I was getting this at first, and I disabled visual notifications entirely,  and 
am now not getting any announcements that Skype has a new window.   
On 2012-08-03, at 5:30 PM, Rachel Feinberg <walksi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>    o My home page:
>>    o [3]http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
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