Do you use Trillian?

Ed Kolis · #1 December 9th, 2002, 01:09 AM

Hmm, I'm having a few problems with Trillian that I can't seem to figure out, and this seems like a good enough place to ask about them...

If I set Trillian to load on Windows startup, I get two tray icons... eh? How do I prevent that?

Also, is there a way to set Trillian to automatically try to connect to the various services whenever an Internet connection is detected? It's a pain having to click "Global Reconnect" every time I go Online just in case there's someone who wants to chat...

Suicide Junkie · #2 December 9th, 2002, 01:16 AM

In the Connection manager, there is a checkbox on the right side labelled "auto connect to this account on startup"
Check that, and you should be all set.

As for loading on startup, I don't actually use that. With dialup or sympatico, you need to connect to the internet before you bother doing anything on it

[ December 08, 2002, 23:20: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Ed Kolis · #3 December 9th, 2002, 10:00 PM

I already have that checkbox on... guess it only tries to connect when the program loads (i.e. at Windows startup) and not when a connection is detected

Suicide Junkie · #4 December 10th, 2002, 01:05 AM

There are some settings on how to retry.
"Retry X times"
and
"Wait X seconds between tries"

You could increase the retry times to 30 or 60, and have 30-60 seconds between tries...
That should give you 15 minutes to an hour to connect to the internet before it gives up on you.

Puke · #5 December 10th, 2002, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Skulky:
I really wanna know where all these yahoo Users are (im from bay area too, ppl in socal might have some odd preferences that i don't know bout)

what, you haven't seen those f'ugly yahoo billBoards in the city? and i think you can still see one of those stooopid yahoo taxis (deployed prior to the dot com crash) every so often.

as for people who actually use the service.. well, i dont know about that so much.

steveh11 · #6 December 12th, 2002, 06:27 PM

OK. Would someone like to tell me what they use Trillian (or any of these other programs) for? Sorry, but it really, honestly, beats me!
Steve.

Suicide Junkie · #7 December 12th, 2002, 07:33 PM

Well, at the moment, I have #SE4 on IRC open, I have Geoschmo on ICQ, and Captain Kwok on MSN.

Imperator Fyron is on all 3, so I can leave him Messages while he's off-line through the ICQ function, or enter 3-way chat with the MSN function.

All in one small-footprint (7 megs for a full install!), unified chat program, with no spyware or ads.

EDIT: Dmeon Lrod Tyopo required a sacrifice.

[ December 12, 2002, 17:34: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]