On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:09 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200 > Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > > > Sharon Kimble: > > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > > > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new > > > emails, nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this > > > 'tray'? Can it be used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's? > > > > I don't know about fluxbox, but most window managers reserve space for > > the tray in some kind of panel or status bar. Your real question > > probably is which application puts the information you need into the > > tray. One example: > > > > $ apt-cache search tray icon mail > > checkgmail - alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds > > claws-mail-trayicon - Notification area plugin for Claws Mail > > xul-ext-firetray - system tray extension for Thunderbird/Firefox > > alike apps zim - graphical text editor based on wiki technologies > > > The notification tray is completely separate from the system tray, > and is I think, a separate package, and that’s what I'm looking for, or > something similar. > > > If your window manager lacks a tray area you can try the package > > "trayer". > > There already is a system tray in fluxbox, and even though I use tint2 > as my panel, it still has a system tray in it. I did try running > 'trayer' but it failed because there was a system tray already > running. 'trayer another systray already running' > > Thanks > Sharon.
I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about all incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account. However, while I didn't installed the original GNOME thingy, during testing Cinnamon and Mate I installed mate-notification-daemon and I'll remove it soon. It is active for Xfce too, try the Debian package "notification-daemon" and you will be annoyed not only for new emails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377796753.3536.74.camel@archlinux
