Hi,
Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone
contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the
conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most
important conversation. Any suggestions please?
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone
> contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the
> conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most
> important
Kaushal,
The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus stealing during IM
conversations. This is something that the older messengers were doing
properly in the Windows 95 days.
Our office uses Pidgin + Bonjour + Windows 8 for our internal office
messaging and I still experience this b
Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom:
> The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus stealing during IM
> conversations. This is something that the older messengers were doing
> properly in the Windows 95 days.
The problem is that older messengers did this *im*properly,
0, 2013 8:01 PM
> To: Tres Finocchiaro
> Cc: support@pidgin.im
> Subject: Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04
>
> Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus
> stealing during IM
> >
On 22/05/2013 00:39, David Balažic wrote:
> There are people who actually _want_ focus stealing?
>
> Wow, at last I am on the winning side!
My favourite is when you are typing in a password without looking and
the IM window steals focus and you send the password to someone random.
Perhaps that wo
> *There are people who actually _want_ focus stealing?*
>
There are times when this functionality is very useful.
*IM window steals focus and you send the password to someone random.*
:)
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:17:40PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone
> contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the
> conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most
> i