Meebo + Fluid Jul 6 2008

Much like my boy Mike, I’ve grown tired of Adium too. The app itself is great, but unfortunately the connection with MSN seems to be rather flakey. So I tried out Meebo, and it rocks. I’m using Fluid so that I can have it open in it’s own window. The only thing lacking was IM notifications for when the Meebo window doesn’t have the focus – or should I say, the only thing that WAS lacking? I’ve written a basic user script for Meebo on Fluid that’ll display the name of any user talking to you on the dock badge for the Meebo Fluid instance, and the message they have sent will be displayed as a Growl notification. You can check out the script here.

The script itself is rather simple, and just piggybacks on the fact that Meebo changes the document title when the window doesn’t have the focus, and someone sends you an IM. Meebo will cycle through the name of the user talking, and the message they have sent, in the window title. The script simply regularly checks for changes to the window title, and then splits out the user, and their message, so as to display the user on the dock badge, and the user/message as a Growl notification. Once you focus on the Meebo window, Meebo ensures that the title returns to the default, and the notifications stop.

Hopefully this will be of use to others too, and if anyone is able to take it and improve it further, I’d like to hear about it!

adium • fluid • growl • javascript • meebo • userscripts