Rui CarmoGrowl was a global notification system for macOS that predated the built-in system notifications feature. This allowed any application to issue notifications in several formats (the notifier windows themselves were customizable, and you got to pick from several kinds in the default install):
Unlike other alternatives such as LanOSD, was licensed in the public domain and had Perl and Python bindings (it was a framework, so any language with Objective-C bindings could interop with it, and it shipped with a small set of Xcode samples).
Resources:
| Category | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Analogues | Window.Growl | JavaScript snippet that displays Growl-like in-page notifications. |
| Snarl | for Windows. I find the name oddly appropriate to the platform. |
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| Mumbles | ||
| Windows port | somewhat official. |
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| Extensions | Yapper | A XMPP bridge. |
| Prowl | ||
| Libraries | Nathan's port | to Perl, Referenced here for ease of tracking. |
| My DBUS bridge | Experimental, not really maintained. |
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| notification relay | to re-send notifications to machines behind a NAT firewall (1-to-n) |
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| My protocol implementation | In Python, not really maintained anymore but working. |
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| My other implementation | In PHP, of all things. Not really maintained as well, but still being used by a lot of folk. |
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| Odds and Ends | My UDP protocol diagrams | in .sxd format: |
Scripts:
Melo’s x-notify shell script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Runs script, and prints a notification with growl when it finishes
#
$*
growlnotify -m "Script '$*' completed" -s "Background script notification" &