On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Giles Coochey giles@coochey.net wrote:
On 25/01/2013 15:00, Toralf Lund wrote:
Hi.
Does anyone know of a way to add a "new mail" notification icon to the panel/system tray under CentOS 6? On CentOS 5, I used the "mail-notification" software package provided by the Fedora "EPEL" distribution, but this is gone from the version 6 repository, and the one from version 5 won't install just like that due to dependency issues. Maybe it's possible to resolve those, but I'm wondering if that's the way to go, or if there is a better alternative these days.
In the old days we used biff... then xbiff came along... new fangled things!
Something like: http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~**cmsps/freeScripts/xbiff.pyhttp://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~cmsps/freeScripts/xbiff.py
Don't some MUAs come with small panel applets for this?
@Toralf:
I have Evolution Mail on my work desktop (not CentOS) set to display pop-ups (using libnotify). I don't recall though if I had to do anything more than click a check box in Evolution's preferences.
You might consider having your MUA do the notifying rather than having an applet go check your inbox for you.
It isn't so common to receive email locally anymore, most people are using remote mail servers.
-- Regards,
Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles@coochey.net
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