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Growl is an application for Mac OS X, and now Windows XP and up, that can display notification messages on a per-app basis. Other programs can use the Growl API to trigger these notifications.

Learn more about Growl for Mac at growl.info.

Learn more about Growl for Windows at growlforwindows.com.

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What's the Linux equivalent of OS X's Growl?

I want to write scripts on Ubuntu that will notify the user through a tool analogous to Growl on OS X (specifically, the growlnotify command-line tool). What's the equivalent tool on Linux called?
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Growl Notifications for Shell Task Completion

(OSX Specific) I, like many others besides myself often find myself kicking off a process in the shell that takes a minute or two to complete (a large svn commit for example). During that time, I often alt-tab and refresh…
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Configure Growl notifications to follow active display?

I'm using multiple monitors with my computer (running OS X Lion) and Growl notifications always show up on the main display. Is there any plugin, setting or other way to make notifications follow me to the active display? By active I mean the…
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Force Colloquy not to use built-in Growl notifications

Whenever Colloquy needs to pop up a notification (for example, when you are PM'd), it uses its built-in Growl notifications, which really annoy me because they stay on the screen until they are clicked (at least NOTICE's do anyways). I'd like to…
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How do I get growl for windows to use native windows 8/10 notifications?

I'm using gntp-send to send messages to a growl for windows instance. GFW hasn't been maintained a while so there dosen't seem to be support for windows 10 style notifications. How would I get GFW to work with the new style notifications?
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Responding to Growl notifications with Applescript

I'm looking to write some Applescript which is run in response to Growl events. e.g. email arrives from a given user which effects some change on my Nabaztag. I can find plenty on the internet about creating and displaying Growl notifications with…
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Web page change monitoring for Mac OS X

There is a site that I need to monitor for changes and pop an alarm if the change is over a certain threshold. Ideally it would use Growl to pop the notification but I'm open to alternatives. If there is an application out there that does this…
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How to permanently remove Growl from my Mac

Growl just installed itself on my machine without me requesting it and it has now infected everything - every program I open how do I get rid of it?
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Execute a shell script when growl notification is shown

How do you execute a shell script whenever a Growl notification is shown? And make it application specific. For instance, run a the shell script say "You have new mail" whenever a growlMail notification is shown?
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Is there a mac app that will post a growl notification when an app starts/stops responding?

Basically, I want to get a growl display when either an app starts beachballing, or when a previously beachballed app wakes up and starts taking UI requests again. Does such a beast exist?
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How can I make sure an app registers with Mountain Lion's Notification Center?

I own two Macs with an identical set of apps that both have the latest version of Mountain Lion (10.8.2). On one Mac, many of these apps register with Notification Center (NC). On the other, many do not. They just use Growl instead. For example,…
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How can I permanently allow a firewall rule in OS X Mountain Lion?

Since upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion, every time I restart my computer I am alerted Do you want the application "Growl.app" to accept incoming network connections? Even though I click "Allow" this message continues to plague me upon…
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How do I use gntp-send?

I'm currently attempting to hack together a way to send notifications to my Android cellphone using growl, and its various forms from Windows and Linux systems. At the current point of time, I'm using the growlnotify binary from growl for windows…
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centralized growl forwarder

Multiple services on servers I'm running can be configured to output growl notifications, I'd like a centralized forwarder to run on a Linux box I'm looking for either an implementation or tips on writing an implementation of a server to listen on…
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New Growl in App Store: Hide menubar icon?

I love growl – using it for years. I switched to a new Mac with OS X Lion and installed growl from the App Store (1,99 $ or so) Now I have this growl menubar icon up left besides the date and battery. Since I use growl only for notifications and…
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