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That wouldn't work either.....the whole point of the locking/boss protection mode is to get rid of messenger quickly...if you had to 'okay' a pop-up box every time then it would take away that aspect of it.  The box was only added for people accidentally pressing the shortcut, but it doesn't seem to be working as it keeps happening

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Originally posted by djdannyp
The box was only added for people accidentally pressing the shortcut, but it doesn't seem to be working as it keeps happening

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In that point I have to agree... I've seen lots of posts with "Help!! I've locked my WLM... What can I do now?"

Well, the popup that is displayed the first time for every user is already giving a lot of informaiton. But you're right, an explanation picture may help too.

And what about disabling it by default?

(and thus only showing the dialog the very first time the user has pressed the shortcut after enabling the feature. I know this might sound 'inconvenient' for some, but seeing the massive amount of "help I can't find wlm" it might be a good thing. The other people will read the text in the preferences that the first time a dialog will be shown and/or will test the feature before actually using it resulting in the same thing: the dialog will be shown and they are all set to start using the feature.)

Well, from what I gathered, most of those people locked Mesenger notre with Ctrl+Space but from the Plus! menu. So, disabling the shortcut by default wouldn't help much.

ah, very true....


but it might help for those who accidently press ctrl-space

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Originally posted by Patchou
Well, from what I gathered, most of those people locked Mesenger notre with Ctrl+Space but from the Plus! menu. So, disabling the shortcut by default wouldn't help much.

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This reminded me a very old reply of me to a thread.

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Originally posted by ahmetgns in lock suggestion?

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by mezzanine
Or simply make the option disabled by default

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Agreed, very simple fix and does the job well.

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Don't forget the Plus! menu item "Lock Messenger" which I believe the 75% of newbies lock their Messenger via that item for the first time (it's only my guess, doesn't need to reflect reailites )

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Now I know this guess is the reality.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Well, the popup that is displayed the first time for every user is already giving a lot of informaiton. But you're right, an explanation picture may help too.

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Although I don't have more to say about this matter, I have to remind again that that pop-up appears only when the shortcut is used so explanation with picture should be displayed for the case of locking with Plus! menu as well.

And it still sometimes activates itself when it shouldn't (option is disabled and/or with a different shortcut than the default one, yet pressing ctrl+space sometimes locks Messenger anyway).