user136: There's a nice C2DM push based notifier for android but I'd like to know if there is one for the desktop environment, ideally linux? 
Does anyone know if one exists?

user22: While it's not necessarily a desktop notifier, there is a functional web-app notifier recently publicized on the forums: http://www.bitcoin-tools.de/
From the site:

It is nothing more than a simple alert-system which alerts you
  whenever the buy, last or sell is reaching a defined level.

The tool includes audio alerts and user-definable limits.

user441: If you're looking for a solution which will run on linux, then there's always a the wget command:
wget -q -O - https://mtgox.com/code/ticker.php

You can run it in a loop in a terminal :)
Under the xfce desktop environment you could use the genmon panel plugin and feed it Mt. Gox's last trade data. Speaking of which, I think I'll do that myself. :)

136: <p>There's a nice C2DM push based notifier for android but I'd like to know if there is one for the desktop environment, ideally linux? </p>

<p>Does anyone know if one exists?</p>
 22: <p>While it's not necessarily a <em>desktop</em> notifier, there <em>is</em> a functional web-app notifier recently <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57736.0" rel="nofollow">publicized on the forums</a>: <a href="http://www.bitcoin-tools.de/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitcoin-tools.de/</a></p>

<p>From the site:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>It is nothing more than a simple alert-system which alerts you
  whenever the buy, last or sell is reaching a defined level.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The tool includes audio alerts and user-definable limits.</p>
 441: <p>If you're looking for a solution which will run on linux, then there's always a the <code>wget</code> command:</p>

<pre><code>wget -q -O - https://mtgox.com/code/ticker.php
</code></pre>

<p>You can run it in a loop in a terminal :)</p>

<p>Under the xfce desktop environment you could use the <code>genmon</code> panel plugin and feed it Mt. Gox's last trade data. Speaking of which, I think I'll do that myself. :)</p>
