Why You Might Want to Try Linux is a series of posts around the same topic – Ubuntu Linux.
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This is not much of a big deal a tool but, worth the install if this is your thing.
CheckGmail is a small application that sits in your notification area/system tray, and displays a, yep, you guessed it, notification when your Gmail account receives new mail. It’s pretty straight forward and easy to use.
Very similar to Gmailnotifier(?), that tool that does the same thing but on Windows systems. What they don’t have in common is that, this one will let you change the notification icon, and also, you can delete the incoming message right away – straight from the notification app.
Right. CheckGmail is available from the repository, so you can go run a Terminal window now and type
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
Once done, you can start it by going to APplications > Internet > checkGmail. If you want this to start with Ubuntu, you can specify it in the Startup Applications (more of that in another post).
Right, on start, the Preferences window will show up to ask you for your login details – Gmail username and password.
In the same preferences window, you can set if it will check for labels (if you use them to filter your mail), and some other tweaks should you want to edit them.
The Gmail icon will sit along in your system tray with the other icons. It’ll highlight red when there are new mails, and is grayscale when there isn’t any.
When you do receive a new mail, CheckGmail will display popup notification, containing a preview of the mail, the subject title, who’s it from etc.
In that screenshot there, you can see that there are other possible actions – Open, mark as read, Archive, Report spam, and Delete – all in there.
If for example you read the preview and want to delete it right away, just simply click the Delete link there and boom! 
that’s it. It won’t open any more browser windows or stuff like that. That is totally awesome, in my opinion. Cool.
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