Python Google Calendar notifications using pynotify I use Google Calendar to manage my calendars, and I really missed something to warn me whenever I have an appointment with an alert set. So here is an example of a Python program to do such a thing. It is written using the
Python Using GTK+ stock icons with pynotify It took me a while to find this, so I'm just blogging it so other people will be able to find it. I wanted to send a desktop notification using pynotify, but using a GTK+ stock icons. With the following snippet, I managed to
X11 The eggtray problem I still don't know why but many GTK+ applications use something called eggtrayicon. As far as I know, eggtrayicon.c is a file written in 2002 by Anders Carlsson which implements the Freedesktop.org system tray procotol for GTK+ applications. Problem is that this