Email notification widget awesomewm

VanillaFunk · 2013-12-24 06:20:41

so i had seen this done before not sure if there is a vicious widget to handle this... i will do all the research i need to in my spare time. however wasnt sure if anyone else had accomplished this thus me having someone to bounce ideas off of.

i spend a lot of time working on my main moniter but dont want to have to switch tags around to check emails... so i was thinking of creating a widget similar to a pacman widget that checked my imap account every 10 minutes or so and if i had new emails would display the number of unread ones. i use claws mail and im pretty sure it can be done.

again got a lot to look up just wasnt sure if anyone had done something similar

nrq · 2014-01-07 20:52:37

Here, look at the "Network and Internet" section and you will see some widgets to get email notifications. Cheers.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/User_C … ed_Widgets

GE · 2014-01-07 21:00:42

I don't know a thing about Awesome, but Claws Mail has an option (command line) to query unread message count. See claws-mail man page.

Just a thought - I would go the route of creating a simple GTK tray application instead of an Awesome widget, but I guess that's just because (again) I don't know anything about Awesome itself.

Last edited by GE (2014-01-07 21:02:20)

VanillaFunk · 2014-01-08 02:31:48

thnx a bunch nrq i found the python script + rc.lua version and it works like a charm much appreciated figured id post which one i used in case others find the need.

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#1 2013-12-24 06:20:41

Email notification widget awesomewm

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