mcabber notification script

eventcmd

#!/bin/sh
echo "$1 $2 $3 $4" >> ~/test.mcabber.log
EVENT_TYPE=$1
EVENT_SUBTYPE=$2
JID=$3
FILE=$4
TITLE="Google Hangouts"
SOUND_FILE="$HOME/.mcabber/sounds/alert_47.wav"
ICON="$HOME/.mcabber/images/chat.png"
TIMEOUT=10000

function new_message_in() {
    notify-send -i $ICON -t $TIMEOUT "$TITLE" "New message from ${JID}."
    aplay -d 2 $SOUND_FILE
}

if [ $EVENT_TYPE == "MSG" ] && [ $EVENT_SUBTYPE == "IN" ]
then
    new_message_in
fi

The mcabberrc file has the following options set to get this to work:

set events_command = ~/.mcabber/eventcmd
set events_ignore_active_window = 1
set eventcmd_use_nickname = 1

This places the eventcmd script into the $HOME/.mcabber directory. The eventcmd script gets passed information like:

STATUS O Random Person
MSG OUT Random Person
MSG IN Random Person

Just remember to either change $SOUND_FILE and $ICON variables to applicable files, or to change the function new_message_in to not play sounds (aplay) or display an icon.

notify-send -t $TIMEOUT "$TITLE" "New message from ${JID}."
# aplay -d 2 $SOUND_FILE

You can test it out by navigating to the $HOME/.mcabber directory and running:

./eventcmd MSG IN "Test User"

thank you very much!
this has helped me enormously.

Very nice script. Thank you!