Can I run multiple accounts in iChat at once?

[munckee]

Is there some way to have more than one account name running iChat at once? If not, are there other programs that allow this?

 

[devilot]

I'm not terribly familiar w/ iChat.

But I know that Adium will most certainly allow for you to be logged in w/ multiple accounts. 🙂

Hmm, well, Adium keeps all your BL synched, too.

But yes, it's got no audio/video (I use skype for that) and it has issues w/ file transfers. Argh.

But still, I love Adium. 😱 It's so purdiful and it really is convenient to use one app to log in to chat w/ different services (google talk, AIM, etc.).

 

[munckee]

Yeah. It appears that iChat will not 🙄

You'd think this would be a relatively simple feature. I'll have to give adium a try, though I'm not thrilled about it. I like the fact that I have iChat at work and at home and that it keeps my buddy lists synched (even if it can't remember the "get info" info from one to the other...🙄 ). And, while I haven't used it yet, I do find it kind of annoying that adium doesn't support audio/video. I want ONE programs for all this stuff 😀

 

[dcv]

How could you possibly run different A/V iChats simultaneously? 😕

 

[panoz7]

You could always launch multiple instances of iChat at the same time. I just tried it and it seems to work fine. Not the most elegant solution, but a solution nonetheless.

EDIT: I can't seem to get it to login to different accounts in each instance. Probably should have checked that before posting. There's probably a plist file or something that stores the login information that needs to be duplicated or something.

 

[munckee]

How could you possibly run different A/V iChats simultaneously? 😕

Not multiple a/v chats, just multiple usernames for text chats.

 

[siurpeeman]

somebody correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is a feature coming to ichat for leopard.

 

[dcv]

Not multiple a/v chats, just multiple usernames for text chats.

I might be wrong but I wouldn't have thought it possible because you can't run multiple a/v chats at once. Somebody prove me wrong now!

 

[munckee]

Does Adium support multiple of the same type of account running at once? (ie, can I have two different AIM usernames running at the same time?)

 

[devilot]

Does Adium support multiple of the same type of account running at once? (ie, can I have two different AIM usernames running at the same time?)

Yes. 🙂

 

[djbahdow01]

Does Adium support multiple of the same type of account running at once? (ie, can I have two different AIM usernames running at the same time?)

Yup, I have 3 AIM accounts running right now and you cn do custom away messages with each one as well. File transfers and a/v chats are not there or not great but over all it works pretty well.

 

[munckee]

Thanks. Guess its time to give it a try.