irssi desktop notification on xfce

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Fri Feb 15 18:43:38 UTC 2013


On 02/15/2013 04:16 AM, Flavio Leitner issued this missive:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to see a desktop notification (a flashing tray icon would
> be perfect) when some events happen in irssi, like highlighted words
> for example.
>
> I am using F18 and XFCE. I use irssi in Terminal currently.
> As an alternative, I looked for how to make the Terminal button
> blinks in the panel, but not success so far.

Is there a reason you don't use something like Pidgin or Empathy?
They do IRC quite well (along with AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, ICQ and lots
of others) and are tied into the desktop.
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