Interesting idea; thanks Devon.

On Aug 8, 9:35 pm, Devon Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not necessarily; What you could do is stop fast-user switching and start 
> using Lion's brilliant new Remote Desktop feature, logging into a specific 
> user's console on a computer. What you'd end up doing at that point would be 
> "remotely controlling" your work (or personal) screen from the other. You 
> could have growl running in whatever user you're logged in as, and the other 
> growl publishing via network events. There are a couple things that I don't 
> know but could probably be worked around:
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> 1) Pretty sure Remote Desktop doesn't connect to localhost, so you'll need to 
> mess around with /etc/hosts or other ways to advertise another service.
> 2) Whether or not Growl can listen/push to different ports, so two different 
> instances of Growl can coexist on the same host.
> 3) Whether or not Apple suspends applications that are not being used in an 
> "Active" console (ie: Primary console or remote console)
>
> -Devon
>
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Rudy Richter wrote:
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> > I really don't think you're going to be able to do this. The OS
> > terminates the network connections among other things when you fast
> > user switch, so aside from the issue of getting growl notifications to
> > the right instance of Growl.app, the apps you're wanting notifications
> > from aren't actively doing the job you're wanting them to do.
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> > -rudy
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> > On Aug 8, 9:04 pm, ac6rm <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Any way to do this?  I have my MacBook Pro set up with two users, a
> >> personal and a work-related.  I keep both users up and fast-switch
> >> between them.  I'd like to be able to keep my email, IM clients, etc.
> >> COMPLETELY separate, but be notified of activity  by either user no
> >> matter the console I'm on.
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> >> Thanks!
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