Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak <at> rogers.com> writes:
>
> On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 17:28 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> > > Evolution has that feature. Under Edit-> preferences -> Mail Preferences
> > > -> General. You can choose no notification or various forms of
> > > notification. Not an icon though.
> >
> > Do these options work for you? I've tried quite a few times, but I have
> > never seen them work.
>
> They don't. Not sure what the problem is, but having a built-in
> notification feature would be nice. All of these external apps are a
> pain in the ass.
>
> Come to think of it...Evolution is becoming a pain in the ass.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
>
(agreed.)
I, instead, add a 'pipe-to-program' filter for mails that are deemed important
to me, with either one of these two as the program description:
notify-send --type=Information --urgency=low --expire-time=4000 "New Ham"
"`grep -m 1 ^From: | sed -e 's/\([\"\<\>]\)//g'`"
or
notify-panel "New Ham `grep -m 1 ^From: | sed -e 's/\([\"\<\>]\)//g'`"
The notify-send 'program' is simply a one-liner script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# notify-panel:
# call zenity to add a notification icon up on the panel
# for each new piece of ham
# (launches as a background process, and returns immediately)
zenity --notification \
--window-icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/stock/net/stock_mail-accounts.png \
--text "$1" &
