Does Trillian Opens off-screen? Here is now to move it back
I use Trillian at home w/ a multiple monitor system. But, when I'm on the road I only travel with a laptop and rarely have a second monitor hooked up to the machine.
For most programs this poses no problem. But, the trillian window will often not show up when I'm on the road. I can still sign in and get IMed by people, but cannot view my contact list or initiate IMs with people. Usually when this happens with other software, I just right click on the window in the task bar, click 'move' and move it back onto the screen w/ the keyboard.
Unfortunately the Trillian buddy list does not display on the task bar.
First I tried Shove It. This is a cool program that I used a long time ago when I used to keep the windows status bar at the top of the screen. It will move "off-screen" windows back onto the screen. It had no affect, it must not know the Trillian window exists because it isn't on the task bar.
Web searching came up with a lot of people who had these problems (with different software), but no concrete solutions to solve them. I finally ended up in the Cerulean Studio's Forms. ( If you didn't know, they make Trillian). AFter some searching, I found a post where someone mentions a buddy.ini file. So, I go find that file (C:\Program Files\Trillian\users\default\buddy.ini) and the first few lines are something like this:
[Window Status]
Visible=false
LocationX=1400
LocationY=800
Width=213
Height=615
I shut down trillian, changed locationx and locationy both to 0, and relaunched. Bingo it showed up.
I imagine there must be an easier way, though.
I figured out how to address that





Simply go into Trillian Preference -> Contact List, and there is a checkmark under "Access and Position" that says "Show Contact List as a task in Windows taskbar when not docked." That might might allow Shove It to find the window.
By the way, I found this topic 'cause I was having the same problem and your advice worked great. Thanks!
Your the Man!
-defab
so i uninstalld trillian, dut trilian kept some files including buddy.ini, so I removed all unnesesery files, including buddy, the skin folder. Then reinstalld ten wolla trillian popups as normal...
1) Go into Trillian Preference -> Contact List, and there is a checkmark under "Access and Position" that says "Show Contact List as a task in Windows taskbar when not docked."
2) Right click Trillian's tab in the taskbar (bottom of your screen-NOT by the clock)/click move.
3) Then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to reposition the contact list.
When you close it - new position should be auto saved and your good to go.
I was just missing the very top of the trillian window and could not move it at all, only resize it.
All better now.
Important note - you need to have trillian closed down before editing the file otherwise it will reset your changes.