Clear sticky Growl notifications with a keyboard shortcut - BrettTerpstra.com

vedran 15y, 83d ago

Works great, and its just what i needed!
Thanks

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Seth Milliken 15y, 121d ago

I had a similar itch, myself. There are a couple of enhancements and differences in my version:

<ul>
<li>mine posts a (non-sticky!) growl notification after restarting</li>
<li>mine is toggles Growl off and on rather than just restarting</li>
<li>mine kills and opens the menu item (this gives me a visual indicator of whether Growl is running; I generally don't use it as a menu)</li>
<li>mine is a shell script since it appears to run faster than an AppleScript (I use a Quicksilver "Run script" trigger for activation).</li>
</ul>

#!/bin/bash
GROWLAPP=/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app
GROWLMENU=/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlMenu.app
NOTIFICATION_SCRIPT=/usr/local/bin/growlnotify

function running {
  TARGET=$1
  MATCH=$2
  RESULT=`ps x | grep Growl | grep -v grep`
  if [[ $RESULT != "" ]]
  then
    killall -m -HUP Growl
  else
    open ${GROWLAPP}
    sleep 1
    ${NOTIFICATION_SCRIPT} 'Growl' -a'GrowlHelperApp' -m'Restarted'
    open ${GROWLMENU}
  fi
}

running

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I had a similar itch, myself. There are a couple of enhancements and differences in my version:&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;mine posts a (non-sticky!) growl notification after restarting&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;mine is toggles Growl off and on rather than just restarting&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;mine kills and opens the menu item (this gives me a visual indicator of whether Growl is running; I generally don't use it as a menu)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;mine is a shell script since it appears to run faster than an AppleScript (I use a Quicksilver "Run script" trigger for activation).&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;<pre><code>#!/bin/bash GROWLAPP=/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app GROWLMENU=/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlMenu.app NOTIFICATION_SCRIPT=/usr/local/bin/growlnotify function running { TARGET=$1 MATCH=$2 RESULT=`ps x | grep Growl | grep -v grep` if [[ $RESULT != "" ]] then killall -m -HUP Growl else open ${GROWLAPP} sleep 1 ${NOTIFICATION_SCRIPT} 'Growl' -a'GrowlHelperApp' -m'Restarted' open ${GROWLMENU} fi } running </code></pre>

Brett 15y, 121d ago

If you want a toggle, this is great (I just want to restart it to clear out a bunch of sticky notifications from the keyboard). If I may, I'd suggest that the killall -m could be a bit general, as it would match every process with "Growl" in the name. You might try: RESULT=ps auxwww|grep GrowlHelperApp|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}' and then kill $RESULT. Works great, though!

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Jason Clarke 15y, 196d ago

This is awesome. Thanks!

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