Turn off "open a message window" when receiving me

[whosebob]

I have Adium/growl set to display a sticky growl notification when i receive a message from one of my buddies.

But, when I do receive a message, a "message window" opens automatically. Is there any way to disable that action?

I've tried looking in preferences under "Events" (that's how I added growl notifications to some of the events), but "open a message window" is listed as something I can add to various events; none of the events are set up such that I can remove that action from them.

Thanks for your help.

[jstamos]

Nope.

[Arenzera]

I have Adium/growl set to display a sticky growl notification when i receive a message from one of my buddies.

But, when I do receive a message, a "message window" opens automatically. Is there any way to disable that action?

I've tried looking in preferences under "Events" (that's how I added growl notifications to some of the events), but "open a message window" is listed as something I can add to various events; none of the events are set up such that I can remove that action from them.

Thanks for your help.

Um, what would be the point in having Adium not open a new message window/tab? How else is a user going to reply to the message?

I don't get it...

Kiel :-)

[da_baum]

*sigh* If you REALLY don't want a new window popping up, just open a message window and minimize it (click on the middle button in the top left corner of the window, command+M, or double click the little bar at the top of the window all work) and it SHOULD stay in the dock. Just tried it and it worked for me, so that's probably the best option you have right now.

[Arenzera]

Don't new message windows open up in the background anyway?

In addition, there is the preference to hide the message window(s) when Adium is not the frontmost application... Preferences > Advanced (toolbar item) > Messages (sidebar item) > Window Handling.

Kiel :-)

[Githon]

I think he basically wants it to behave like ICQ does, where someone sends you a message and all it does is flash a message icon next to their name until you click it.

Why he would want that, I'm not sure.

[whosebob]

I think he basically wants it to behave like ICQ does, where someone sends you a message and all it does is flash a message icon next to their name until you click it.

Yes, that's right. Though, I would like the dock icon to flash (it does that already, of course) AND I would like the growl message to appear; BUT not have the conversation window open up until I either click the growl message or switch over to AdiumX and open it manually.

Why he would want that, I'm not sure.

Well, it just seems like it ought to work that way, or that at least it should be possible to configure it to work that way. To each his own . . .

Thanks for your input, everyone.

[The_Tick]

No we are not doing this