I'm with imhigh.today and xinomilo, it should have at least the option to lock. I want my screen to be locked when resuming from either suspend or hibernate.

I've been reading this guide, that brought me to my undestanding: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/sch … --net-8800

Where do you get that log? I've been just observing when do I get the aforementioned mail from the cron job...

My cron job for the update is set like this: 0 */3 * * * root /usr/bin/apt-get update

According to what you say and what seems from that log, it would mean it would be done at 3 am, 6 am etc... But I received that mail some time after midnight and before 3 am -- of that I'm sure. So I believe it counts 3 hours since the computer boot up, and than again, and again... I will give more precise attention to it tomorrow.

It IS confusing...

Are you sure? If I understand that syntax right, that means every 3:45 h since a computer is started. I believe 3 would mean at 3 am, and */3 means every 3 hours since you start a computer... Am I wrong about it? At least, that's what it seems to work like here on my machine...

Yeah, I was about to say: "Check 'automatically connect' in Wicd... I don't know, but this works fine on my laptop, and I don't have any idea why would it not on yours. So I am really replying just for bumping your post... XD

If everything else fails, maybe you can try with Network Manager... Does it work in Devuan (i.e. no systemd)? I haven't tried it myself... Not yet, at least.

Obviously... XD

I've known, somewhat, about Jaromil and Dyne.org for many years, but I didn't caught he was among the VUA and all... :-p Good to know. :-)

@fsmithred and @Geoff 42:

Indeed, when I tried greping from "apt update" in terminal, apt did output a warning about it not having a stable interface, and that therefore scripting it is discouraged, but the grep output was exactly what I expected it to be, so I figured it is probably stable enough for what we need here, and I put it in the python script, anyway. And in fact, I AM getting update notifications, just as expected. It works! :-)

Now, some might still protest against using apt in scripts, but this way we have one configuration file less, which makes it simpler. And if simpler gives the same result, than simpler is better, IMO.

What do you think Miyo?

OK, I have tried to change only the check command in the script to this: check = "/usr/bin/apt update | /bin/grep -c 'upgraded'",

And I have removed the cron job, as redundant, if this works.

We'll see in time if it works now...

I have noticed I am receiving "mail" with logs from this script in /var/mail/<myusername>. I am not sure if it is caused by the script or otherwise, but I would like it to stop. XD Any ideas?

OK, thanks! Indeed, I would make it a bit less frequently... :-)

OK, I've set it up. But there are no upgrades available ATM, so we have to wait to see how it works here... XD

Kewl! :-) Will it hit repos any time soon?

pkexec seems to work fine for me on Beowulf. Only Mousepad, for some reason, gives me an error if I try to open it with pkexec... But I'm good enough with nano when I need to edit a file as root.

As stated above, I'm fine with pkexec for now... But that's off topic and beside the point. The point here is I can't use the update notifier suggested by MiyoLinux, because the deprecated gksu is a dependency, and I am no coder, so I don't know how to change sources and recompile the whole thing to work with pkexec or anything else.

It is in the repos, alright. I've tried it, but it pulls in with it the same updating software used in Ubuntu, which at first I thought was cool, since I came here from Ubuntu, but then it didn't work on Devuan... XD Sofware and Updates spits up some errors and then it doesn't start, and Software Updater, which is related, start up, and without checking it says there are no updates available, and it shuts down as soon as you click "OK", so you can do nothing to re-check or anything.

So, yeah.... Any other idea? :-D