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From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Gnus and new mail notification
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:33:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y67evj9j.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> (raw)

I wasn't happy with the existing new mail notification scripts that I've
found on emacswiki.

I've put together a new script, called "gnus-notify"[1], that can call
any arbitrary program when new messages are received. The default uses
the 'notify-send' program (part of libnotify's library) which creates
little popup messages. This is especially useful if you have virtual
desktops and leave Gnus running with gnus-demon.

The result (showing Gnus + awesomewm + libnotify-bin on Debian) is shown
here:

  http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/hacks/gnus-notify.png

You can also do arbitrary stuff by either setting a different
executable, or supplying an entirely new notification function.
Simply read the commentary in the source.

gnus-notify.el is available at:

  http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/hacks/gnus-notify.el

Merry christmas :)

[1] I know there's already a gnus-notify.el script, but I wasn't able to
    come up with a better name.

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-24 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-24 23:33 Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2010-12-25 13:10 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-25 15:26   ` Yuri D'Elia
2010-12-25 21:52     ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-26 20:11 ` Yuri D'Elia
2011-01-02 12:02   ` Philipp Haselwarter
     [not found] <mailman.26.1293233609.7272.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-25 13:25 ` e20100633
2010-12-26 18:26   ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-26 18:59     ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-25 20:31 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-25 21:55   ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-25 22:56   ` Yuri D'Elia
     [not found]   ` <mailman.13.1293317806.24913.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-25 23:19     ` Richard Riley
2010-12-26 16:22       ` Yuri D'Elia
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1.1293380566.6185.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-27  8:11         ` Richard Riley
2010-12-27  9:25           ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2.1293441979.18751.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-27 13:30             ` Richard Riley
2010-12-27 15:39               ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-27 16:04               ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]               ` <mailman.8.1293465927.24495.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-27 16:42                 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-27 17:47                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.19.1293472126.24495.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-27 18:11                     ` Richard Riley
2010-12-27 19:09                       ` Thierry Volpiatto

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