Facebook on Fedora -- a couple of questions/suggestions.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:09:37 -0400
William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:

> Facebook seems to be unaware of the concept of workspaces.  If I am
> using a workspace that doesn't have my browser I get no notification
> of a posting or message or friendship request.  The chat requests
> makes a sound.  Any suggestions on how I might set up a notification
> monitor that shows in my system tray, or beeps or something like my
> email monitor.  Looked in FB apps -- nothing.

I think its nothing Facebook can do about. The browser has to support
notifications to the desktop from websites. I think Google implemented
this for GMail but it is only supported in the unstable/beta Google
Chrome builds. I think they also intend to push this change as something
that all browsers should support.

That said, you can use the facebook plugin for pidgin or empathy to
integrate Facebook notifications and chat with your desktop very
trivially. Hope this helps.

:)

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Suvayu

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