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Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! by Ben Brownings Blog » irssi, screen, and growl… Nerdy goodness.

Ben Brownings Blog » irssi, screen, and growl… Nerdy goodness. — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:17:50 +0000

[...] SOMEONE is doing irssi in screen and wants growl notifications”. As ridiculous as it sounds, someone was. I took their approach, briefly outlined below, and customized it a little to make me happy. For [...]

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! by Ben

Ben — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:36:25 +0000

Excellent info, thank you! Naturally I could not resist tinkering

I added this:

Host mychathost
Hostname mychathost.dayjob.com
PermitLocalCommand yes
LocalCommand ~/bin/growl_irc.sh

to ~/.ssh/config. Now when I ‘ssh mychathost’ it automagically starts up, with one less little script running Also, I modified the growl_irc.sh script to use -q in its ssh so as to not show me issue.net all the time on STDERR.

If you had multiple irssi hosts, you could even use the `%h’ variable to pass the hostname to growl_irc, make a $0-%h pidfile, not start if the pidfile exists and is linked to a pid, and make the growlnotify use %h as the subject… Voila, multihost irssi growlage.

Comment on Meet Maeby and Lucy by lerxst

lerxst — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:05:51 +0000

I agree. Update required!

Comment 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.

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! 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)

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! by Persistent IRC | Threadbox.net

Persistent IRC | Threadbox.net — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:16:32 +0000

[...] notifications for mentions/PM’s! I just actually set it up on my Mac with Growl according to this article. I did it once under linux, [...]

Comment on Happy Sysadmin Day by Laura Thomson

Laura Thomson — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:35:11 +0000

Webtools <3s you guys.

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! 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.

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! 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?

Comment on Irssi and Screen and Growl, oh my! by Antonio Touriño

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

Thanks for the walkthrough. Just the thing I needed.