Growl Configuration in AIM for Mac
Posted Jul 14th 2009 6:05PM by Larry Aasen
Filed under: Member Education, AIM for Mac
We added support for Growl in AIM for Mac version 1.5 so users could get notifications when new IMs arrived, and when buddies went online and offline. There are a few other Growl events as well. To see these events and more, display the Growl settings where you can enable and disable each Growl event separately.
- Run the System Preferences application.
- In the Other section at the bottom of the System Preferences window, click on Growl.
- On the Growl settings window, click on the Applications tab.
- Click the AIM application in the list and then click the Configure... button at the bottom of the page.
- Click the Notifications tab.
- There you will see a Notification pop up button that is displaying Alerts. Click on that pop up button.
- There you will see a list of all of the notification events that are supported by AIM.
- Select the event you want to configure, like "Buddy Signed In".
- You can click the check box next to Enabled to turn on that notification. The change takes place immediately.
We hope you enjoy the usefulness of Growl notifications. Take some time to get familiar with the other Growl settings to make your Growl experience more pleasing to you.
Larry Aasen
AOL Mac Team
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Step #1 wants you to run the System Preferences application. In what program???? I don't see any Growl option in AOL Desktop or Mac preferences.
Lately, I have been getting annoying sounds when I am online, and occasionally, a notification that an IM session could not be established. Are these sounds an indication that someone or something is trying and failing to IM me? How do I get the noise to stop???
Posted at 1:13PM on Jul 22nd 2009 by FGosiewski
2. When will be released a decent ICQ for MAC?
Posted at 11:24PM on Jul 31st 2009 by Andrei