(Had I wanted to, I could have also changed the text color, opacity, and default duration of Smoke notifications, as well as any of a number of other settings. My default style is Smoke and, as seen in the image at right, I’ve customized the background colors for the Very Low- and Normal-priority notification styles so messages with different priority levels look different in this case, as I described above, notifications alerting me that someone has logged on will have a different appearance than new-message notifications. One of my favorites is iPhonesque, which emulates the iPhone’s elegant pop-up messages.ĭifferent strokes: Two types of iChat notifications If the supplied styles are too limiting, the developers provide additional styles for download, and a bit of work with Google finds other sites with available styles. There are many built-in display styles to choose from, including a couple that don’t actually display anything at all: The MailMe display style, for instance, will send you an e-mail instead of displaying a notification, and the Speech style will-surprise!-speak the notification instead of displaying it. You control the default style for all messages, as well as elements of each notification style. When new message is received, the priority is set to normal, the message can stay on the screen, and a sound is played.ĭisplay styles are handled in Growl’s Display Options screen. Using the Enabled checkbox, I’ve disabled all other notifications I then customized the desired notifications to suit my needs:Ĭustomized notifications: When a user logs in, Growl displays a very low priority message, never leaves it on the screen, and doesn’t make any sounds. In the case of Chax, I want notifications for only two events: when I receive a new message, and when someone signs on.
GROWL APPLICATIONS INSTALL
(As soon as you install and launch a program that includes Growl support, it appears in the list automatically you don’t have to do anything.) You can temporarily disable Growl for a particular program by unchecking the box next to it you can disable support for that program for good by highlighting it and clicking on Remove. Here you see a list of all programs installed on your machine that include Growl support. The Applications screen contains the meat of Growl’s settings. The General tab lets you add a Growl menu-bar icon, specify whether to leave notifications onscreen if you’re not reacting to them, choose the default location for Growl notifications, and hide all notifications (useful if you want to leave Growl running, but not see its alerts). The interface features several screens that control what Growl does and how it does it. Once you install Growl, you configure it in a new Growl pane of System Preferences. Growlified: Apps automatically appear in this list if they include Growl support. For those programs, however, Growl offers useful benefits.) I personally use Growl for only a handful of apps: iChat, Firefox, Mail, NetNewsWire, SuperDuper, and Transmit. (Because Growl requires each program’s developer to support it, you may find that you don’t use many Growl-supported apps. For supported programs, I can choose not only whether or not to receive notifications, but also to decide which notifications I receive based on the type of activity a program is reporting.
I like Growl because, unlike the OS X’s built-in methods, it puts me in charge of the notification process.
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