If you’ve found yourself hooked by growl but away from OSX (or in a mixed OSX/linux network), Mumble seems to be a pretty useful Growl-clone for linux. It not only clones the functionality, but also the protocol, such that it should be able to receive notifications from your mac boxes, if your mac boxes are sending events to the network.

Disclaimer: I’ve not actually used it over the network, just with local processes. And the pidgin plugin that it comes with (which listens for pidgin on dbus and rebroadcasts the dbus event as a growl/mumble event, as far as I can tell) is broken, at least on x64. But in general, it’s functional and almost as clean looking as growl.

I’m not so sure; I’m using Growl 1.1.4 with growlnotify 1.1.4 and triggering it with autotest. I’ve experimented with pulling the generated growlnotify command line out of the autotest notification and running that repeatedly.

I got a 33% failure rate — granted, much better than what I’ve seen other folks report – but at the beginning of a coding session, its enough to make me wonder if my test code didn’t work.

I’ll give the workaround a shot

As of September 8, 2008, the fine folks at growl have acknowledged the defect and logged a new bug against it (https://bugs.launchpad.net/growl/+bug/267767)