Thinkpadlight-indicator-messages is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.
Never miss new messages again - your ThinkPad's light reminds you!
Never miss new messages again - your ThinkPad's light reminds you!
Just make sure that thinkpadlight-client is in your PYTHONPATH when you start this program, e.g. PYTHONPATH=$HOME/src/thinkpadlight-client python indicator_messages.py. You could also install it system-wide.