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Gnus and new mail notification
From: |
Yuri D'Elia |
Subject: |
Gnus and new mail notification |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:33:12 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
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.
- Gnus and new mail notification,
Yuri D'Elia <=