Does it works with MacOS X?

[zilongshanren]

I noticed that the screenshot is made under Linux, would it be possible to support MacOS X?
Thanks.

[iqbalansari]

It should be easy to make it work on MacOS X. Unfortunately I do not have access to a MacOS X machine, so I might not be able to provide a 'ready-to-use' snippet.

mu4e-alert uses alert to show desktop notifications, which supports a variety of styles. You need to configure mu4e-alert to use a style that works on your system.

Looking at alert's documentation it seems growl and notifier style should work on MacOS X. So if you have terminal-notifier installed, add something like the following to your init file to enable notifications using terminal-notifier

(mu4e-alert-set-default-style 'notifier)

Alternately if you have growl installed you can instruct mu4e-alert to use it by doing the following

(mu4e-alert-set-default-style 'growl)

Please try the above and report back if works (or even if it does not work)

Hope the above helps!

[iqbalansari]

@zilongshanren Hi, just wanted to know if any of the above methods worked for you

[iqbalansari]

Oops! I think I closed this by mistake

[justmytwospence]

That method works for moi

[iqbalansari]

Great! I guess I will update the README with instructions for OSX and close this issue. Thanks @justmytwospence

[zilongshanren]

@iqbalansari
Thanks, I will test it on my MacOS X.

[iqbalansari]

Closing this, I have added some instructions for enabling desktop notifications. to the README. Feel free to reopen if you face any issues or feel the documentation is not clear.

Thanks

[jkbellew]

Hi. I have installed terminal-notifier on OS X and I still can't get the alerts. My .emacs file has the following lines:

(mu4e-alert-set-default-style 'notifier)
(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'mu4e-alert-enable-notifications)
(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'mu4e-alert-enable-mode-line-display)

And it doesn't seem to call terminal-notifier (same issue with growl). I have verified that the notifier works and there should be no issue. I do see the mode line updated but that is all.

Thanks in advance.

[iqbalansari]

Most probably this is because Emacs cannot find terminal-notifier binary. What is the output of M-:(executable-find "terminal-notifier")RET? Also could you please post the value of the variable alert-notifier-command?

[jkbellew]

Things that I need to check. I verified that the binary was in my path but it is not found by Emacs. And there is no value for alert-notifier-command it states Symbol' s function definition is void: alert-notifier-command.

I'll go ahead and make sure that the binary is found and try again. The rest of this works pretty well, as the mode line shows me when I have mail.

[iqbalansari]

I verified that the binary was in my path but it is not found by Emacs.

That explains the lack of notifications. For testing quickly you can manually set alert-notifier-command to the full path to terminal-notifier and try again. In general I think exec-path-from-shell would be useful if you Emacs to see the same PATH as your shell

[jkbellew]

I will have to check the exec path to make sure it is finding it.

I'll let you know.

Jason K Bellew
@theshaggyviking

On May 3, 2016, 14:55 -0400, Iqbal Ansarinotifications@github.com, wrote:

I verified that the binary was in my path but it is not found by Emacs.

The explains the lack of notifications. For testing quickly you can manually setalert-notifier-commandto the full path toterminal-notifierand try again. In general I thinkexec-path-from-shell(https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell)would be useful if you Emacs to see the same PATH as your shell

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[jkbellew]

And it worked thanks. Once I set the command manually everything is coming up roses.