Gmail Notifier for Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on December 1st, 2006
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CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages. Each message can be opened directly in a browser window, and many common Gmail operations (marking as read, archiving, deleting or reporting as spam) can be carried out on messages directly within CheckGmail, without the need to use the Gmail web interface.
Installing checkgmail in Ubuntu
For Ubuntu Dapper Users
Add this repository in Ubuntu Dapper
You need to edit the source list file and add the following lines
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org dapper main dupdate french
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org ubuntu main dupdate french
Save the changes and exit
You need to update source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install checkgmail using the following command
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
For Ubuntu Edgy Users
CheckGmail is now part of the Ubuntu Universe packages. Therefore make sure you add Universe repositories into your sources.list file
Install checkgmail using the following command
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
This will complete the installation part and now you need to run the application for this you need to press Alt+F2 you should see the following screen
Now you need to click on “Run with file” you should see the following screen here you need to select your checkgmail from /usr/bin/checkgmail and click ok
Once you select the checkgmail application you can see the following screen and click on “Run”
Now you should see the following screen here you need to select your gmail account details,how frequency you want to check your gmail,gmail system tray option etc and click ok
Here is the example how you can see the gmail notifier once you receive an email in your gmail account
Now you need to run your application after restarting for this you need to go to System—>Preferences—>Sessions
You should see the following screen and here you need to click on “Add”
Now you should see the following screen here you need to click on “Browse”
Here you need to select your checkgmail application from /usr/bin/checkgmail and click on open
Now you can see the following screen once you select your application and click ok
That’s it now your checkgmail application will be starting whenever you start your system
December 6th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Is there a way to check multiple gmail boxes?
January 26th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Just wanted to say thanks for the info. For someone making the leap into Linux, this was a good starting point in a number of ways.
March 18th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I also wanted to thank you for this clear set of instructions. Easy as pie, no redundant explanation.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Thanks for the info!
April 25th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Thank you for this guide. As a new user of Ubuntu, i found this pretty useful.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Thank you for this very useful program. I was using a different checker, but yours is better.
I like your instructions; they’re very easy to understand.
August 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Excellent! Thanks for the great instructions… even I can follow! I tried others before (the Ubuntu Starterguide) but they were not as well written as yours! Thanks for your time & efforts to share these!!!
September 14th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Very nice!
Everything I needed!
Thanks!
May 10th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Thank you!
May 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Thanks,this is very useful!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Thank you for this clear instruction
July 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Thanks so much for the guide.
As #2 said, the guide was helpful to me in a number of ways as a new ubuntu user!
July 19th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Very nice indeed.
However, I can not log into my gmail account since the message goes something like ‘not correct username or password’.
What could be wrong?
P.S. Ubuntu 8.04
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
The same problem over here. A few weeks ago didn’t had this problem, even though then, like now, I used Ubuntu 8.04
Is there an update?
July 27th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
same problem here.
the login failed.
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ubuntu 8.04
August 25th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Same problem. Incorrect username or password.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Super, thanks a lot! Great Walkthrough!
Fun being a newbie at Linux…
December 1st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hi – Excellent set of instructions! I wish the entire Linux community would learn to publish useful instructions like these.
Kudos to you!
January 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I have the same problem as mentioned by other users, “Incorrect username or password”. How can this be fixed?
February 20th, 2009 at 7:31 am
For those who have problem with incorrect username/password… try excluding @gmail.com from the username
March 31st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
thx for the info, very easy to et sup once you follow those steps
April 11th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Still i have the problem
incorrect user name and password.. I tried without @gmail.com part but still it doesn’t work..
October 1st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Guys, what happened? Running Jaunty and it is a no go here.
Incorrect username and password. And I know they are correct. Same for username w/ @gmail.com and without. Come on! This is so much better than the other applets out there… but they work!
October 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I had the same problem. The solution is to start this app with “checkgmail -no_cookies” command. It works for me. You can track this bug in this topic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkgmail/forums/forum/463626/topic/3405947/index/ .
October 5th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Actually, problem for people who know their credentials are correct is that this program is poorly written. Those of us whose passwords are very strong strings, which include what are escape characters will fail. I am not sure if it is a failure to HTML entity encode, or the language of the string handler in the applet, but when I changed my password to not use the ‘ character , everything worked again.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:52 am
I was having the same problem suddenly with the login system and my password isn’t overly complex. The -no_cookies option did the trick, thanks!
October 25th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
checkgmail -no_cookies is compulsory for Jaunty, doesn’t work without it, thanks Joe & thanks to the author
November 12th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
sudo apt-get install cgmail
nicer, simpler and safer.