highlighted messages always render at bottom of the screen.

[Ken Phillis Jr]

Binary package hint: xchat

No matter how i change the system alerts using xchat i always wind up having the highlighted messages render at the bottom of the screen in green, i'd like to disable this however all of the options except for blinking the tray icon and enabling the system tray icon have been disabled.

so it's known, the command "dpkg -l | grep xchat" reveals the following.
ii xchat 2.8.4-0ubuntu7 IRC client for X similar to AmIRC
ii xchat-common 2.8.4-0ubuntu7 Common files for X-Chat
ii xchat-xsys 2.2.0-1 x-chat plugin that can display your current

[Ken Phillis Jr (kphillisjr)]

I noticed i didn't include steps to reproduce this bug...

1) have the following plugins loaded... X-Sys_2 ( version 2.2.0. ), Python ( Version 0.7), Perl ( Version 2.8.4 ), and Tcl ( Version 1.62 ).
2) join a channel.
3) someone says your irc nick name or messages you... this will trigger the event.
4) open up the preferences box, and go to Chatting -> Alerts. here, uncheck everything under alerts, and click apply.
5) have someone say your name again, should appear again, even though this is not desired.
6) restart Xchat, and this bug should still be appearing whenever someone says your name.

and on a quick note, i think this might also affect alerts for the private message too.

[Ken Phillis Jr (kphillisjr)]

it appears that a change between 7.10 and 8.04 caused this... the way to remove this behaviour was to do the following... open up the OSD Notifications dialog, which is located under... System -> Preferences -> OSD Notifications ... then when this dialog opens up click the Notifications tab. then to finish up, uncheck the option of "Notify on IRC messages directed to me"

the problem is thus directly linked to the package, gnome-osd

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This works for me with xchat2.8.6 and gnome-osd version 0.12.2. What version of gnome-osd do you have installed?

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!