Transactional Update Notifier

This tool can be used in conjunction with transactional-update's notify method in order to notify all graphically logged in users about updates performed.

Build and installation

All you're going to need is Go >= 1.18 and GNU Make

make
sudo make install

Usage

Daemon

Transactional Update Notifier should be run as a user's Systemd unit.

This will wait for messages over dbus at org.opensuse.tukit.Updated and trigger the graphical notification when receiving the signal.

Graphical notifications are performed using user's dbus session.

~$: transactional-update-notifier daemon

Or using systemctl:

~$: systemctl --user enable --now transactional-update-notifier

Note: After installing Transactional Update Notifier using make, the 96-transactional-update-notifier.preset preset file should enable the unit service by default on next boot and all you needed to do is to start it with:

~$: systemctl --user start transactional-update-notifier

Client

Transactional Update Notifier can be run from anywhere and executed by anyone, it will send messages over dbus on org.opensuse.tukit.Updated and all listening services will trigger a graphical notification.

~#: transactional-update-notifier client

Be aware that the file org.opensuse.tukit.Updated.conf should be put into /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ in order to protect the org.opensuse.tukit.Updated name and allow only root to emit signals on this interface.