i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:43:28 +0000mail-notification for a plain i3 desktophttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/Hello! I am using Debian jessie with i3. For update notifications I use apticron, but I'd like to have a notification when I recieve system mail. There would be mail-notification, but it would install 206MB of additional bulls*it as it depends on Gnome or KDE or something like that. Is there a lightweight alternative to mail-notification for i3? edit: A notification in form of something in the i3bar would be perfect, no need for a popup window..Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:05:22 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/Answer by teto for <p>Hello! I am using Debian jessie with i3. For update notifications I use apticron, but I'd like to have a notification when I recieve system mail. There would be mail-notification, but it would install 206MB of additional bulls*it as it depends on Gnome or KDE or something like that.</p> <p>Is there a lightweight alternative to mail-notification for i3?</p> <p>edit: A notification in form of something in the i3bar would be perfect, no need for a popup window..</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5517#post-id-5517i3pystatus handles several backends to show an unread mail counter in i3bar: http://docs.enkore.de/i3pystatus/i3pystatus.html#mail-backends Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:43:28 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5517#post-id-5517Answer by cee for <p>Hello! I am using Debian jessie with i3. For update notifications I use apticron, but I'd like to have a notification when I recieve system mail. There would be mail-notification, but it would install 206MB of additional bulls*it as it depends on Gnome or KDE or something like that.</p> <p>Is there a lightweight alternative to mail-notification for i3?</p> <p>edit: A notification in form of something in the i3bar would be perfect, no need for a popup window..</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5490#post-id-5490You could try [dunst](http://knopwob.org/dunst/index.html). It is a minimal (as in great) notify daemon. > Dunst is a lightweight replacement > for the notification-daemons provided > by most desktop environments. It's > very customizable, doesn't depend on > any toolkits and therefore fits in > those windowmanager centric setups we > all love to customize to perfection.Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:37:19 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5490#post-id-5490Answer by Gamonics for <p>Hello! I am using Debian jessie with i3. For update notifications I use apticron, but I'd like to have a notification when I recieve system mail. There would be mail-notification, but it would install 206MB of additional bulls*it as it depends on Gnome or KDE or something like that.</p> <p>Is there a lightweight alternative to mail-notification for i3?</p> <p>edit: A notification in form of something in the i3bar would be perfect, no need for a popup window..</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5479#post-id-5479I think notify-send (it's in the extra/libnotify package in Arch) is supposed to solve this problem in a lightweight manner, but I can't seem to get it to work for me in i3, so I'm not sure about that.Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:12:56 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5165/mail-notification-for-a-plain-i3-desktop/?answer=5479#post-id-5479