OK, let me respond to this. I'll add my responses following your comments below:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2009, at 08:48:41, Dick Guertin wrote: > > I installed Adium so I could use Stanford's IM system. Part of that > > install asked me to install Growl … > > Not exactly true. You had already installed Adium; the prompt comes up > when you run Adium for the first time. > Nitpicking again. You know what I meant when I said "part of that install". > > > Next thing I know, strange files are showing up in my Trash. Every > > start or restart of my computer leaves Recovered Files in the > > Trash. Where were they coming from, I asked myself. > > That's what we want to know. My question stands: What application's > name is in the filenames of these files? > I could not see any recognizable Application names. I'd have to restart my computer to get another set of Recovered Files. I may do that and send a separate response with that information. > > > There was no "GrowlMenu" application or control panel, so when Peter > > started talking about that, I had no idea what he was talking about. > > My apologies. I shouldn't be throwing around under-the-hood names of > Growl features like that. > OK > > > I still don't see GrowlMenu, unless that means the Growl icon on the > > menu bar, which only appears if I open System Preferences -> Growl. > > Yes, it does mean that. > > So, what happens when you uncheck and recheck the “Show Growl icon in > the menu bar” checkbox? > Uncheck causes the icon to disappear, recheck causes it to reappear. > > > There are NO Login Items under Accounts having to do with Growl. > > Yet I keep being told there should be such items. > > Yes. If “Start Growl on login” is checked, then GrowlHelperApp should > be in your log-in items. Also, once the Growl icon in the menu bar has > appeared at least once, GrowlMenu should be in your log-in items. > I do NOT have "Start Growl at login" checked, yet when I look at Growl in System Preferences, Growl is running. > > > What would have installed them? > > They are already installed, being inside the Growl preference pane. If > GrowlHelperApp were not installed, Growl would not work at all: You > would not see Growl notifications. Likewise, if GrowlMenu were not > installed, you would not be able to have the Growl icon in your menu > bar. > > The log-in items list is just that: A list. Log-in items are simply > entries in the list, like names in a guestbook. There is no separately- > installable file that defines a log-in item; GrowlHelperApp is the > application that receives and displays notifications, and if you have > Growl set to start on log-in, then GrowlHelperApp itself should have > an entry in the list. > So what you're saying is that Accounts -> Login Items has NOTHING to do with what you call "log-in". Everything is in Growl Preference Pane. > > > That's the basis of my assertion that Growl wasn't properly installed. > > If you have Growl in System Preferences, and Growl shows notifications > and the Growl icon can appear in your menu-bar, then Growl is properly > installed. > The confusion for me was the fact that there are Login Items under Accounts in System Preferences, and those in Growl are separate. That's new to me. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
