Hi Paul and others,
I finally got around to playing with Growl. I followed this thread and
checked out the applications table in ?Growl. For me right now all there is in
the table is Skype and Dropbox. I saw others mention mail and even getting
sounds for power being unplugged or for USB mounting. Can someone give me a
tip on how to get more of these options.
Thanks,
Eric Caron
On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:35 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi Jef,
> If you do find out why growl is not entirely awake, please let us know.
> Paul.
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
>
>> Well, now it has started working - sort of.
>>
>> Mail is now identifying a new message for me. I needed to stop Growl and
>> then restart it. Restarting the computer didn't seem to do it.
>>
>> I am still unable to get any sound to play when I switch from battery to
>> charger or the other way. NOt sure why but, I continue to investigate.
>>
>> Thx,
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 2011-09-05, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. I have done all that. This is why I was wondering if there was a
>>> hidden trick that I couldn't find or didn't know about.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On 2011-09-05, at 12:08 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jeff,
>>>> You can instruct growl to make a sound. Look in the per program
>>>> configuration, but be ware that you must enable the sound for each
>>>> application in turn. It involves some repetitive work but I think that's
>>>> the problem.
>>>> To get into the growl configuration window, go to system preferences and
>>>> find growl there. You need to click the applications tab, and in the list
>>>> you find, highlight the program you want to configure sound for, say Skype
>>>> or something else. Then, click configure and go into the second tab sheet
>>>> of the configure dialog. The tab is called notifications, and there you
>>>> enable your sound.
>>>>
>>>> Hth,
>>>> Paul.
>>>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have set this all up but, Growl never makes a sound. I am wondering if
>>>>> there are any hidden tricks I need to do to get this working?
>>>>>
>>>>> I realize this may be difficult for you to identify without investigating
>>>>> my system but, perhaps somebody else has had this problem and can
>>>>> identify how they solved it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thx,
>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2011-09-05, at 11:32 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Tracey,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In growl, found via system preferences and then growl, you can set and
>>>>>> further configure a default notification style. One of them is speech.
>>>>>> If you set that as the default, then it will automatically be chosen for
>>>>>> new programs you use growl with, but you can also configure the growl
>>>>>> notification scheme on a per program basis if you want. By the way, any
>>>>>> new program that supports growl notifications, will automatically be
>>>>>> added to the growl window. This is because growl is always running, and
>>>>>> growl sees which program you are launching. If it happens to be one of
>>>>>> those that it recognizes as being growl compatible,then growl will
>>>>>> automatically add that program name for you in its own window. Which
>>>>>> notification scheme, either one out of the many visual ones, or the
>>>>>> speech one, is chosen, depends on what you set as the default scheme for
>>>>>> new programs.
>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Traci wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Holy cow Paul, that was an excellent tutorial. Thank you very much.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Under Growl display options, should I select speech instead of any
>>>>>>> visual choice? Does this mean speech will give me notifications?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is fun to try to figure out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Traci
>>>>>>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tracey,
>>>>>>>> Let's explain that step by step so you don't get lost.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First off. A disk image is a normal file on your hard drive. If you
>>>>>>>> click it, os10 will mount it as if it were a normal volume. In other
>>>>>>>> words, just like when you insert a cd, it gets mounted as an icon on
>>>>>>>> your desktop that you can open, browse etc, a dmg, once clicked, will
>>>>>>>> mount a new imaginary disk on to your desktop.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First thing to do is Click the dmg. It doesn't matter where you have
>>>>>>>> the dmg. inside downloads is the easiest. if you're new to images
>>>>>>>> then close everything that pops up till you are in your desktop, and
>>>>>>>> then look around there. You will find the growl volume on the desktop.
