Message Notification Preferences

[mensido]

When I receive a message from a friend, the message window automatically pops up on my screen. I don't want that. All i want is the dock icon to bounce and display the number of messages i have. I dont want any other notification whatsoever. HELP.

[zac]

Other than hiding Adium itself, there is no way to hide the message window when a new, initial message comes in.

[Mastro]

Is this a feature that will be added on the future? Seems like an obvious setting someone might want.

Example, I have someone looking at something over my shoulder, I don't want the msg to popup right there for them to read.
Or I walk away from my PC for a moment without locking it, don't want to have to worry about what might popup on the screen.

[Robby]

Why not just hide Adium?

[Mastro]

I tried that, but the only "hide" I found was, hide adium when in background. This works almost just the way I want. Problem is when I do open the message, I want to keep it open to read it while I'm doing something else and I can't. The second you click off the message onto something else it hides the window as well. So the only way I can read the message is to stop what I'm doing and click back on adium. It's pretty annoying when you're having a conversation where you're mainly just reading, or need the info on it to do what you are working on. But then if I turn hide off, I get the problem where it pops up in front of everything on the initial message from anyone.

[alcmaer]

When you activate Adium, so that the Adium-options are on top of your screen, you click Adium and choose "Hide Adium" (4th from the bottom), is that what you are looking for?

[Mastro]

Ok just tried that option as well and no good. I was using the one in Advanced before. Unfortunatly, it still pops up the msg window on initial message.

[subtex]

I would love this functionality as well. A simple checkbox "hide initial chat windows" would do it.