Kära bullen
Jag använder checkgmail som berättar för mig när jag får mail. Det programmet är jättebra. Men på sistone när jag klickar på ikonen för att liksom snabböppna gmail i min webläsare, så kommer jag till gmails loginsida. Det är alltså inte som förut när man blir automatiskt inloggad.
Hur ska jag göra?

Jo, efter lite googlande fick jag fram detta, ändra i checkgmails preferences “Command to execute on clicking the tray icon” från standard ‘firefox %u’ till ‘firefox http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox’, så löser det problemet! Verkar som att checkgmails variabel %u inte längre genererar en korrekt url för gmail, eller något!

(Som vanligt var det inte personen i filmen som skrivit brevet.)

Appena ho installato CheckGmail e’ sorta l’esigenza di far accendere il LED blu del portatile che notifica la ricezione di una nuova email. Ero abituato a quando il file dove inserire lo zero e l’uno – a seconda si volesse spegnere o accendere il LED – era posizionato in /proc/acpi/asus/mled. Invece e’ cambiato.

Prima bastava inserire in uno script (o nell’apposito form di un programma come nel caso di CheckGmail):

echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/mled

per spegnere o:

echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/mled

per accendere il LED.

Ho notato invece che ora il percorso e’ /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/ e il file non e’ mled ma brightness. Quindi le due righe di prima diventano:

echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/brightness

e

echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/brightness

State attenti che molto probabilmente il vostro file brightness ha i permessi in scrittura solo per l’utente root, mentre per gli altri ha solo i permessi in lettura. Ovviamente dobbiamo estendere a tutti il permesso in scrittura per poter inserire lo zero o l’uno a seconda del caso. Avevo gia’ scritto come funzionano e come cambiare i permessi ai file e alle directory.

Apriamo un terminale, spostiamoci nella directory giusta:
$ cd /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:mail/
controlliamo i permessi:
$ ls -l

[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096  9 nov 08:48 brightness
[...]

Diamo dunque questo comando:
# chmod a+w brightness
controlliamo se i permessi sono stati assegnati correttamente:
$ ls -l

[...]
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4096  9 nov 08:48 brightness
[...]

Tenete presente che al riavvio del sistema i permessi verranno ripristinati. Quindi, o ripetiamo questa operazione ogni volta, oppure la facciamo fare in automatico. Per farla in automatico apriamo il file rc.local:
# nano /etc/rc.local
e inseriamo questo prima di exit 0:

---8<---
chmod a+w /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/brightness
---8<---

Perfetto.

Ora possiamo utilizzare quel file tranquillamente, facciamo subito una prova dal terminale:
$ echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:mail/brightness
e il LED dovrebbe ora essere acceso.

Spegniamolo con:
$ echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:mail/brightness
e andiamo a sistemarci CheckGmail e visto che ci siamo anche Thunderbird.

CHECKGMAIL – Apriamo le preferenze di CheckGmail e cerchiamo due form, il primo e’ “Comando da eseguire per le nuove mail“, qui ci inseriamo:

echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:mail/brightness

poi il campo subito sotto “Comando da eseguire quando non ci sono mail“, dove invece inseriremo:

echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:mail/brightness

Date l’OK e avete finito. Ogni volta che vi arrivera’ un’email al vostro account Gmail e CheckGmail lo rilevera’, ve lo comunichera’ con l’accensione del LED del vostro portatile oltre alla normale notifica a Desktop.

THUNDERBIRD/ICEDOVE – Adesso vediamo come far fare la stessa cosa anche con Thunderbird. Il modo piu’ semplice e’ quello di scaricarvi l’apposito add-ons. Si chiama Thunderled, scaricatelo e installatelo con la solita procedura di Thunderbird: Strumenti > Componenti aggiuntivi > Installa…

Una volta installato Thunderled dovete cercarlo nel vostro HD. Trovandosi in una directory nascosta, quando aprite il vostro gestore di file e directory (Nautilus, Konqueror, Thunar, o altro) dovete rendere visibili i file e le directory nascoste con [Ctrl] + [h].

