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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
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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!