Re: A notification tray?
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:09 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200
> Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>
> > Sharon Kimble:
> > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification
> > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like
> > > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new
> > > emails, nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this
> > > 'tray'? Can it be used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's?
> >
> > I don't know about fluxbox, but most window managers reserve space for
> > the tray in some kind of panel or status bar. Your real question
> > probably is which application puts the information you need into the
> > tray. One example:
> >
> > $ apt-cache search tray icon mail
> > checkgmail - alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds
> > claws-mail-trayicon - Notification area plugin for Claws Mail
> > xul-ext-firetray - system tray extension for Thunderbird/Firefox
> > alike apps zim - graphical text editor based on wiki technologies
> >
> The notification tray is completely separate from the system tray,
> and is I think, a separate package, and that’s what I'm looking for, or
> something similar.
>
> > If your window manager lacks a tray area you can try the package
> > "trayer".
>
> There already is a system tray in fluxbox, and even though I use tint2
> as my panel, it still has a system tray in it. I did try running
> 'trayer' but it failed because there was a system tray already
> running. 'trayer another systray already running'
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about all
incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account. However,
while I didn't installed the original GNOME thingy, during testing
Cinnamon and Mate I installed mate-notification-daemon and I'll remove
it soon. It is active for Xfce too, try the Debian package
"notification-daemon" and you will be annoyed not only for new emails.
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