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Panther, iChat Sleep Woes
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I never use iChat, but ever since installing Panther, everytime my Mac wakes from sleep, it launches iChat. It is not listed in the login items, and I can't find any iChat prefs to turn this off.....anyone have any ideas??
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Originally posted by Phrogman:
I never use iChat, but ever since installing Panther, everytime my Mac wakes from sleep, it launches iChat. It is not listed in the login items, and I can't find any iChat prefs to turn this off.....anyone have any ideas??
Does anyone have an answer to this? I'm getting increasingly frustrated by this. I keep hoping that each update will solve the problem, but it still happens.
To describe the problem in more detail (because strangely the other Panther users I know have not experienced it): when I'm doing something very processor intensive, say editing my iPhoto library, or when I'm running a second monitor, and sometimes on waking from sleep, I get the spinning beachball and then eventually iChat launches itself and comes to the foreground.
I'm running 10.3.4 (need to update my sig) on a 1ghz Powerbook 12" with 768mb RAM.
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Join Date: May 2002
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In the iChat preferences, go to "General." Make sure "Show status in menu bar" is unchecked.
When you have that turned on, an iChat menu extra appears in the right corner of your menu bar. And when that's there, you can be logged on even when the iChat application is closed. When somebody IMs you, the app launches.
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Thanks, the problem is though that I don't want to run iChat unless I specifically choose to launch it myself. Also, there's just the general irritation of a persistent bug in OSX (I assume it's a bug of some kind, though I'm kind of surprised that no-one else has reported it).
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Make sure that in iChat -> Preferences -> General you have When I quit iChat, set my status to Offline turned on.
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Anyone else have any thoughts on this issue? I don't think it's anything to do with the settings in iChat, as I said the problem arises when the processor is working especially hard and the SBOD is taking its time - or alternatively after waking the PB from sleep. iChat then launches. It is and always has been set to go offline when I quit, and it launches offline.
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Originally posted by mintcake:
Anyone else have any thoughts on this issue? I don't think it's anything to do with the settings in iChat, as I said the problem arises when the processor is working especially hard and the SBOD is taking its time - or alternatively after waking the PB from sleep. iChat then launches. It is and always has been set to go offline when I quit, and it launches offline.
Never experienced this, ever, never ever. Ever.
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Yeah, that's what everyone else says, which is why this is so WEIRD! 
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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ALL software questions belong in the Software forum.
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