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I'm a Mac newbie (<1 month) but longtime UNIX person. I have one iMac and lots of Linux systems throughout the house. It would be useful if Growl messages could sound an alert on my Linux systems.

Growl has a network forwarding option, but it seems to require Bonjour/zeroconf. Is there any way to hardcode an IP address + UDP port? The protocol looks simple, so I can write my own Linux listener.

You could write a display plugin that uses a network connection to display the notifications. However, as you mentioned, would also need a daemon running on linux waiting for the notifications.

I am completing final testing of a display plugin that uses LCDproc http://www.lcdproc.org to display notifications. LCDproc can use curses, text, or any number of brands of attatched LCD character displays to output the notifications. The connection from the client to the server uses TCP/IP.

Here is a screenshot of Growl notifications running on lcdproc using the curses display in the terminal window!
http://home.sandiego.edu/~epooch/images ... Window.jpg You could run this from any linux box. I even had growl notifications going to my wireless Zaurus.

GrowLCDproc is now available!

This will allow you to view Growl notifications on any character LCD supported by LCDproc, or on any terminal using the curses or text drivers.

http://home.sandiego.edu/~epooch/cgi-bi ... Dproc.html

Cool!