MSN: Nudge / Yahoo: Buzz

Adium calls it simply "notification", and enables you to send and receive it.

The same information on this page is also presented in an Adium screencast on our website, which shows the feature in action.

Presenting notifications you receive

When somebody nudges/buzzes you, the official clients will shake the window and play a sound.

We don't offer the window-shaking action, but we do provide our entire usual suite of event actions. You see, receiving a notification is in Adium as one of the events in the Preferences. You determine what Adium will do when one comes in.

In the Events pane of Adium's Preferences simply select the "Notification received" event in the list, click the + button, and choose the action you want Adium to perform. You can add as many actions as you want.

Sending notifications

There are three ways to send a notification to one of your contacts:

• The keyboard: Type "/nudge" or "/buzz" into the inputline and press Return or Enter.
• The menu: Choose "Request Attention" from the Contact menu.
• The toolbar: The "Request Attention" button is not on the chat window toolbar by default, so you need to add it.
  • First, right-click on the chat window toolbar and choose "Customize Toolbar…".
  • Drag the "Request Attention" button to the toolbar. Finally, click OK. From then on, when you want to send a notification, click "Request Attention" (or the shaking-emoticon icon if you're using Icon Only mode).