>>>>>>>> Just as you dive into macintosh hd, into the contents of a cd or an
>>>>>>>> external usb drive, you open the growl volume the same way. From the
>>>>>>>> desktop, press command down arrow on the growl volume icon. A new
>>>>>>>> window will open, showing the contents of the image file that growl
>>>>>>>> sits in.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Once you have the newly mounted volume open, look at the files it
>>>>>>>> contains. You will hear that the current screen look and feel is set
>>>>>>>> to image browser, and not to list view or column view. To switch this
>>>>>>>> back to a normal list view that you can read as normal, just press
>>>>>>>> command and the number 2 and you will hear, as list view, checked.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now, explore the contents of the image file. It now looks like any
>>>>>>>> other folder on the mac. Find the item named growl dot pkg. A pkg file
>>>>>>>> is an installer bundle. If you click a pkg file, the installer inside
>>>>>>>> it will run. You can do that now.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Next, follow the instructions in the installer screens. Don't be
>>>>>>>> distracted by all the unnecessary repetitive information on these
>>>>>>>> screens. I find these installers terrible, but they are doable. Follow
>>>>>>>> their instructions until you get a finish or a close button, and the
>>>>>>>> installer ends.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now, you are back n the mounted disk image and growl installation is
>>>>>>>> done. Now you need to perform a few final steps.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As said, you are now back inside the mounted image volume where you
>>>>>>>> found the growl dot pkg installer. You came here by pressing command
>>>>>>>> plus down from the desktop, and you close it again by pressing command
>>>>>>>> w. You will land back in your desktop.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now, unmount the volume where you installed growl from. Find the growl
>>>>>>>> icon on the desktop and press command e for eject. If you type command
>>>>>>>> e on a cd icon on your desktop, the cd disk would pop out of your
>>>>>>>> drive. In the case of unmounting a dmg volume, nothing pops out but
>>>>>>>> the growl desktop icon, containing the installer for it, will
>>>>>>>> disappear to clean your desktop.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now, you have growl installed. But, there will be no menu item to go
>>>>>>>> to, not in the finder menu bar, not in the apple menu, not even in the
>>>>>>>> vo m m, status menus. The place to turn on growl, and to tweak its
>>>>>>>> options, is system preferences. The place where you go for your system
>>>>>>>> stuff, vo m, and then down to system preferences. One of the last
>>>>>>>> items within system preferences will be the item for growl. Open it
>>>>>>>> and configure growl. Close the growl panel with command w as normal.
>>>>>>>> If you want, you can now get rid of the growl dmg disk image file,
>>>>>>>> because growl is installed and running.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now that this is clear and done, you should go to the growl website,
>>>>>>>> and read all of its documentation. It's not very much, and it will
>>>>>>>> help you understand and work with growl.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>>>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Traci wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you, I like the sound of this growl.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ok, I am still very new to downloading and installing. I did some
>>>>>>>>> googling and learned the following:
>>>>>>>>> To Install the application, open the disk image, and double click in
>>>>>>>>> the Growl.prefPane
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can someone break that down for me? I have my set up to download my
>>>>>>>>> disk images to my desktop, is this a case where I should keep it in
>>>>>>>>> my downloads folder? IE, I should not delete this disk image?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Once I open the disk image, then go over to the preference pain, I'm
>>>>>>>>> done? Should I close that window and go over to system preferences
>>>>>>>>> to begin setting up Growl?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm looking forward to figuring this out further. Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Traci
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>> From: Paul Erkens
>>>>>>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:01 AM
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: more system sound feedback?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Tracey,
>>>>>>>>> Well, each case where you want to have sound on the mac is indeed
>>>>>>>>> possible, but you will have to know what to do. For example, Eric
>>>>>>>>> Caron already wrote about the progress bar that you can follow while
>>>>>>>>> a file is downloading. But growl is another option. To answer your
>>>>>>>>> questions: growl comes with an additional separate extension that you
>>>>>>>>> can install. So, first install growl, familiarize yourself with it,
>>>>>>>>> and then install the safari extension. This will let growl tell you
>>>>>>>>> when a download is complete. Regarding ejecting a usb disk: there is
>>>>>>>>> a growl extension that is called hardware growler. It also comes in
>>>>>>>>> the dmg bundle that growl comes in, if you download it. The hardware
>>>>>>>>> growler can keep an eye on the battery status, and also notify of
>>>>>>>>> hardware changes such as mounting and unmounting external partitions
>>>>>>>>> etc. Worth taking a look at.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>>>>> On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Traci wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is there a way to have more sound feedback on Mac? I'm still quite
>>>>>>>>>> new, and I'm switching from windows, it is something that has
>>>>>>>>>> surprised me.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> For example, when downloading a program from Safari, how do I know
>>>>>>>>>> it's progress or when it is completed?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also when I connected or ejected an external hard drive, I don't
>>>>>>>>>> remember hearing a sound.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>>> Traci
>>>>>>>>>>
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