing we do after being online is to check for updates. We right-click the 'wireframe' icon in the panel and scroll down to 'check for updates'. How can you place this 'check updates' directly in the panel?

Next, when there are updates, but no 'green wireframe' icon appears, we left-click on the 'wireframe' icon; Synaptic opens. We select 'mark all upgrades' but it is not shown which updates are being made. Only after clicked 'apply'. Then it is too late to refuse any update. How check all updates in Synaptic

[asqwerth]

Synaptic -

1. click on the "reload" button at the top. This will check the repos and refresh the package lists.

2. go to "Status" in the left pane.
3. click on "Upgradeable" filter in the left pane. That will show all the packages that have updates.

[Pretty Vacant]

Synaptic -

Thanks for that, and what about the 'launcher'?

[Eadwine Rose]

Right click, preferences. You can set the left click to open synaptic if you prefer.

[asqwerth]

The notifer wireframe box icon is not a launcher icon, but something that appears in the "notification area" (what Windows calls system tray).

The MX app in question is called apt-notifier. However, if you create a panel launcher with that, clicking on it just runs the program to place the wireframe box in the notification area. That launcher is not going to check updates itself.

Or you could try, Eadwine says, to right click on the wireframe box and examine the preferences/settings option in the context menu.

[fehlix]

First thing we do after being online is to check for updates. We right-click the 'wireframe' icon in the panel and scroll down to 'check for updates'. How can you place this 'check updates' directly in the panel?

Use a desktop entry with the following content:

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[Desktop Entry]
# filename: check-for-updates.desktop
# copy to ~/.local/share/applications/check-for-updates.desktop
# fehlix: 25.04.2025
# see MX Linux forum post:  https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=817623#p817623
# 
Type=Application
Name=Check for Updates
Icon=apt-notifier
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=System;
StartupWMClass=apt-notifier
Keywords=apt;update;upgrade;notifier;
Exec=/usr/lib/apt-notifier/bin/updater_reload_run
TryExec=/usr/lib/apt-notifier/bin/updater_reload_run
Comment=MX Updater: Check for Updates

Save as file check-for-updates.desktop and copy to/ under

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~/.local/share/applicatios/check-for-updates.desktop

which is:

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$HOME/.local/share/applicatios/check-for-updates.desktop

Search now in the menu for "Check for Updates" and right-click to add to the panel
Incase it does not work for you post QSI, so we can help you.

[danux]

Right click, preferences. You can set the left click to open synaptic if you prefer.

It would be nice to exist in Preferences also the option to set the left click to open MX Package Installer instead of Synaptic (when there are no updates).

[Pretty Vacant]

Use a desktop entry with the following content:

Marvellous! This is exactly what i'm looking for: a 1 click check updates.
Thanx fehlix!