Remko Tronçon's Homepage 2012-05-19T12:29:42+02:00 http://el-tramo.be/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ 2007-10-19T00:00:00+02:00 http://el-tramo.be/blog/lgmtray <p>I have been looking for a Linux system tray application to notify me of new mail on my GMail account. Unfortunately, all the notifiers I found either did not run on Linux, or had dependencies I was unable to meet on my machine (because I lack system administrator privileges). This is why I wrote <a href="http://el-tramo.be/software/lgmtray">LGMTray</a>, a very basic GMail notifier, with very few dependencies.</p> <!--more--> <p> LGMTray is implemented in C++, and only depends on <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">libcurl</a> (for opening secure connections to the GMail server),  <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">LibXML2</a> (for parsing the GMail feed), and libxpm (for rendering the icons). It uses the <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/latest/">FreeDesktop.org System Tray Specification</a> to dock the application to the system tray, and uses Xlib directly for all the graphical functions (drawing the icons, communicating with the tray, &hellip;). It is currently very limited in features, but will probably evolve in the future (depending on personal and other people&rsquo;s interest).</p>