GoogSysTray Puts Google Reader, GMail, Wave notifications in your panel tray

By , Published January 27, 2010

Version: 1.1.4

GoogSysTray is a notification area application that alerts you to updates for your various Google services, such as GMail, Google Reader and Google Wave.

Application to get Google Reader updates in Ubuntu System Panel
Features
GoogSysTray allows for each of its supported services notifications to be manually configured. Want an icon? Check. Want to display unread count? Check. Only want e-mails with certain tag to alert you? Check.

The following services are currently supported: -

  • GMail – Choose specific tags or folders to be notified about
  • Google Reader – Specify number of unread items needed before alert
  • Google Voice – Send SMS
  • Google Calendar – Set check frequency
  • Google Wave – Set notification options on unread messages

Setting Up Your Google Account In GoogSysTray
Setting up your Google Account in GST is a quick affair.

  • Right click the ‘G’ icon in the system tray
  • Choose ‘Preferences’
  • In the ‘General Tab’ click ‘Add’ in the top right-hand corner
  • Enter your Google Account details in the pop-up dialogue window.

If it from the ‘General’ tab that you can toggle services on/off.

Resources
Whilst running with 4 accounts configured, all showing icons, the application was using around 14MB RAM. Fairly light.

Download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/googsystray/files/googsystray-1.1.4/googsystray_1.1.4_all.deb/download

Installation
Double-click on the .deb file to install and launch it, once installation has completed, from the Applications > Internet sub-menu.

Thanks to aNoble & MB
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://adam.obledesign.com/ aNoble

    Thanks for posting this. I’ve been wanting something like this for a while.

    There is also a deb by the way:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/googsystray/files/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/googsystray/files/googsystray-1.1.4/googsystray_1.1.4_all.deb/download

  • Anonymous

    am man this is awesome i’ve been using one number for google chrome but i like this better since i dont have to have browser open to get notification and i can reply to google voice messages through the pop up box.

  • Mohan

    Dang I keep forgetting to log onto Google Wave… :)

  • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

    I wish it’d use libnotify (= notify-osd or notification-daemon) instead of its own pop-ups :/

    €dit: sry, I seem to have missed how it works in the first place. It’s exactly how I want it to be. Unobstrusive. Love it. Thanks a lot. :)

    • Anonymous

      yeah i prefer the program’s popup better since you can reply in them. i hope ubuntu incorporates a feature like this in the future.

    • Nacho

      I installed it yestarday. Nice app.
      Here is a tip: when a new mails arribes the app lets you execute a command. If you install libnotify-bin you can execute notify-send -i “New mail”. This shows the standar ubuntu popup.

      • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

        Thank you very much. Makes it much nicer (at least in my opinion)

      • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

        hm. Do I have to restart or logoff in order for it to work?
        mine says notify-send -i “text”

  • http://livinginagoogleworld.blogspot.com/ Jonathan Frederickson

    I’ve been using this for a while. Great app.

  • Anonymous

    this program stores your password in plain text you can find it in the file name .googsystrayrc

  • Anonymous

    Seems cool but I still find Specto much more useful…have y’all tried using Specto?

  • http://vegbrasil.com/ Vinicius

    What theme are you using in the screenshot?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Elementary – do a search in the search box above and you’ll find it on here :)

  • Bill

    awesome. thanks

  • http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip

    Can this be added to Unity to show unread GoogleMail emails in Unity without needing an email client, or can you suggest a solution to get this. Thanks