(first off, my mail client(s) are screwey as always, so in case this is a double-post, I apologize)
So far the "best" IM client I've found is GAIM - and the best "use-mode" I've found for it is to allow it to pop up a window in whatever the currently active frame is. This way I am immediately notified and i can either reply/close it, move it elsewhere (mark & attach) to have a "long" conversation, or whatever... there is 1 problem with this, and 1 "feature" request :) problem - if I'm currently in a full-screened app (99% of the time this is an xterm), and an IM pops up, it gets it's own full screen, and I can not "un-full-screen" it or "mark-attach" it elsewhere. it would be really nice to be able to take a fullscreen window and push it into an existing frame. feature - I find that i often hit Win+D (close window binding) about 1/8th of a second after i see a message pop in from someone. At this point I am powerless, so I have to go to the GAIM window (which is often quite a few screens/tabs away), CLICK (I hate this part) on the person that just IM'ed me, and ask him/her to please repeat what was said. It would be AWESOME if I could mark some apps (through the appropriate window info) to react differently to Win+D... what I would REALLY like is to unmap the window, but not destroy it, start a 3-5 second timer, and then kill the window after the timer runs out. If in those 3-5 seconds I hit some other magic key combo, the window is mapped back and I read the message i almost lost... any ideas on how this can be done? Mike
