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git-dude is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
Notifications are via notify-send or kdialog on Linux and Growl on OS X.
Thanks mkulik!
This is a desktop information bar intended for use with XMonad and similar window managers. It is similar in spirit to xmobar; it is different in that it gives up some simplicity for a reasonable helping of eye candy. This bar is based on GTK+ (via gtk2hs) and uses fancy graphics where doing so is reasonable and useful.
A patched version of the popular “growl” notification system for Mac OS X, which compiles cleanly under XCode 4.1 and produces binaries for Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”.
Worth a look if you prefer the old, pre-App Store Growl.
statnot is a notification-daemon replacement for lightweight window managers like dwm and wmii. It receives and displays notifications from the widely used Desktop Notifications speficiation.
git-dude is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in given directory for new commits and branches and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
Using notify-send on Linux, or the aforementioned growlnotify on OS X.
Growl, the excellent system-wide notification system for OS X, is now available exclusively via the Mac App Store.
I use Growl a lot, mostly via growlnotify, and the new version is an absolute bargain at £1.49/$1.99.
I’m wary of the upgrade, though. A notification system should be completely invisible until it has something to tell you, but—unlike earlier versions which were configured via a System Preferences pane—Growl 1.3 is a full-blown menu bar app.
dunst is a lightweight notification-daemon for the libnotify. It can also be used as a standalone notification system. Dnotify displays messages received via dbus or as commandline argument in a fashion similar to dmenu and additionally prints them to stout.
This project sends notifications to a desktop computer when certain events happen on an Android device, such as the phone ringing, an SMS being received, or the battery running low.
Is there an iOS equivalent?
Phone Pipe lets you send push notifications to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad from the command line.
Requires the free Notifo app.
As an aside, I find the idea of moving all notifications off the desktop and on to a mobile device appealing. Desktop notifications are, by design, distracting, and there’s no easy way to mute, eg. Growl, for a while. Mobile devices are designed around notification—the ring of the ‘phone, the ping of the text message—and can be muted at the flick of a switch; notification via sound is less intrusive than an on-screen alert’s demand for immediate action, too.
Snarl is a notification system for Windows. It provides a standard, simple way for application to notify you, the end user, of important events
growlnotify is a command-line tool to post Growl notifications.
I’m not a big fan of notifications, but growlnotify comes in handy if you’re running a shell script on your Mac that will take a while to run, and don’t want to babysit it.
For example, the script that deploys my jekyll-powered weblog includes the following:
growlnotify Weblog Update Complete -m "jekyll, git and rsync have done their stuff"
