NAME
gmail-notify - A Gmail Notifier
SYNOPSIS
gmail-notify
DESCRIPTION
gmail-notify Gmail Notifier is a Linux alternative for the notifier
program released by Google, it is written in Python and provides an
attractive and simple way to check for new mail messages.
Open the notifier.conf file in your favourite text editor and edit the
configuration options to match your system. Below is an explanation of
each option: (See notifer.conf.sample located in the
/usr/share/doc/gmail-notify directory for a helpful example)
gmailusername - fairly self explanatory, must be without the @gmail.com
at the end
gmailpassword - obvious
browserpath - this is the full path to the browser that you want Gmail
Notifier to open when you click the popup to goto your Gmail inbox
voffset - this is the amount (in pixels) the popup will be displaced
from the bottom of the screen, it will almost definately need changing
to suit your system, ideally, you want it to look like it came out of
the bar along the bottom of the screen the best way to adjust it is to
run it initially with the default value and then add/remove from it
then test again. Higher values result in the popup appearing higher up
the screen.
hoffset - same as above only this is the amount the popup will be
displaced from the side of the screen. Higher values will displace it
more to the left of the screen.
checkinterval - this is how often Gmail Notifier will check for new
mail (in ms), do NOT set it lower than 20000 (20 seconds), or the
libgmail library will not keep up, causing many strange side effects.
If you need to check your mail more than once every 20 seconds, then
chances are your famous and don’t have time to read your mail anyway.
animationdelay - this is the amount of time (in ms) that Gmail Notifier
will wait before moving the popup up one step, when the popup is
popping up, to high values will cause the animation to be jerky, to low
values will cause tearing at the bottom of the popup. 15ms seems about
right. Only small adjustments are necercery, best thing is to leave it
alone.
popuptimespan - this is the amount of time before the popup will
dissappear again after popping up you can set this to whatever you
want
Web Page
http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
John Winter <wintersoft@gmail.com>
May 31, 2006 gmail-notify(1)