Right-click on the tray icon and click on "New Message" to open Gmail with the compose window in focus.ĭon't want to receive notifications for a short time? Enable the Do not disturb option 30 minutes, 1 or 2 or 5 hours, or indefinitely. Not interested in the new mail? Use the tray menu's Mark Read option to remove it from the notification, this also syncs the mail as "read" to your Gmail folder.ĭouble-click on the Inbox Notifier tray icon to load the new mail in your browser. Instead, it shows a banner that mentions the number of unread messages in your inbox. Note: If you have more than 1 unread mail, the program won't display the message's contents. It also displays a notification in the action center that contains the sender's name and the subject of the mail. Inbox Notifier displays a badge (double envelope icon) to indicate when a new mail has arrived in your Gmail inbox. This will force the program to sync your inbox folder.
Or, if you don't mind the "spam folder" prioritization, right-click on the Inbox Notifier tray icon and select mark as read to "mark all spam mails as read". Right-click on Inbox Notifier's tray icon, select Open and navigate to the "Notification" tab and uncheck the "Junk message (SPAM)" option and hit the OK button. Click the link associated with Click Here to Install Browser Extension ( Figure A).The good news is that you can disable the "Spam" folder rule in a couple of clicks. If you are prompted, you'll need to first install the browser extension (so you can more easily install extensions from within Firefox). Open the browser and point it to the Gnome Email Notifications extension page. To install the extension, you need to use the Firefox web browser. How to install the Gnome Email Notifications extension Let's get that extension installed, so you can start getting notifications for emails that arrive in your Gmail cloud account. Besides, you might prefer to keep work and personal emails siloed. But when you have a Gmail account with a very large amount of stored email, those clients can get a bit buggy. I know what you're thinking: Why not just add your Gmail account to Thunderbird or Geary? That's all fine and good for some accounts. SEE: Rust: What developers need to know about this programming language (free PDF) (TechRepublic) What's even better, this extension alerts you to incoming Gmail almost as soon as it arrives in your account. It's seamless and it should be considered a must-have for anyone who depends on Gmail and uses the GNOME desktop environment. If you depend on Gmail, the out-of-the-box experience with GNOME lacks the ability to notify you when a new email arrives.įortunately, a developer saw to it to create an extension to bring Gmail notifications into the system.
But one area that it tends to miss out on is Gmail. The GNOME desktop environment does a pretty good job of notifying you when an email comes in.
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