I can't get gaim to stop showing chats and IMs in the same tabbed window. I want my IMs from different buddies to appear in different windows, but when I turn off the corresponding preferences option "Show IMs and chats in tabbed windows", it makes no difference. IMs still appear in the same window with tabs for the different buddies I'm chatting with. Here is the debug output of gaim when I toggle that preferences option: prefs: /gaim/gtk/conversations/tabs changed, scheduling save. prefs: writing prefs out to disk. prefs: /gaim/gtk/conversations/tabs changed, scheduling save. prefs: writing prefs out to disk. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn *off* the "Show IMs and chats in tabbed windows" option. 2. Get different buddies to send you IMs. Actual Results: Each buddy's conversation appears in a different tab of the same window. Expected Results: Each buddy's conversation should appear in a different window. I have gaim-0.75-r10. paul@ball paul $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jikes jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb video_cards_radeon x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
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