Disabling Bonjour Messaging Window Popup

Hi Eric,

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Terry Neels has. See his Bonjour thread for his problem and our best suggestions.

RETRAX has, too. See iChat ignore Bonjour Settings.

You're welcome, Eric.

Glad you got it working.

Eric Nix is lucky, still having this problem, the only way around it is to open iChat using the icon in the dock and not the one in the menu bar.

Hmmmm, Eric.

Did you try Terry's work-around by launching iChat AV from the Dock instead of from the menu bar?

Any other activity between the time it worked and when Bonjour "came back"?

If it
b IS
a bug, perhaps it is triggered by changing other preferences, repairing permissions, OS updates, .... who knows?

If you and Terry can think of possible triggers, perhaps we can track it down, or at least narrow the list of candidates.

I will also watch mine to see if it ever comes back.

EZ Jim

Hi Eric,

Do you have all three Buddy list windows on the desktop ?

IF you do not use them you can use the red button to make them go away. iChat will remember this next time you start up iChat.

I would check the iChat Preferences > Accounts > Use this account option, also remove any ticks next to Bonjour and the Automatically Log in when I open ichat check box.

I would delete com.apple.ichat.plist and com.apple.ichatAgent.plist to make sure this sticks.

Ralph

HI Eric,

I am mystified.

I can not replicate this.

Ralph

Eric / Ralph.

Likewise. With the settings made as I quote in my link to Terry Neels, I cannot replicate it either.

EZ Jim

Well, I CAN replicate!
In fact, that is exactly why I am here in Apple Discussions... looking for an answer.
I don 't get the Bonjour popup every time I start iChat. It seems to be limited to the first time each day (or after a shutdown.)
It looks as if it really doesn't want to take "NO!" as an answer.

Hi David,

Welcome to Apple Discussions.

It seems to be limited to the first time each day (or after a shutdown.

Sorry, David. You have a stubborn one, too.

Mine still does that, too, -- not EVERY TIME, but -- the next time I restart after deleting the iChat .plist, even after I have reset all the iChat preferences to the settings described above.

I believe it also does it when I force the chrons, but I am not CERTAIN of this. Do you keep your Mac awake 24 hours a day? If so, the chron functions may be resetting this "for" you.

To stop it, whenever I get the Bonjour interruption although the preferences settings are already as I like them, I "Cancel" the Bonjour window, open iChat AV as desired, and then I change the
b iChat > Preferences... > General
"When I return to my computer, and my status is Away:" setting.

If it is set to "Ask what to do", I change it to "Keep my status as Away". If "Keep my status as Away" is currently set, I change it to "Ask what to do". Making this change seems to save an updated iChat preferences file that stops Bonjour interruptions next time I launch, whether the next day or after restarting.

I can later return the "When I return to my computer, and my status is Away:" setting to my real preference if necessary, and Bonjour stays away until I toss iChat's .plist (which I seldom do), or, possibly, when I Force the Chrons.

Please let us know whether this helps you.

Cheers,
Jim

I have this problem as well, but only the first time iChat is launched (doesn't matter if from menu bar or dock). It only happens the first time I launch for the day (or after a restart). I can quit and re-launch and not be asked, but if it's the first time - I get asked if I want to enable/login to Bonjour.

Maybe this will be fixed in 10.4.2.

Hi David,

Does the tip I gave right above your post (msg # 2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1) not work to suspend the interruptions for you?

The same thing you reports happens to me, but my tip fixes the problem for me (unless and until I delete my iChat .plist file.)

EZ Jim