Looking for mailwatch app

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-08-29, Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 16:05 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>  2) I keep my panels hidden, which means I can't see the
>>>     mailwatch icons.  Maybe I can create a separate panel just
>>>     for the mailwatch plugins and leave that one showing.
>> Use mailwatch and tell it to use notify-send to show a notification
>> message when an email arrives so you can keep your panels hidden.
> 
> OK, I give up, what's notify-send supposed to do? I can't seem
> to find any docs on notify-send.  There's no manpage (at least
> not on gentoo). Running this does nothing:
>   
>  $ notify-send summary "this is the body"
> 
> The output of notify-send --help is pretty cryptic, and
> googling it didn't really find aything very instructive.

Ah, sorry... you need to have a notification daemon installed, though I 
could've sworn installing libnotify on Gentoo would pull one in. 
notification-daemon-xfce, notification-daemon, or xfce4-notifyd should 
all work.  The first two are packaged by Gentoo.

	-b