Andiamo ora alla ricerca del file che ci serve, solitamente lo trovate in /home/UTENTE/.mozilla-thunderbird/BLABLABLA.default/extensions/

A questo punto vi trovate varie directory {BLABLABLA-BLABLABLA-BLABLABLA} tante quante sono le estensioni del vostro Thunderbird. Se Thunderled e’ stata l’ultima estensione ad essere installata con tutta probabilita’ la directory giusta e’ l’ultima. Per esserne certi apriamo la directory e leggiamo il file chrome.manifest.

Una volta accertato di trovarci nella giusta directory spostiamoci nella sottodirectory chrome. Troveremo il file thunderled.jar, che nonostante l’estensione e’ un semplice file ZIP. Dunque rinominiamolo (thunderled.zip) ed estraiamolo. Otterremo tre directory, entriamo in content/thunderled e apriamo il file overlay.js col nostro editor di testo.

Cerchiamo queste righe:

[...]
else{
        file.initWithPath("/bin/sh");
        if(x==1)
                var args = ["-c","echo 1 \> /proc/acpi/asus/mled"];
        else
                var args = ["-c","echo 0 \> /proc/acpi/asus/mled"];
        }
        var process = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
        process.init(file);
        process.run(false, args, args.length);
        }
[...]

e sostituiamole con queste:

---8<---
else{
        file.initWithPath("/bin/sh");
        if(x==1)
                var args = ["-c","echo 1 \> /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/brightness"];
        else
                var args = ["-c","echo 0 \> /sys/class/leds/asus::mail/brightness"];
        }
        var process = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
        process.init(file);
        process.run(false, args, args.length);
        }
---8<---

Salvate ed uscite. Adesso dovete ricreare l’archivio thunderled.zip e rinominarlo in thunderled.jar.

Finito. Da ora in poi ogni volta che Thunderbird scarichera’ una nuova email vi si accendera’ il LED del portatile.

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Qualche giorno fa stavo pensando tra me e me che per guardare se mi arriva un’email sul mio indirizzo Gmail e’ un po’ scomodo ogni volta dover accedere a Gmail. Mi sono dunque accorto che non avevo ancora un notificatore per Gmail sul mio desktop. Mancanza grave di questi tempi a quanto pare (nonostante si possa benissimo farne a meno).

Comunque ho deciso di installarne uno, ho optato per CheckGmail:
# apt-get install checkgmail

Poi ho impostato la varie opzioni e l’ho subito messo all’opera, ma lui per tutta risposta mi ha scritto:

401 Unauthorized

Ho cercato un po’ in giro per la rete e come soluzione davano questa:
$ checkgmail -update
che aggiorna il file checkgmail,

oppure quest’altra:
$ checkgmail -no_cookies
che avvia il programma con l’opzione no_cookies.

Sono soluzioni che non mi piacciono molto, allora ho cercato un po’ sul sito del programma e ho deciso di fare cosi’. Mi sono scaricato tutti i file e le directory necessarie in una directory:
$ svn co https://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/checkgmail checkgmail
poi mi sono spostato dentro quella directory:
$ cd checkgmail
e ho copiato il file eseguibile checkgmail nella directory /usr/bin/:
# sudo cp checkgmail /usr/bin/

Adesso funziona alla perfezione.

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A couple of days weeks ago CheckGmail stopped working with a Error: Incorrect username or password dialog. Looking through the CheckGmail sourcforge forums,  I ended up finding a solution.

If CheckGmail fails to autheciate your logins–  four possible solutions for fixing the authentication bug

1. The quick and dirty fix is to run CheckGmail with the -no_cookies flag. The drawback is that you lose some functionality (actions such as marking as spam and archiving). You’ll need to update your startup/menu/startup session item to start CheckGmail using this command flag. checkgmail -no_cookies
2. Download the latest development version of CheckGmail from SVN which includes a real fix for the recent 401 unauthorise issue.. A clever CheckGmail developer included an update feature for checkgmail for just a  circumstances just like this one In terminal, run:

Voila, fixed.

