[SLUG] Gnome notifications

[David Webster]

Stephen O'Neill wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Can anybody help me with notifications in gnome?
>
>The stimulus for this is that I want to know when I get a new mail in
>Thunderbird... Something like flashing the taskbar would be great, or an
>icon in the systray/notification area would do.
>
>I've played with mailwatch for gkrellm, it shows in gkrellm when I get
>new mail but I can't get a visible alert.
>
>I tend to have sound off you see. Does anyone have any pointers?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Steve
>
>  
>
This does happen in Windows and on the Mac using the system addon 
Growler.  You could look if Gnome has a notification system, and if so 
see if you can write a Thunderbird extension which links to it.