You can skip the growlnotify step since we know Growl is working because of GrowlMail. Everything else Rachel sent though needs to be looked at. :)
Chris On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Rachel Blackman <[email protected]>wrote: > > that's a joke right? So when someone sends me a message on trillian and > I get no growl notification even though trillian is set up to notify me via > growl, growl should do nothing? It's a pathetic application. > > Don't get so stressed! Whatever's going wrong with your specific install > can be found and worked through; it's not the end of the world. :) > > As far as Trillian goes, it will generate Growl notifications for messages > only when you aren't actively focused on a specific conversation (as > there's no point to generate a bunch of messages for what you're already > seeing). However, if Trillian is not showing up in the Applications tab of > Growl at all, then I suspect something bigger is wrong; if Growl is not > registering Trillian, then it's not going to display the notifications. > > What I'd recommend trying next would be downloading growlnotify from the > website -- http://growl.info/downloads -- and then using it from Terminal > to test. Once growlnotify is installed, open Terminal and type: > > growlnotify -m "This is a test." > > If that works, then something's wrong on Trillian's side (and I can help > you diagnose that off-list). If that doesn't work, then something's not > right with your Growl install. From what I've seen on the list, there's > been a couple times when the App Store has installed Growl oddly; if > growlnotify doesn't work, you might want to try quitting Growl, > uninstalling it (from LaunchPad), then reinstalling it (from the App Store) > and starting it back up to see if it works after that. > > Hope that helps! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iEYEARECAAYFAk64tmoACgkQ3igvP5fqaXz6oQCeKMGIJPdHCE+AhpT5m315KmoT > I1EAnjPtPFqXHyxcDbDOYSwfJEmcd+S9 > =eKIk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- 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.