Quand vous ouvrez debian, peu de programmes sont lancés automatiquement au démarrage. Si vous aviez l’habitude, sous windows, d’avoir par exemple skype, msn (wlm) lancés au démarrage et vous voulez avoir une configuration pareille sous debian c’est simple à réaliser. La méthode la plus simple est à suivante: pour commencer ouvrez système -> préférences -> sessions. Sous la fenêtre ouverte choisissez le premier volet ouvert par défaut “programmes au démarrage” et faites “ajouter”. Dans la fenêtre qui s’ouvre ce qui nous intéresse c’est seulement “commande” les autres nom et commentaire peuvent rester vides. Dans “commande” vous devez écrire:/usr/bin/et ici le nom du programme qui vous intéresse. Par exemple j’utilise “checkgmail” pour vérifier l’arrivée des emails sur gmail. J’ai inscrit comme suit: “/usr/bin/checkgmail”. Pour tous les autres programmes qui vous intéressent il suffit de chercher leur nom dans le dossier “/usr/bin/…” et c’est fait .

AllTray – minimizeaza orice in zona de notificare

CheckGmail -notificarea emailurilor venite

Gufw Firewall – securitate pentru  linux

1. Mail Notification
2. KBiff
3. Korn
   
4. CheckGmail
5. KGmailNotifier

I read about Dropbox, a (free!) file synchronization program which works in Windows, OSX (apple macs), and Linux. I installed in on my Ubuntu based laptop and it runs perfectly in Gnome. KDE4 seems to not run it automatically, though. But I haven’t really tried to get it to work there yet. Unfortunately when I tried to install it on my wife’s computer it only seemed to run for the Administrator, so under my login I couldn’t access the files in it – not cool! But you can still access the synch files via the dropbox website, so that’ll work until the Vista version gets all the bugs worked out. Overall, I like it a lot. The only negative, so far, is that it only has 2gb of online storage available.

And in other news I read in the latest edition (no. 17) of Full Circle about a email checking program for gnome, called checkgmail. You can grab it out of the repos with this command:

sudo apt-get install checkgmail

Od pewnego czasu gchekgmail i checkgmail się obraziły i przestały współpracować z pocztą od google, chyba paczkujący lub autorzy powyższych programów zaspali z nowymi wersjami. Problem objawia się brakiem możliwości zalogowania w celu sprawdzenia poczty, błąd autoryzacji lub po prostu błąd 401.

W checkgmail’u żeby rozwiązać ten problem trzeba ściągnąć ten skrypt :

http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/checkgmail/checkgmail

dać mu prawa do wykonywania

chmod +x checkgmail

i skopiować go do /usr/bin

sudo cp checkgmail /usr/bin/checkgmail

Najnowsza checkgmail z SVN :
cd /tmp
svn co https://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/checkgmail checkgmail
cd checkgmail
sudo cp checkgmail /usr/bin

Najnowszy kcheckgmail :
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kcheckgmail/kcheckgmail-0.5.7.5.tar.bz2

CheckGmail is the Blackberry of the Linux world that relatively is still unknown to most Linux users. Basically, CheckGmail is a task bar Gmail notifier primarily developed by Owen Marshall that makes checking email a task that doesn’t even require for you to actually check your mail most of the time. A click within CheckGmail is all that is needed. If for some reason you are wondering, CheckGmail works with the best and biggest email service – Gmail. The great thing about Gmail is that it works with any POP3 server, allowing you to consolidate your email accounts. You can even check your email on Gmail hosted domains and run multiple instances of CheckGmail if you have multiple Gmail accounts. Once you learn about this great application you will have another reason to switch to Linux. If you are already are on the Linux platform, you will probably install it after reading this review.

The Windows based Gmail notifier created by Google only notifies you of the fact that you have new incoming email. CheckGmail on the other hand provides you with email notification, the first few characters of the email and an unprecedented message management system. This message management functionality is what makes CheckGmail a must for me. Instead of opening your mailbox to find Viagra spam, you only have to read the first line of the email in your CheckGmail notification pop-up to see if it is indeed spam and then upon confirmation you simply have to click on Report spam. If you get an email from a site that automatically sends you emails that you do not want to be bothered with, you can click on Delete, mark the email as read or archive the email. Having a conversation with someone? Click on the message title to display the full message within CheckGmail’s pop-up, or click open to display the message in your browser. To view messages within CheckGmail requires for you to install a few dependencies described later on in this review. If you have multiple messages, the notification pop-up box will increase in size to accommodate for the extra messages leaving you with the same message option choices for each email. If you want to access you actual Gmail account, you can at any time by clicking on the on the CheckGmail envelope in the task bar. Right-clicking on the CheckGmail envelope will bring up a menu that let’s you check your email before the preset interval, undo your last CheckGmail action, compose new email, set-up your preferences, restart CheckGmail and of course quit.

