A colorful byobu script to notify your new mails and feeds

After delivering all the feeds to Maildirs by rssdrop, I also need a notification daemon in my byobu shell.

Byobu supports custom script and display the outputs in the bottom bar. And particularly, you can use colors in byobu script’s output!

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Here is my notification script at ~/.byobu/bin/5_mail. 5 means checking every 5 seconds. Byobu will force all the scripts those period is shorter than 5 seconds to run as 5.

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#!/bin/sh -e
MAILDIR="/home/$USER/Mail/Yahoo/Inbox"
LOCK="/home/$USER/桌面/新邮件.desktop"
LOCKFILE="/home/$USER/.byobu/bin/新邮件.desktop"
MSGICON="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/gmail.svg"
ICON_MAIL="[新邮件!]"
COLOR_SET="#[fg=red bg=white bold]"
COLOR_RESTORE="#[fg=$BYOBU_LIGHT bg=$BYOBU_DARK]"
if [ ! "`ls $MAILDIR/new`" = "" ] ; then
	echo "$COLOR_SET""$ICON_MAIL""$COLOR_RESTORE"
	if [ ! -f $LOCK ]; then
		cp $LOCKFILE $LOCK
		notify-send -i $MSGICON "新邮件" $ICON_MAIL
	fi
else
	rm -f $LOCK
fi
cd /home/$USER/Mail/rss/
for i in *
do
	if [ ! "`ls $i/new`" = "" ] ; then
		echo "$COLOR_SET""[$i]""$COLOR_RESTORE"
	fi
done