FAQ

What environments will GmNotify run on?

I developed GmNotify in Gnome with GTK2. However, I wanted to stay as neutral as possible so there are no Gnome bindings. It should run on any Linux/Unix base machine with Ruby and GTK2 installed.

Do I need to install Ruby-Gnome2?

No. You only need Ruby-GTK2 which, as of version 0.15.0, you can download seperately from the Gnome2 pieces.

What about Windows?

No. Not now anyway. If there is significant interest in a Windows version I'd look into it.

There's a bunch of applications that do the same thing. Why did you do this?

For a few reasons:

• I didn't really like any of the other Linux applications out there that do Gmail notification.
• I just came across Ruby and loved it. I wanted to write something small and practical before I move onto bigger projects with Ruby.
• I'm a "system level" programming kind of guy. I've never written a real graphical application before. I wanted to try my hand at it.

What is that huge auth string I see in my process list?

This is because of the way GmNotify opens Gmail for you. See here for more information.

Note that you only see the string when no browser windows are open and you click on GmNotify to go to Gmail. If you already have a browser open you won't see it.

Do you have anything to do with Google?

No. I am not affiliated with them in any way. I just like their mail service.

Where can I go for help?

Check the mailing list.