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Mail Notification helps unclutter the desktop
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To do it on Windows, I wrote a little applet that allowed Outlook express to run with it's Window hidden and with no icon in the application bar (as if it was a background task), so it took up no desktop space nor applicatio bar space, until I needed it.All I had to do was mouse click on the icon in the System Tray to display the Window and access my email.
On my Linux box I do a similar thing, however I didn't need to write an applet, there's one there already it's called "ksystraycmd" and
ksystraycmd --window "Mail - Evolution" /usr/bin/evolution -c mail
in a shell script inserted into the ~home~/.kde/Autostart is all I need to have my email client running windowless with no icon on the Application bar (as if it was a background task). I do run Mail notification, I have it sitting in the system tray and hidden. I point it to my email client, so that when my emial client has pulled down some email it notifies me.
Wehn I want to display my email client a single click on the icon in the system tray display my email client.