Comments on: Get CheckGMail to Use Ubuntu Notification System Easily

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Right-click on the tray icon ;)

By: guest

guest — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:45:00 +0000

where to find the preferences of CheckGmail?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:33:00 +0000

Same here, you can check, delete, archive, spam anything with their mail popups. I’m not sure if this overwrites those options, maybe it just tells you when mail comes, I have to check it out still. But I love checkgmail compared to the competition

By: yuretsz

yuretsz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:05:00 +0000

You should install libnotify-bin to make this work
sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin

By: bhm

bhm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:47:00 +0000

Same thing on Jaunty.

By: scribu

scribu — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:00 +0000

But I like checkgmail’s notifications! They let me get rid of uniteresting mail without opening the browser.

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:49:00 +0000

I prefer mail-notification
It requires some tweaking in gconf to work with notify-osd, but it works with more webmail providers.

By: 5nak3

5nak3 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:00 +0000

Yeah pretty much what I said…although maybe my English was not clear enough. Sorry about that.

I’m not sure if this was a karmic only issue of would other versions of ubuntu such as Hardy and Jaunty also require libnotify-bin as opposed to libnotify

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:23:00 +0000

Nevermind…I fixed it. I just went online and found a picture to download and save into the specified file. I found this one to be a little more appealing: http://www.ddotomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gmail_logo_stylized.png

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:20:00 +0000

To get it to work for me (aside from the Gmail picture) I had to type sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin then finish the rest of the tutorial.

By: 5nak3

5nak3 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:16:00 +0000

I believe the problem if you are running Karmic is that libnotify as far as I could tell does not exist in the repo’s instead I had to install libnotify-bin for this to work.

When I was running sudo apt-get install libnotify the terminal would respond with such a package does not exist. And with the already installed libnotify packages namely:

pidgin-libnotify
python-notify
libnotify1
libnotify0.4-cil

the command above would not work and thus the notification would not show.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:15:00 +0000

How do I get the picture to work? It doesn’t work for me….

By: Tom Hare

Tom Hare — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:48:00 +0000

Oh yeah… oops

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:43:00 +0000

I know, just teasin :)

By: d0od

d0od — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:36:00 +0000

I can’t get this to work so i didn’t spot that. It’s purely an oversight on Tom’s part i’m sure, just add the word ‘have’ to the command like so: -

if [ %m = 1 ] ; then mess=”Message”; else mess=”Messages”; fi; notify-send “You Have %m New $mess” -i ~/bin/gmail.png

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:28:00 +0000

“You 1 new message?”

How about “You HAVE 1 new message” :)

By: Seif Sallam

Seif Sallam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:16:00 +0000

why do you need this when you have Docky, its buggy and no integration with Do yet but i still love it