mail-notification: need alert popup or icon
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Fri Jul 22 06:56:23 UTC 2005
Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
>> Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I am using fedora 4. I need an application that can alert me whenever
>> > i get a mail(pop3). I tried usinf mail notification. But it doesnt
>> > seem to work. I need something like a pop-up whenever i get a new mail
>> > or maybe an icon in the taskbar(like thunderbird has in windows) or
>> > maybe some animation in the taskbar like there used to be in fedora 3(
>> > a jumping penguin etc)
>> > I see that i can configure mail-notification to run a command whenever
>> > a new mail arrives. but i dont know what command to give here so that
>> > i can get the desired alert.
>> > thanks
>> > sid
>> >
>> If you're using KDE as your desktop environment then:
>> http://kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=231
>>
>
> I use gnome...is there an equivalent command for gnome??
>
gkrellm might be an option. It supports checking all kind of mailboxes.
Doesn't matter if you're using kde/gnome/whatever
Hth
Alex
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