IM Clients (I'm fed up with AIM!!!)

**david622** · 02-20-2005, 12:20 AM

Can anyone reccomend a new IM client to me (MUST BE AIM COMPATIBLE!!!)

I'm so pissed off at AIM right now. It randomly closes on me right during a conversation with my friends. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it didn't help.

I either want a new client or a fix for AIM so it stops closing on me (I'm currently using AIM v 5.9.3702)

I'd like to have the client able to support buddy icons, logging (possibly, but I can live without it), image/file sending, and custom fonts/bg colors for the text.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
DSF

[Edit:] I'd also appreciate links to download sites

**backlash** · 02-20-2005, 02:05 AM

what do you mean "it closes"? Do you mean that you lose your connection? or is aim crashing?

**Illuminati** · 02-20-2005, 02:24 AM

Trillian seems to be the one a lot of people go for.

Other than that, you can pretty much raid SourceForge - Miranda IM, GAIM...

**david622** · 02-20-2005, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by backlash

what do you mean "it closes"? Do you mean that you lose your connection? or is aim crashing?

sry, let me clarify. It crashes and pops up a dialogue box with a close button that I have to click.

i'm a go try trillian

**numba1xclusive** · 02-20-2005, 04:19 AM

what does this dialogue box say?

**david622** · 02-20-2005, 04:22 AM

don't remember offhand.

so far trillian is working nicely though. But a quick question.... (i'm using pro, if it matters) Is there a way to set it so it doesnt' automatically show the history of previous conversations when I start talking to somebody?

For example, I start talking to my friend, but it's showing (in faded letters) above the start of the convo, the conversation when had at a previous time.

**backlash** · 02-20-2005, 02:22 PM

yes - under activity history in preferences > miscellaneous options > untick show last 20 lines of the previous conversation OR just choose not to log any conversations and that will stop it as well.

**david622** · 02-20-2005, 04:03 PM

k thanks. I did the former because I really want logging. It's mad useful.

One more thing.... Is there a way to keep the buddy list from minimizing to the system tray when you click away from it? Instead, can I have it minimize to the taskbar and then minimize to the tray when I click the X?

**Wolfmight** · 02-20-2005, 07:01 PM

trillian works great.. saves a lot more memory than running all those IM clients at once. Four different IM client users contact me all the time, helps me out a lot.