Installing CheckGmail is relatively easy, here I will use a Ubuntu install as an example. Depending on what Linux distribution you are using, the following may not apply. In this case different install options are available in the Download section in CheckGmail’s website. For this example I will be using a Debian package that Sandro Tosi maintains which is used by Ubuntu and all other Debian based Linux distributions:

A) To begin, download CheckGmail Debian package from here:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/checkgmail
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on all in the bottom to download Checkgmail.

B) Double-click on the file that you have just downloaded. Ubuntu will now inform you that there is already an older version of CheckGmail in their repositories, install the new one you downloaded (1.13 at the time of me writing this) anyways.

C) Once you have completed the installation go into the main menu, then System, then Preferences and then Sessions. Once you have the Sessions window open, click on Add, in the Name field write CheckGmail, in the Command field write checkgmail using small caps, click on OK, click on Close and then reboot.

D) Once you have rebooted you will be asked for your username and password, signifying a successful installation. You are finished.

These are all the steps that an average user requires to take to install CheckGmail.

If you are an intermediate Linux user or better, you can take the following steps to enable the viewing of your messages within the CheckGmail notification window and password encryption.

A) You first have to install libsexy and Gtk2-sexy by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install libsexymm2

B) Now install the dependency that is required for the encryption of your password by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install libcrypt-simple-perl

C) Reboot for the changes to take into effect.

Once your have rebooted, CheckGmail will now ask you for your password again so that it can encrypt it using the new files we have just installed. After completing these steps, you have enabled the full functionality of CheckGmail.

CheckGmail is surprisingly user intuitive for a Linux application that is not mainstream yet, and configuring it is a snap. Once you open your Preferences window you will have 5 panes displayed. The first pane in the top left allows you to change your username and password, the second pane below allows you to change the default language, the third pane below pane below it allows you to manage external commands which further enhance CheckGmail’s functionality, the fourth pane in the top right allows you to check the interval at which your email is checked and the fifth pain below it allows you to manage your system tray icon. The external commands that can be run in conjunction with CheckGmail allow you to use the email LED that is built-in to your computer, play a sound when new email arrives, and have your Num Lock LED flash upon new email arrival; instructions on how to perform these functions can be found in CheckGmail’s FAQ. For those of you who have multiple Labels in Gmail, notification of these emails can now be displayed at your desired notification interval even if you have your filter is set to bypass your inbox. In addition, in the fifth pane you can replace the notification icons in the system tray with any image that you would like, you will be able to set the display interval of your notification pop-up and set the background image of the tray icon.

If you are not impressed with CheckGmail’s functionality by now, put down the keyboard, give-up on email and head down to your local post office. CheckGmail is a testament to the open source community that displays its’ power and innovation that large corporations cannot always accomplish and most dream of. You will see that living without CheckGmail can be a frustrating experience thanks to the constant launching of your browser and the associated lag. That doesn’t sound too bad, but if you try CheckGmail you will see how indispensable and convenient it really is. Am I exaggerating? What other email notifier is as configurable, allows you to run multiple instances of itself, allows you to check email on Gmail hosted domains and provides you with CheckGmail’s message management all in one package?

Almost all of the hardware on the Asus M50Sv-A1 works out of the box after Ubuntu’s installation is complete. There are none the less a few tweaks that are needed to be performed and few drivers that are needed to be installed. The screens brightness can’t be increased, the Nvidia driver is not installed, the webcam driver is not installed, the fingerprint reader driver is not installed, the email LED is non-functional, the microphone is not enabled by default, the hard drive has a firmware glitch, and the speakers don’t mute when the headphones are plugged in. This short installation tutorial is intended to save you the time and grief associated with searching for each particular solution on the internet.

1. Screen Brightness

The ambient light sensor is the cause of the dim screen, we’ll have to turn it off. To fix this we will have to create a shell script that will be run on boot up that will turn of the ambient light sensor.

A) Open Terminal (Menu->Accessories), and type the following:
sudo nano brightness

B) Now paste the following in the Terminal window:
#!/bin/sh
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/ls_switch

C) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

D) Now we will copy our new shell script to the appropriate directory, make it executable and add the following links by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo mv brightness /etc/init.d
and then
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/brightness
and then
sudo update-rc.d brightness defaults 90

E) Reboot, and you will have regained control of your brightness level.

