How to get IRC notification on pidgin

I use pidgin as my centralized message application (Google Hangout, Jabber, ICQ, …) and also to get messages from freenode IRC.

But there is an issue with #IRC support on pidgin: I don’t know when someone posted a new message in the channel (#nuttx channel of course).

Then search about it a found a solution here:

There is a program called pidgin-irc-notifications that helps:

Note: I need to install pynotify first:

$ sudo pip install py-notify

2 thoughts on “How to get IRC notification on pidgin”

Thanks for this post. I too use Pidgin and IRC.

Very nice Celem! I like the idea of use a single application for all IM services.

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