Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com> writes:

Hi Noorul:

> I was desperately looking for something like this
> http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/gnus-notifications.
>
> I thought of setting this up but I could not make it work.

It sound like you haven't started up dbus. Put this in your ~/.profile:

   # DBus
   eval `dbus-launch`
   export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

Cheers,
Charles

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