2. Nvidia Driver

Your screen resolution will be limited to 800×600 without the appropriate drivers. Thanks to Alberto Milone’s Envy the whole process is automated for you, with the only requirement being an internet connection.

A) First we’ll need to update Ubuntu’s repositories by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get update

B) Now we’ll need to install Envy by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

C) Next we’ll need to execute Envy by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo envyng -g

D) Select Nvidia on the left side, now click on Install the Nvidia driver (Manual Selection of the Driver), select 169.12, and finally click Apply.

E) Once the installation is completed, reboot and you will once again have a crisp screen.

3. Webcam Driver

The webcam if attempted to be used will crash any application that is trying to access it by default. Thanks to the great tutorial by Bill Giannikos the process of installing your Asus uvc webcam driver is relatively easy.

A) First we’ll need to install the files needed to build the driver by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion linux-headers-`uname -r`

B) Now we will build the driver by typing the following commands in Terminal:
cd /usr/src
and then
sudo svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
and then
cd trunk
and then
sudo make
and then
sudo cp -a uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/

C) Reboot, and your webcam will now be working.

4. Fingerprint Reader Driver

The fingerprint reader is especially useful in Linux as you are asked for your password before completing any change within the operating system. None the less, I would still not recommend for you to install the fingerprint reader driver due to its’ unstable nature and poor quality. The guide provided by Karol Krizka solved the problem of installing this driver.

A) First we’ll need to add the driver source to our software repository by typing the following in Terminal to open the sources list:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

B) Now scroll to the end of the file and paste the following line there:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/madman2k/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse

C) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

D) Update the source list by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo aptitude update

E) Install the fingerprint reader driver by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo aptitude install fprint-demo libpam-fprint libfprint

F) Enroll your fingerprint by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo fprint_demo

G) Click on Enroll and swipe your finger.

H) Now we will have to tell Ubuntu when to use your fingerprint by editing the fingerprint reader driver’s configuration file by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/common-auth

I) Paste the following in the file at the end:
auth sufficient pam_fprint.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok_secure

J) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

H) Reboot, and you will be now scanning your finger instead of typing your password each time.

5. Email LED

Having a LED notifying you of incoming emails is quite handy, especially if you are not constantly by your computer. In this step I will provide you with instructions, showing you how to enable the email LED to work with the best Gmail notifier available – CheckGmail, a function that even Windows cannot even provide.

A) Follow the instructions provided by me in this tutorial to install CheckGmail:
http://seethisnowreadthis.com/2008/05/20/checkgmail-linuxs-blackberry/

B) Open the CheckGmail preferences and paste the following in the Command to execute on new mail field:
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/asus:mail/brightness

C) Now paste the following in the Command to execute for no mail field:
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus:mail/brightness

D) Without giving the right permissions CheckGmail will not be able to turn on the LED. To do this we must type the following in Terminal:
gksudo nautilus

E) Navigate to the following folder by pasting the following in Location field in the newly open File Browser:
/sys/class/leds/asus:mail
Press Enter.

F) Right-click on the file brightness, and select Properties.

G) Select the Permissions tab.

H) Click on root in the drop-down menu besides Owner and select yourself.

I) Without rebooting you should have now have the email LED notifying you of incoming email.

6. Microphone

By default the microphone is not enabled in enabled in the Volume Control menu. This problem will require the least effort.

A) Righ-click on the speaker in the task bar and select Open Volume Control.

B) Select Edit from the menu, and then select Preferences.

C) Click on the boxes besides Capture and Capture 1.

D) Now your microphone should be working.

7. Hard drive

The Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250 Gb hard drive has a firmware bug that makes Ubuntu park it every minute or so; the same problem exists in Vista. This parking is considered a load cycle, of which your hard drive was designed to complete 600,000 of such cycles. Without this fix your hard drive can prematurely fail after only 8 months. Thanks to jakon on ubuntuforums.org, we now have a fix that fully works with the Asus M50Sv-A1.

