Feature Requests item #990609, was opened at 2004-07-13 21:07 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=990609&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Antonio Ramirez (an-to-nio) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: global hot key for popping up the buddy list Initial Comment: It would be nice to have a global hot key that brings up the buddy list. (By global I mean that it is available outside of gaim.) Under windows, I tried to emulate this by setting up a Windows Explorer hotkey that runs gaim. The problem is that gaim allows multiple instances, so if I use the hotkey while gaim is running, it starts a new gaim that fights with the other one for the logged-in accounts. (So perhaps an alternative way to do this is to provide an option to disallow multiple instances, and having new runs of gaim with this option activated bring up the buddy list in the existing instance instead.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-17 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ivan Wong (banandgia2) Date: 2005-07-22 03:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=425364 Please take a look at this plugin: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121046 Both Win32 and X11 backends are available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Antonio Ramirez (an-to-nio) Date: 2005-05-05 16:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=49762 It looks like the latest gaim disallows multiple instances. The thing is that this _still_ does not solve the problem of having a global hot key for the buddy list: a second run of gaim pops up an intrusive dialog box that one has to click away, saying that "a second instance of gaim already running", so one cannot smoothly just have the buddy list pop-up by running gaim a second time... So there is still no good solution to this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eric Blade (eblade) Date: 2004-07-18 20:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=158706 aha, there was another one similar to this, that suggested same thing.. a command-line-switch might be the best way to implement that for people.. have 'gaim --existing' or some such pop the existing instance into the foreground, or launch a new instance if there's not one already existing.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=990609&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
