[warra]

I've seen some screenshots with adium, using the trick to make the background the same as your desktop so it looks transparent. The space i keep adium in is white, and i made the background white, but it still has the shadow in the back. Is there an os system preference to exclude adium from shadows; or is it a certain adium theme? Something else?

[juanvaldes]

years ago there was a haxie that removed drop shadows. Not sure if that kind of a thing is still kicking around though.

[mchladek]

If you're talking about the contact list, in Adium go to Preferences->Advanced->Contact List. Under "Appearances" uncheck the box next to "Show window shadow." That should do it.

[wataru]

Why are you making it fake transparent when you could just make it actually transparent in the prefs?

[warra]

Yea but if you just make it transparent you still see the drop shadow...but mchladek's method is what I was talking about.

[wataru]

The window shadow is completely orthogonal to what you were talking about. You made it fake transparent instead of actually transparent. That's what I don't get.

[warra]

I dont need the list to be transparent because i dont keep it on top of everything else, I wanted the list to blend in with the wallpaper I had, but it couldn't since the drop shadow was on and it would outline the list even when the backgrounds (both white) were matching. In order to eliminate this problem, I wanted to remove the shadow, which I did.

[juanvaldes]

Originally Posted by wataru

Why are you making it fake transparent when you could just make it actually transparent in the prefs?

Thought it was there once upon a time. Been ages since I've setup my look and they changed everything around on me.

[SS3 GokouX]

They've changed it so you can't make anything less than 5% opacity. Apparently some people were having issues with mouse clicks going through the list and switching focus to the Desktop.

[Thinine]

Opacity shouldn't affect click through. Make a Terminal window completely transparent and you can still click on it.

[jay3ld]

srry to intrude in on this post but i am a new user at Adium and love it
but today somebody added me to there list and was able to talk to me for like 3 mins before adium told me they added me...
now back on msn messenger i had the option of blocking anyone who wasnt in my contact list.
this doesnt seem to be here for adium or am i just missing something???
and i have yahoo account i also sign on (using aim) and it was using a different group name than my msn one. but i moved it to the one on my msn group and all is fine. if i log out and in it goes back to the other group instead of staying no mater what i do. drag and drop or get info on them and change there group... nothing

btw adium is really nice program

[Catfish_Man]

Originally Posted by jay3ld

now back on msn messenger i had the option of blocking anyone who wasnt in my contact list.
this doesnt seem to be here for adium or am i just missing something???
)

This is likely to be included in version 0.9

[jay3ld]

ahhh good to know im not blind and thats its in the near future (0.8.4 only 6 more )

[SS3 GokouX]

Originally Posted by Thinine

Opacity shouldn't affect click through. Make a Terminal window completely transparent and you can still click on it.

You're right, it shouldn't. But apparently, for some people, it was. I've never had a problem with Adium or other apps using extremely low opacities, which is why I still don't think that the opacity was real problem, but maybe something fishy in their code.

(Adium rocks.)

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally Posted by juanvaldes

years ago there was a haxie that removed drop shadows. Not sure if that kind of a thing is still kicking around though.

That's now built into WindowShade, but the Shadow Killer App is still on unsanity's site under the freebie category.