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</h1> <p>Visual notifications are a means of unobtrusively informing you when things happen, for example when you receive a message. In their default configuration, they fade into the top-right corner of your screen for a moment and then fade out again.
</p> <p>Adium features comprehensive support for visual notifications by ways of OS X's very own
<a class="ext_link" href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5362">Notification Center
</a> (on OS X 10.8 and later), third-party software
<a class="ext_link" href="http://growl.info">Growl
</a> as well as built-in notifications called "Mist" (on OS 10.7 and older).
</p> <p>This page explains the three different notification mechanisms mentioned above. See
<a href="AdvancedFeatures-Events.html">Events
</a> on how to tell Adium when to display visual notifications.
<p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Notification Center support (OS X 10.8 and later)
</h3> <p align="center"> <img src="../gfx/NotificationCenterNotification.png" alt="" /></p> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Apple introduced "Notification Center" (NC) in OS X 10.8 ("Mountain Lion").
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <p align="center"> <img src="../gfx/GrowlNotification1.png" alt="" /></p> <p align="center"> <img src="../gfx/GrowlNotification2.png" alt="" /></p> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>The third-party application Growl.app has been around about as long as Adium itself – a long time before Apple introduced "Notification Center" (NC) in OS X 10.8 ("Mountain Lion").
</p> <p>While Growl.app is the obvious solution for users on previous versions of OS X, it also has a lot to offer to OS X users on 10.8, especially in the way of customisability and extendability. For example, there are dozens of different styles to choose from.
</p> <p>To install Growl.app either
<a class="ext_link" href="https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12">buy the application from the Mac App Store
</a> (recommended, it's not expensive), or get an older and free version from
<a class="ext_link" href="http://growl.info/downloads">http://growl.info/downloads
</a> (not recommended and not supported on OS X 10.8 and later).
</p> <p>If you have Growl.app installed and would prefer to use Notification Center notifications for Adium, you need to make the change in Growl's preferences.
</p> <p>To uninstall the Growl application, follow the
<a class="ext_link" href="http://growl.info/documentation/growl-package-removal.php">instructions on the Growl website
</a>.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Built-in notifications ("Mist", OS X 10.7 and older)
</h3> <p align="center"> <img src="../gfx/MistNotification.png" alt="" /></p> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>As of Adium 1.5, Adium is able to show Growl-style notifications on OS X versions 10.7 and 10.6 without the Growl application installed. This feature is called
<a class="ext_link" href="http://growl.info/notetodevelopers">Mist
</a>.
</p> <p>If you want to use a different style or use some of the more advanced features of Growl, you will have to either
<a class="ext_link" href="https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12">buy the application from the Mac App Store
</a> (recommended, it's not expensive), or get an older and free version from
<a class="ext_link" href="http://growl.info/downloads">http://growl.info/downloads
</a> (not recommended and not supported on OS X 10.8 and later).
</p> <p>To disable Mist notifications, enter this command in Terminal.app:
<code>defaults write -g com.growl.growlframework.mist.enabled -bool NO
</code>. Please note that this affects any apps that support built-in Mist notifications like Adium does.
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