Getting notify to work in gmail with ubuntu 14.04

[Tommy Trussell]

>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Donald Parsons <dnldprsns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The notify is supposed to indicate on the desktop when there is new mail
>>> in gmail even when gmail is not open.
>>> I have followed the "Turn notifications on or off" for gmail but nothing
>>> shows up on the desktop.
>>> Is ubuntu interfering with this?
>>> thanks
>>> Donald Parsons
>>>
>>
>> What browser are you using? I get the notifications (after I have
>> activated them) using Chromium.
>>
>> I presume whatever browser you used to set it up will need to be running
>> in order to get the notifications, so the other question is whether the
>> browser is running when you get new messages. I almost always have a tab
>> with gmail in it so I have never looked for notifications when I don't have
>> gmail already open.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Donald Parsons <dnldprsns at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> Tommy,
>
> I still do not have the notification-of-new- mail working. I am using the
> Google chrome browser inserted into the list of application icons on the
> the left of the desktop. How is it run without bringing up the gmail?
>
> The only gmail icon I found to also place there was a Gnome gmail one. Is
> there another?
>
> What does the notification look like?
>
> I wonder about how the cookies should be setup.
>
> Attached are my settings – perhaps youi can see an error.
>
>
>
Hi -- Please bottom post -- it makes it easier to follow the discussion.

I didn't see any settings in that file. Apparently whatever you did, you
can't save them that way!

As for your question about what the notifications look like -- on my system
running Unity, they appear as a rectangular message on the top right area
of the desktop, overlapping everything else on the screen. They fade in,
are solid for some number of seconds, and they usually fade out on their
own after a few seconds, but they have an X close button in the corner if
you need to get them out of the way sooner.

You didn't say what version of Ubuntu you are running, but I remember some
versions offered a Gmail icon you could put in the dock, which was a
"webapp" link using the Ubuntu web browser, which I was never able to use
successfully. I removed them. SO unless that was fixed I recommend removing
the Gmail webapp from your dock (and see the note at the end of this
message.)

You said you are using Google Chrome, which doesn't normally come with
Ubuntu -- you have to download a file from Google which modifies your
system to receive updates. That might be what you are using, and that
should be fine, just make sure you are receiving all the Google updates. I
think the latest is Version 50.0.2661.94.

MOST of the time I use the Chromium browser, which is the open-source
browser that you can install in Ubuntu without making any special changes
to your system. The version of Chromium I have on this Ubuntu "Trusty"
14.04 LTS system is Version 49.0.2623.108 Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit).

I am using Chromium right now -- I think the steps are very similar to
Google Chrome.

NOTIFICATIONS

Notifications are controlled by the web site, but you usually have to
approve them in the browser.

Open your settings panel in the browser by clicking the "Customize and
Control" button (looks like a stack of three thick lines near the top right
of the browser window). Choose "Settings" from that menu. You should get a
new tab with the settings.

Scroll down to the bottom of the settings menu and click the link that says
"Show advanced settings."

Scroll down slightly in the page to the Privacy heading, and click the
Content Settings button.

On the Content Settings panel, scroll down to the Notifications section. I
have mine set on "Ask when a site wants to show notifications
(recommended)." If yours is also set that way, click the "Manage
exceptions" button, and make sure all the Google sites you use are set to
"allow."

[If it turns out you ARE using Chromium instead of Chrome, I recommend
going back to the Advanced Settings section, and un-check "Notify me when
the website I am visiting can run as an application." That way Ubuntu won't
offer to install any more broken webapp icons in your dock.]
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