Comments | rigel: Ask GChat Guru EllJay

rigel

Ask GChat Guru EllJay

Jul 18, 2011 18:47

As of a handful of days ago -- oddly enough, since about when my Google+ account was suspended, but I don't think the two events are related -- I've been experiencing an odd GChat bug ( Read more... )

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curiositykt July 19 2011, 01:43:11 UTC

mine was being weird like this awhile back and it was because gmail's built in chat was overriding the client side. It might be stuck in google +'s internal gchat system. Try changing it in gmail?

rigel July 19 2011, 04:22:45 UTC

That's where I use it. (Where else would I use it?)

curiositykt July 19 2011, 09:16:28 UTC

you can download google talk and then it's a program on your desk top.

natbudin July 19 2011, 11:16:39 UTC

Or Adium, or iChat (the one that comes with Mac OS X).

Google Talk can be weird, especially if you log in on multiple computers, and I've seen it get into these kind of states before. Mine flipped my AIM account to "Available" and would never set it Away, no matter how hard I tried. The only way I was able to get it to stop was by creating a new AIM account called "StopItGoogleTalk" and logging into that one.