Using fixed-width fonts with Growl

Question

I'd like to write a wrapper for growlnotify that growls output from cowsay.

$ cowsay 'this is cowsay'
 ________________ 
< this is cowsay >
 ---------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

I've hunted through all the available Growl themes & appearance options but can't work out how to change the font to fixed-width, so the ASCII-art output from cowsay isn't munged.

Could someone please tell me how to switch the font used by Growl?

Answer 1

Growl styles are essentially just CSS and HTML.

1. First find your styles in ~/Library/Application Support/Growl/Plugins.

2. Choose the theme you want to make monospaced. Make a backup copy of it.

3. Context-click on it and select "Show Package Contents"

4. Navigate into Contents -> Resources

5. Open the default.css file in your editor of choice.

6. Update the font-family declaration in html, body rule set to begin with the name of your preferred monospaced font, e.g. Ubuntu Mono.

7. Save.

8. Mooooooo!