A) First we’ll have to adjust the hard drive’s power management settings by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf

B) And by pasting the following three lines in the file:
/dev/sda {
apm = 254
}

C) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

D) Next we’ll have to tell the notebook to reactivate these settings after resuming from suspend mode by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo nano 30hdparm

E) And by pasting the following lines inside the file:
#!/bin/bash

# Run hdparm like on boot to restore hdparm.conf settings -
# hds lose them when going to standby.

resume_hdparm()
{
for x in /sys/bus/ide/devices/*/block* /sys/bus/scsi/devices/*/block*
do
# This check is required – x can contain
# literal ‘/sys/bus/ide/devices/*/block*’
# when the glob did not match anything.
if [ -e $x ]
then
drive=$(basename $(readlink $x))
DEVNAME=/dev/$drive /lib/udev/hdparm
fi
done
}

case “$1″ in
thaw|resume)
resume_hdparm
;;
*)
;;
esac

exit $?

F) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

G) Finally we’ll have to install the file we just created by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo install 30hdparm /etc/pm/sleep.d/

H) Reboot and your hard drive should be working with Ubuntu as it should have from the start.

8. Speakers

With the thousands of different notebook sound configurations that are out there, it is no surprise to have yet another ALSA bug. Thanks to Petr Zemek (s3rvac), we now have the correct ALSA option switch that will cause the speakers to mute when the headphones are plugged in. Surprisingly after trying all the generic options, the same option that works for a Haier notebook works with the Asus M50.

A) First we’ll have to edit the ALSA configuration file via terminal:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

B) Scroll down to the bottom and add this line:
options snd-hda-intel model=haier-w66

C) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.

D) Reboot and your speakers will now automatically mute when you plug your headphones in.

This guide will now allow you to use your Asus M50Sv-A1 with the most secure and progressive operating system at the moment that thrives on the open source community which provides for a much more dynamic experience than anything else out there now. Due to the fact that the notebook is relatively new, not all of its’ features could be fully exploited. Really, only some non-essential hotkeys cannot be used, but these are features that most of us are willing to trade for the privilidge of being on the Linux platform. If you find any other tweaks that could enhance Ubuntu on the Asus M50Sv-A1, please post below.

Como no Linux ainda não existe um programa oficial do Google para acesso a rede gtalk e de quebra notificar novos emails, o jeito é buscar opções… Já usamos o Pidgin para acessar a rede de bate-papo, agora falta apenas um “notificador de emails”

Sem dúvidas, CheckGmail é a melhor opção existente.

Para instalar, basta usar o apt-get
# apt-get install checkgmail

Como a versão presente no repositório do Debian etch é 1.10, vamos baixar a última versão no site e substituir pela versão mais recente, já que todas as dependências foram resolvidas e devidamente instaladas!

Uma novidade na 1.13 é a opção de atualição com “checkgmail -update”

Baixando o arquivo:
# wget http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/checkgmail/checkgmail

Movendo o arquivo:
# mv checkgmail /usr/bin/

Permissões de execução:
# chmod +x /usr/bin/checkgmail

Para o CheckGmail iniciar com o sistema, basta ir em Desktop, Preferências, Sessões, Programas Iniciais e adicionar o comando “checkgmail”

Estos días checkgmail me tiraba error al intentar conectarse con Gmail (401 Unauthorised). Hoy revisando Liferea encontré la solución en Mundo Geek en donde nos informan que Gmail cambio el sistema de logeo. Lo unico que hay que hacer es remplazar el binario por el de los respositorios SVN.

wget http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/checkgmail/checkgmail
sudo mv checkgmail /usr/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/checkgmail

Listo ya tengo Checkgmail funcionando nuevamente.

Si no l o tienes instalado se ecuentra disponible en los repositorios de Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install checkgmail

Checkgmail es un notificador de correo gmail para gnu/linux, yo lo instalaba usando Automatix pero ayer leyendo el blog de Alaingonza me entere que en Ubuntu 7.10 el Firefox tiene una función llamada AptUrl. Asi que Checkgmail se puede instalar escribiendo:

apt://checkgmail

Aprovecho para explicar como hacer que Checkgmail reproduzca un sonido cuando llegan nuevos mensajes:
Hay que ir a “Configurar” y en “Comando a ejecutar para nuevos mensajes” escribir “aplay” y la ruta de un archivo de sonido wav:

aplay /home/walter/sonido.wav