osx - Is there a mac app that will post a growl notification when an app starts/stops responding?
2013-07
Chris R
Basically, I want to get a growl display when either an app starts beachballing, or when a previously beachballed app wakes up and starts taking UI requests again. Does such a beast exist?
ridogi
I've never used Keep-It-Up but I can't think of anything else that does this (if it in fact works). It has a few strikes against it—not updated recently, costs money, and PPC build.
If you wanted to know when an application had crashed that would be possible with a shell script, but knowing when an app is not responding is a pretty tall order.
Edit: Here is a shell script I just wrote to check if an application is running:
#! /bin/bash
app="/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari"
checkrunning=$(ps -u username | grep $app | grep -v grep | grep -c $app)
if
test $checkrunning -gt 0
then
exit
else
growlnotify $app is not running
fi
To get this working you would need to:
- Enter your username in the script.
- Put the path of the app you want to monitor in the app variable in the script, keeping the quotes. I used Safari as an example.
- Set it to run once every X seconds or minutes with launchd or Lingon.
Caveat: I've never used growlnotify so you'll want to make sure I'm not missing an argument on that line. Also, this won't tell you if the app is not responding, just if it is not running at all, and you'll need to keep it running all the time or you will keep getting the growl notification.
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wemayfreeze
I'd like a hot-key to tell (ask politely) Growl to throw up a notification of what's currently playing in iTunes.
I've poked around a bit but couldn't find an answer "out there."
Any thoughts?
Orion751
If you prefer the format that GrowlTunes supplies, you can also create a script that uses it:
tell application "GrowlTunes" to show current track
My hacked Applescript posted below. This matches the Growl output of iScrobbler. Thanks to The Tentacle for the work! There's information on how to set Quicksilver to launch the script here.
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
-- Make a list of all the notification types
-- that this script will ever send:
set the allNotificationsList to {"iTunes Playing Track"}
-- Make a list of the notifications
-- that will be enabled by default.
-- Those not enabled by default can be enabled later
-- in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane.
set the enabledNotificationsList to {"iTunes Playing Track"}
-- Register our script with growl.
-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon
-- for this scripts notifications.
register as application "Growl iTunes Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList icon of application "iTunes"
set title_text to "Null"
set body_text to ""
set body_temp to ""
set has_artwork to false
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then
set trck to current track
if artworks of trck is not {} then
get artwork 1 of trck
set pic to data of result
set has_artwork to true
end if
set title_text to "Now Playing"
get name of trck
set body_text to "Track: " & result
get rating of trck
set rate to result / 20
repeat rate times
set body_temp to body_temp & "★"
end repeat
if rate is less than 5 then
repeat (5 - rate) times
set body_temp to body_temp & "☆"
end repeat
end if
set body_text to body_text & " (" & body_temp & ")" & return
get album of trck
set body_text to body_text & "Album: " & result & return
get artist of trck
set body_text to body_text & "Artist: " & result
end if
end tell
if has_artwork then
notify with name "iTunes Playing Track" title title_text description body_text application name "Growl iTunes Notification" pictImage the pic
else
notify with name "iTunes Playing Track" title title_text description body_text application name "Growl iTunes Notification" image from location "file:///Users/drewbeck/Library/Scripts/Custom/no_album.tiff"
end if
end tell
koenigdmj
You need a plugin for iTunes. Here it is.
8088
You can use an applescript for this (don't remember where I got this) -- I compile this to an application triggered by Quicksilver, to get immediate notification of what is playing when I want, keeping iTunes minimised at all times:
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
-- Make a list of all the notification types
-- that this script will ever send:
set the allNotificationsList to {"iTunes Playing Track"}
-- Make a list of the notifications
-- that will be enabled by default.
-- Those not enabled by default can be enabled later
-- in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane.
set the enabledNotificationsList to {"iTunes Playing Track"}
-- Register our script with growl.
-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon
-- for this scripts notifications.
register as application "Growl iTunes Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList icon of application "iTunes"
set title_text to "Nothing playing"
set body_text to ""
set has_artwork to false
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then
set trck to current track
if artworks of trck is not {} then
get artwork 1 of trck
set pic to data of result
set has_artwork to true
end if
get name of trck
set title_text to result
get time of trck
set title_time to result
set body_text to title_time & " =["
get rating of trck
set rate to result / 20
repeat rate times
set body_text to body_text & " ❤ "
end repeat
get artist of trck
set body_text to body_text & "] ❧ " & result
get album of trck
set body_text to body_text & " ⇒ " & result
end if
end tell
if has_artwork then
notify with name "iTunes Playing Track" title title_text description body_text application name "Growl iTunes Notification" pictImage the pic
else
notify with name "iTunes Playing Track" title title_text description body_text application name "Growl iTunes Notification"
"iTunesLibraryPlaylistIcon.icns"
end if
end tell