Is there a way to use the system voice with Skype to announce who comes online? 
Perhaps that would get around Skype saying it has a new window when someone 
comes online or sends a chat, so it could be put to good use.
Thanks,
Rachel
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Doug Lee <d...@dlee.org> wrote:

> If your directions are correct, I am curious why just turning off
> visual notifications entirely does not get rid of the "Skype has new
> window" announcements. I don't have Growl, so that choice is dimmed in
> my case. But I unchecked "Display visual notifications," and I still
> get numerous "new window" announcements. I want them to go away.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:16:21PM -0500, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
>   Gee, you made much too much work for yourself for nothing.  All you
>   really needed to do was go in to your Sype prefs window via
>   command/comma, and, from there, go to the tool bar and choose the
>   notifications tab.  From there, choose the overview tab.  Inside here,
>   just VO=right until you see the type of notification style.  If it
>   keeps saying "Skype has new window", it's set for default
>   notifications.  You want to set this for Growl.  then, you're set.
> 
>   Sincerely,
>   The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>   Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>   Skype name:
>   barefootedray
>   On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter
>   <[1]markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I just stopped Growl, and before that I removed Skype from its table
>     of applications for which it has set preferences, trying to get this
>     to stop, and that was before I updated Skype.  The behavior hasn't
>     changed from before the update.  I'll reboot with Growl up and the
>     Skype references changed to see if that fixes it.
>     o Mark BurningHawk Baxter
>     o AIM, Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
>     o MSN:  [2]burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
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>     o [3]http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
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