This article is an extension for my Replace Evolution with Thunderbird completely in Ubuntu article. Maverick users might find that the Indicator Applet extension of Thunderbird doesn’t function as it should in Maverick. If you want to completely move from Evolution to Thunderbird, you probably want to finish the steps I’ve mentioned there first.
Get Cloudsn
I’m keeping a watch on the extension’s launchpad page and will let you folks know as soon as there’s an update.
Now. I got the perfect solution for you. Try the “Cloud Service Notifications” plugin. Add the PPA:
1 2 | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chuchiperriman/cloudsn sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade |
The launchpad page is here if you want to install in other ways:
https://launchpad.net/~chuchiperriman/+archive/cloudsn
Add the PPA, or download the .deb file if you want to test it out (I recommend you add the PPA if you want to get updates). It checks GMail, Google Reader, traditional IMAP/POP email accounts and a horde of other online services for new messages and integrates into the existing messaging applet beautifully.
What you probably want to do, is add your mail accounts to the Cloud Service Notifications settings, and in the ‘advanced’ tab when adding a service, you’ll see the field “Execute command when account is opened’. We want Thunderbird to be opened when we click on the respective mail accounts. We also want to bring it to focus if its already open. Type in the following in here.
1 | thunderbird; wmctrl -a thunderbird |
Note, I’m using wmctrl, a command line based Window Manager for Linux. If you don’t have it, install using:
1 | sudo apt-get install wmctrl |
The -a flag makes the window “thunderbird” window gain focus. Now, regardless of whether Thunderbird is open, you’ll get your notifications in the Messaging applet like so:
The Ubuntu Messaging applet with Cloudsn
Hope that helps. Thanks for the support people.
Tags: Window, Ubuntu, launchpad, thunderbird, maverick, file, mail accounts, ppa, service notifications
