Question

I use jabber to connect to gmail talk and when I get a new message and I’m not in the jabber window I get notified in the modeline.

I unfortunately can not find a way to customize this message. The default is too obtrusive for me (ideally a simple asterisk in the modeline in an unobtrusive color would be enough).

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

This snippet will give you a plain notification count in the mode line (e.g. [42]):

(eval-after-load "jabber-activity"    
  '(progn
     (setq global-mode-string (delete '(t jabber-activity-mode-string) global-mode-string))
     (add-to-list 'global-mode-string jabber-activity-count-in-title-format)))