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Is this a glitch or bug or am I doing it wrong?

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Help!
In the Messages app, when a chat is received, the Messages window does not pop up! (Like it did with the old ichat.) When a chat is received, it makes the noise, the icon bounces in the dock, and a red bubble is on the icon with the number of new chats.... but the messages window does not come forward. This is the most frustrating thing ever! I've been missing so many chats because I'm not staring at my dock. How do I make the messages window pop up when a chat is received?? Please help!!
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Hi,
I am not sure you can.
By Default iChat could "Hide" any window such as a Buddy list.
A new Invite put up a Invite window first that you had to Accept (Or set Auto Accept).
This triggered the appearance of the Chat window.
This does not happen in Messages.
There is not Invite window now to any Form of Text chat invite.
As a consequence there is no Trigger for the Chat window.
Add to that the Messages main Window is an interface window as well as the Chat window.
This puts it in the same category as Buddy List which has to be called back (unhidden) into view with either Keystrokes or the Window Menu.
A click (or possibly two to first bring Messages to the Front) on the DOCK icon also tends to reveal the Messages window.
You can set the Messages > Preferences > Alerts for New Messages and Text Chat invitation to Bounce the DOCK and Play sounds to help.
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This has start happening this week. I am using OS 10.7.5 on a Mac Pro desktop. When I click on the Finder icon in the tray nothing happens. I might have one or more finder windows open but none of them come forward when I click on the icon. I have to use Command+Tab to rotate through any open programs to get the Finder window. And it is only the Finder that this happens with.
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Hi ,
Looks like this is not a Forms side problem or even a Reports Servlet problem
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From the exception
at oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl.CGetEnv(Native Method)
at oracle.reports.engine.EngineImpl.getEnvs(EngineImpl.java:453)
it looks like engine crashing. Did you see the server GUI up and running ? Server might not have started
Give
rwserver server=<server_name> in command line.
The server GUI should come up and show "ready "
You have multiple Oracle Homes on the same machine. So this could be a PATH problem.
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Copy the IDS specific PATH to clipboard
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rwserver server=<server_name>
and try
(If this works you could write a batch file later)
2) For trouble shooting purposes use a different server name to start the standalone server.
3) Also look in your registry
HKLM\Software\Oracle\Home<x>\
Here please see whether you have any "very long" environment variable (say more than 256 chars or 512 chars).
This is just a guess.
4) To confirm this is not a Reports servlet problem
give
rwclient report=<report_name> + ..... <server=server_name>
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Ratheesh
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Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
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