[Linux] Journal.

Gnome GTray is a nifty little notifier for new mails in your gmail account. However it’s written in ruby and requires a couple of non-standard packages. Apart from the prerequisite packages stated on the website which are:

$ apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby libgconf2-ruby libgtk2-ruby ruby-gnome2

I also needed to install

$ apt-get install ruby1.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Which was necessary to compile and install ruby-gtktrayicon. BTW, wajig whichpkg file is useful for finding out which (un)installed package provides the file.

Now we can download and install
ruby-gtktrayicon.

Finally you can install gtray, but before running gtray you need add to panel->utility->notification area. Now from shell run gtray which should dock a gmail tray icon in the notification area.

There is also a windows version of gtray and a firefox extension called gmail notifier which will display status of gmail as an icon in the browser.

UPDATE: GTray stopped working with changes in gmail, so I have switched to Mail Notifier which also has support for GMail in gnome 2.8.

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