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Well, TB sends notifications when you get new mail, but... if you miss it, you miss it :)
Requests for systray icon (or any other built-in notifications) have been around for 15+ years, but nothing so far for Linux users
There were some useful extensions which hadn't survived the 68 migration, and only a few remain.

My longtime combo of Minimize on Close and Urgent Mail worked (at least for me) better than BirdTray
Urgent Mail raises X11 urgent flag (when new mail arrives), so TB gets selected in the taskbar

But recently I (re)discovered SysTray-X which I was finally able to install.
For me it's the thing. (<--- period)


If you're not happy with BirdTray, you may want to try one of the suggestions


.... which reminds me - can we have SysTray-X in MXPI?

There is Birdtray and.. something else that I cannot remember off the top of my head.

Googled.. I think that was Firetray. I use the first, works peachy.

Eadwine Rose wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:09 am There is Birdtray and.. something else that I cannot remember off the top of my head.

Googled.. I think that was Firetray. I use the first, works peachy.

None of these two worked for me, probably because of KDE/Plasma? I haven't used XFCE for some years now

Moved your topic to the kde section of the forum.

Can you provide yuor quick system info please? Run it from the menu, hit paste in a reply. Don't select, don't edit.

If you are making a packaging request, post in the request forum for MX-21 where the packagers will see it: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewforum.php?f=147

On the website:

Be aware that there are three separate packages for KDE, GNOME and others:

Eadwine Rose wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:56 am Moved your topic to the kde section of the forum.

Can you provide yuor quick system info please? Run it from the menu, hit paste in a reply. Don't select, don't edit.

Not asking for help, just sharing my experience with various notifiers for TB :)
Also no need to move this topic to KDE section, extensions are DE agnostic.

Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:44 am If you are making a packaging request, post in the request forum for MX-21 where the packagers will see it: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewforum.php?f=147

On the website:

Be aware that there are three separate packages for KDE, GNOME and others:

Yes, I know... installed the correct one, it works flawlessly