Gmail Notifier for your Ubuntu Desktop
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CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages. Each message can be opened directly in a browser window, and many common Gmail operations (marking as read, archiving, deleting or reporting as spam) can be carried out on messages directly within CheckGmail, without the need to use the Gmail web interface.
Installing checkgmail in Ubuntu
For Ubuntu Dapper Users
Add this repository in Ubuntu Dapper
You need to edit the source list file and add the following lines
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org dapper main dupdate french
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org ubuntu main dupdate french
Save the changes and exit
You need to update source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install checkgmail using the following command
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
For Ubuntu Edgy Users
CheckGmail is now part of the Ubuntu Universe packages. Therefore make sure you add Universe repositories into your sources.list file
Install checkgmail using the following command
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
This will complete the installation part and now you need to run the application for this you need to press Alt+F2 you should see the following screen
Now you need to click on "Run with file" you should see the following screen here you need to select your checkgmail from /usr/bin/checkgmail and click ok
Once you select the checkgmail application you can see the following screen and click on "Run"
Now you should see the following screen here you need to select your gmail account details,how frequency you want to check your gmail,gmail system tray option etc and click ok
Here is the example how you can see the gmail notifier once you receive an email in your gmail account
Now you need to run your application after restarting for this you need to go to System--->Preferences--->Sessions
You should see the following screen and here you need to click on "Add"
Now you should see the following screen here you need to click on "Browse"
Here you need to select your checkgmail application from /usr/bin/checkgmail and click on open
Now you can see the following screen once you select your application and click ok
That's it now your checkgmail application will be starting whenever you start your system
thx, this blog really helpfull for me..
thanks! excellent instructions.
Perfect “how to tutorial” for new ubuntu users. Thanks a lot for your time to prepare such helpful tutorial for us.
my email password has a character “@” in it which the program prompt me as unauthorized user.
this tutorial helps me installing it perfectly. thank you very much
The new name and path to the executable in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 is
/usr/bin/gmail-notify
Will this program support multiple gmail account checking?
Thanks!!!! Much appreciated! I’m a newbie to Ubuntu and this really helped.
Having made the switch from Windows7 to Ubuntu, this has saved me a load of work. Thanks!
Thanks very much!
Also I can confirm these instructions work on 9.04
🙂
Great work thx. This application fit my needs perfectly.
how do you get it to make a sound when new email is notified?
Just wanted to say a quick thanks for this tutorial. It’s people like you that continue to encourage me to use Ubuntu and help support others in the future.
Thanks.
Oh yeah – this works fine in 9.10. The only difference is:
System — Preferences — Startup Applications.
Hi,
Does one need to insert the @gmail.com with the user name, because I get an error either way?
i think it doesn’t work if are using a proxy, right?
Hi,
Does it work with google/app address like ([email protected])