On Aug 29, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > The same is true of Growl itself. If you want the app that processes > notifications (GrowlHelperApp) to run at log-in, so that you can have > Growl notifications from the moment you log in, you need > GrowlHelperApp in your log-in items. >
Nitpick: GHA launches on demand; the checkbox is superfluous as far as I'm aware. -Evan > The controls to do this with GrowlMenu and GrowlHelperApp are the > “Start Growl at login” and “Show Growl icon in the menu bar” > checkboxes in the Growl preference pane. > > You mentioned that you have the latter checkbox checked but GrowlMenu > still doesn't start at log-in. It should add itself to the log-in > items on launch. Unchecking the box and re-checking it will quit and > re-launch GrowlMenu. > >>>> 3. If I stop Growl, leave the System Preferences, and come back, >>>> it >>>> is still stopped, but the icon appears on the menu bar all through >>>> that sequence. >>> >>> GrowlMenu is separate from the process that actually handles Growl >>> notifications. Turning one off doesn't affect the other. >>> >> Why wasn't GrowlMenu installed for me? > > It was. GrowlMenu and GrowlHelperApp are both inside the Growl > prefpane. > >> What's the point of the "Start Growl at login" check-box? > > It sets Growl to start at log-in (by putting GrowlHelperApp into your > Login Items). > >>>> 4. When I start (or restart) my computer, apparently Growl is >>>> started, even though I did NOT select "Start Growl at login", and I >>>> don't see the Growl icon on the menu bar. >>> >>> What leads you to conclude that Growl is started? >> >> When I open System Preferences, and click on "Growl", … > > OK, that's not “when [you] start (or restart) [your] computer”. > >> … three things happen: >> 1. Growl's icon appear on the munu-bar. >> 2. System Preferences says "Growl is running" (but I didn't start >> it. and don't have "Start Growl at login"). > > Those two things happen when you open the Growl preference pane > because you have them set to happen (GrowlMenu turned on, Growl turned > on) but not to happen at log-in. > > Growl is on by default when you install it, but if it's not in your > log-in items, it doesn't open at log-in. When you open the Growl > prefpane, it checks whether you have Growl turned on and whether it's > running; if the answers are yes and no, respectively, then it starts > Growl, on the theory that it had crashed or something. The same goes > for GrowlMenu. > > The problem is one of two things: > > 1. You want GrowlHelperApp to run at log-in so that it can display > notifications, and you want GrowlMenu to run at log-in so that it can > display Growl's status and provide ready access to control it, but you > do not have these two applications in your log-in items. The controls > in the prefpane let you do this. > 2. You don't want Growl at all, and yet you installed it. In this > case, the solution is simply to remove it. > >> 3. Another instance of the "...growlRegDict" file is created >> somewhere I can find. I know that because the file appears in >> Recovered Files in the Trash when I restart, with the date-time >> stamp of when I opened System Preferences -> Growl. So I would >> suspect those files are created by Growl itself. > > They are created by the Growl frameworks being used by the > applications whose names the .growlRegDict files bear. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
