Gaim nicer notifications with libnotify on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy
Gaim (now renamed to Pidgin, but the version I’m using isn’t that new) comes with a “guifications” plugin to do “notifications”, those little popup “toast” messages to tell you that someone’s messaged you, someone’s logged on or off, all that sort of thing. However, guifications is ugly and doesn’t look like the rest of my desktop, and there is a proper notification thing for Linux, called libnotify. Some bright spark has written a Gaim plugin to use libnotify for notifications, but it’s not available in Ubuntu edgy. It is, however, in the development release, Ubuntu feisty. Here’s how to install it (and this acts as a very tiny HOWTO for how to install stuff from an Ubuntu release other than the one you’re on).
Basically, this involves building the package from the source code. First, then, you have to tell Ubuntu that it can get source code from Ubuntu feisty.
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