Ne email notification

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 08:05 +0100, Tim wrote:
> I have just moved from using Xubuntu to SolydX, in both distro's I use 
> Thunderbird as my email client. In Xubuntu when a new email arrived I 
> used to get a notification but it was an XFCE notification not a 
> Thunderbird one, in Solydx when I get a new email I get the Thunderbird 
> notification. I don't believe I was running the mail watcher plugin on 
> Xubuntu as I never had the icon on the panel and I never configured any 
> program to alert me to new emails arriving. Does anybody know how the 
> new email notification works in Xubuntu as I would like the same to work 
> Solydx?

Any self-responsibility? You're using Linux!

https://startpage.com/ > Search term: xfce4 notificatins
It did work without correcting the typo ;).

First hit: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-notifyd
Assumed you want start learning to become self-responsible, you perhaps
want to read the fourth hit:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications

Sure, Xubuntu does use upstart instead of systemd, other Debian based
distros likely use SysVinit, so don't try to start the D-Bus service the
way described by the Arch Wiki, but most, if not all of the other
information is good for every distro.