Comments on: Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my!

By: jabba

jabba — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:04:36 +0000

Yeah, that works too. My problem is that an audible beep drives me crazy and a visual beep doesn’t help, since the whole point is that I’m not watching irc all the time, as it’s usually on my secondary monitor or out of the way somehow.

Meanwhile I stopped using screen and instead run irssi on my local box connected to a znc server, so I’ve modified the script here to not deal with all the ssh stuff and just tail the fnotify file locally. I’m pretty happy with it still.

By: zibvous

zibvous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:43:10 +0000

Call me old school but i’m just using the standard notification. name notified => highlight + beep
=> beep forwarded to my console
=> i hear beep

(alternative: sometimes i use the visual beep which just flashes the window – or could actually use growl if i had a mac and wanted that)

its much more simple and just as efficient imo.

For messages sent when i’m offline, i just read the highlight log when i cannot (spam of growl would sucks anyway)

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By: jabba

jabba — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:43:14 +0000

Sure. You could probably change the #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh or whatever you want. I don’t think the script is doing anything bash-specific. I just happen to default to #!/bin/bash for my scripts because I know it is always going to be there and be relatively the same on all distros.

By: teewuane

teewuane — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:19:44 +0000

hmm. i use zshell and i’m trying to think of a way to make this work. Can I have zshell run a bash command?

By: Antonio Touriño

Antonio Touriño — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:31:27 +0000

Thanks for the walkthrough. Just the thing I needed.

By: Lukas Blakk

Lukas Blakk — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:23:15 +0000

This is awesome and the only tweak I had to do was /script load autorun/fnotify.pl since my irssi was already running.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:27:20 +0000

Awesome. Thank’s mate. Just got a mac and this made it infinitely more enjoyable to use.

By: Bjarte Stien Karlsen

Bjarte Stien Karlsen — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:39:15 +0000

I had to use ~/.irssi/fnotify as the path but other then that it worked for me.

By: Jørgen

Jørgen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:35:42 +0000

Hey, just a tip. You say:

“So now my workflow is as follows: Open a terminal, type irc, once logged into the remote server, type irc again and I have my Irssi up and running with working growl notifications. Enjoy!”

If you change your local “irc” script to say “ssh -t user@hostname irc” instead of “ssh user@hostname
“, it will automatically start irc at the remote end for you.

Great article!