irssi

Irssi is an awesome irc client written in perl.

• http://irssi.org/

I love irssi and use it to communicate with coworkers and friends. I also love the fact that it's in perl, which means I can hack away at it. But i always found myself using other irc clients because irssi was very bad about getting my attention when someone messaged me.

growl

Growl is a wonderful program for OsX that can display a pretty little popup notification. There are libraries for lots of languages including perl, and also a command line script.

• http://growl.info/

It even comes with a very small script to provide some notifications for irssi.

growl-notify.pl

This is the irssi plugin I wrote to get my attention. Now irssi has everything I need!

features

• notifications for private messages
• notifications for hilighted words
• notifications for specified public messages
• configurable sticky (stay up until clicked) or non-sticky (disappear after a few seconds) notifications
• saves your config to a file in YAML format

usage

You can configure notifications while irssi is running by using:

        /growl

With no arguments, this will display a help message.

download

• growl-notify.pl

installation

• Put this file in your ~/.irssi/scripts/ directory
• either restart irssi or else run this command in irssi: '/script load growl-notify.pl'
• type /growl to get configuration options
• to automatically run this script at startup time, move to ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/

requirements

• irssi - perl irc client available at http://irssi.org/.
• Irssi.pm - perl library, comes with irssi.
• growl - mac osx alert client, available at http://growl.info/.
• Mac::Growl.pm - perl library available on http://growl.info/.
• YAML.pm - perl library available on CPAN - http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/YAML-0.35/

future

I would like to add a few new features including:

• support buddy icons, as soon as the new verson of the growl perl library is released that supports images.
• optionally pull info from emacs bbdb including nickname and icon
• notifications for other events including:
  • server connect / disconnect
  • buddy connect / disconnect

-- AleX - 08 Jan 2005