Re: Program notifications, GAIM & Thunderbird
On 02/02/2005 11:40 PM, Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
I've been running debian for servers for a short while now, but I'm
finally trying to make a full switchover as my desktop OS on my laptop.
I'm pretty much hooked, but I have two nuisances which I'd greatly like
to solve. (Well 4 actually, but 2 which I'll address here)
1) When I get a GAIM message I want my panel icon for the message to
flash until I address it. (Setting the Urgent hint does nothing for me
in Gnome, and in KDE it only flashes a couple of times, and even that
only when I select some aspect of GAIM)
2) I use Thunderbird for mail, and when I get a new message I want an
obvious visual notification. A popup in the system tray (is there a more
appropriate linux name for it?) would be great. I noticed Gnome had a
mail notification for my locally delivered mails... I'd be happy if I
could tie this into Thunderbird too. Just some way to glance and see I
have new mail without opening Thunderbird and scrolling up and down my
folder list.
I realize the answer to these, if there are any, probably are very
different in KDE & Gnome or any other window mangaer for that matter, to
that I'll only say, I'm currently switching back and forth between KDE &
Gnome trying to decide which I prefer, so ideally I'd like to handle
this in both systems.
Thanks for any insights.
Hi Rob,
I use a much lighter desktop; gnome-settings-daemon, openbox window
manager and fspanel. No need for GNOME overhead... (This gives me a
very responsive platform on my old PIII 128 Mb Dell.)
1) GAIM notifications are set within GAIM.
2) Thunderbird has its own new mail sound notification, but I use
gkrellm, gkrellm-mailwatch for sound and *visual* notification. This
includes choice of animated notification and/or new message/total
message count and/or by mailbox. For movemail (system mail), this is
particularly nice because a thunderbird bug prevents automatic mail
checks of /var/mail/user.
gkrellm-mailwatch is very configurable and should work with kde and gnome.
Good luck!
Ralph
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