mintupdate
For some reason mintupdate broke a while back and I lost the icon that tells me I have updates queued. I looked for AAAAGES before I found this forum page: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=181856#p972796 Here's my version: Open a terminal and do sudo vim /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py Find the following... auto_refresh = AutomaticRefreshThread(treeview_update, statusIcon, wTree) auto_refresh.start() gtk.main() and edit it so that you have auto_refresh = AutomaticRefreshThread(treeview_update, statusIcon, wTree) auto_refresh.start() gtk.gdk.threads_enter() gtk.main() gtk.gdk.threads_leave() Save and do an apt-get update, then run mintUpdate again.