Colloquy on Snow Leopard – Growl Issues

By on September 2, 2009 in Mac / OSX

Update: Just after I posted this, the author of Colloquy posted on Twitter that the’s got a new Nightly that solves this problem in a “proper” way. Proves the power of Twitter works!

32-bit mode

I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and loaded up my IRC client, which happens to be Colloquy, and noticed that Growl stopped working! Checked Growl, Adium was managing to use it just fine.

Turns out that you need to load Colloquy in 32-bit mode as there is no 64-bit Growl API at present.

To do this:

  1. Go to Applications in Finder
  2. Find Colloquy
  3. Highlight it with a single left click
  4. Hit CMD-I or go to File -> Get Info
  5. Tick the ‘Open in 32-bit mode’ box
  6. Close the window
  7. Load up Colloquy

Can’t see why Colloquy needs 64-bits anyway. I’d rather it was limited to 4GB of RAM – the amount of memory leaks it tends to have!

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8 Responses to Colloquy on Snow Leopard – Growl Issues

  1. Zach September 3, 2009 at 1:34 am #

    Hey!

    Saw this post on Twitter and figured I’d leave a comment saying that we’ve (at Colloquy) released a nightly build that has Growl’s beta framework with 64bit support, so there’s no need to drop down to 32bit mode if you don’t want to. The (current) nightly can be grabbed from http://colloquy.info/downloads/nightlies/Colloquy-4630.zip.

    If you have any other questions/problems (*knocks on wood*), feel free to stop by our IRC channel, #colloquy on Freenode :)

    - Zach

  2. John Lindley September 3, 2009 at 3:57 pm #

    Awesome! I thought I was having a unique problem…

  3. AJ ONeal March 13, 2010 at 5:48 am #

    Hmm… I had to set mine to 32-bit mode for it to work with Growl. Regression?

    Thanks for the post!

  4. Paul April 28, 2010 at 5:09 pm #

    Thanks for the tip, very useful

    Just an observation though… the dig about memory usage seems a bit unnecessary, given the author was kind enough to help you.
    Im not connected to Colloquy in anyway, Im just sayin is all :p

  5. Lee April 28, 2010 at 9:25 pm #

    Any good developer should be able to cope with criticism of their application. Its just part of the way it goes.

  6. deurk May 21, 2010 at 10:46 am #

    Thanks for the tip, I googled colloquy+growl and now enjoy notifications back…

  7. Patrick Connolly March 16, 2011 at 2:01 am #

    Thanks for this! Still useful :)

  8. Patrick Connolly March 16, 2011 at 2:02 am #

    Oh hey might want to add a step about restarting growl too. The notifications show up, but if you’re looking at the Growl > Applications page, Colloquy doesn’t show up till you do this

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