Comments on: OSX Leopard, RSpec Autotest Growl/growlnotify Workaround

By: Grumbling and Growling

Grumbling and Growling — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:14:02 +0000

[...] it work.My solution is a mashup of ideas from these sites, growl docs and autotest docs:UnixmonkeySilver Chair Solutions Neither of the above worked out of the box for me. (Not sure why) My solution [...]

By: hogmoru

hogmoru — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:50:26 +0000

Hi, I came up with another solution, a 1 line wrapper, no applescript… please tell me if it does not cover your needs, I may be missing your point here, or some aspects of it

In the growl prefs pane, network tab, activate incoming connections
rename /usr/local/bin/growlnotify to /usr/local/bin/growlnotify.wrapped
create /usr/local/bin/growlnotify as a shell script containing “exec /usr/local/bin/growlnotify.wrapped -H localhost ${1+$@}”

This forces growlnotify to use the network to communicate with growl. (The script could also check that it is not already invoked with the “-H” option, I just did not need to care, maybe you would.)

Cheers

By: Mike Breen

Mike Breen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:08:55 +0000

This solved my Growl problems on Leopard. Thanks guys.

By: mhagedorn

mhagedorn — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:58:00 +0000

yeah I upgraded. the growl guys confirmed it as a bug.

By: Wynn Netherland

Wynn Netherland — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:24:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Mike? I wanted to ask if you did a clean install or an upgrade to 10.5? Growlnotify did not work for me after my upgrade but I quickly found out that the upgrade had dropped my /usr/local/bin path out of my $PATH…

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:34:54 +0000

Hey, the html mangled both of the scripts, and I never really used such a complex .autotest script, but the applescript works flawlessly after some character replacement. I put it in pasties:

growlnotify.scpt – http://pastie.caboo.se/112911 .autotest I use – http://pastie.caboo.se/112912