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From: Larry Stoter on 4 Jul 2010 05:00
I have skype running well on my home iMac and and iPod Touch.

I would like to set up my home iMac so that when I want to connect to my
wife's skype account, it automatically activates skype.

Unless I have missed something obvious, I can't see an easy way of doing
this within skype. That is, to set up some sort of "listening" mode,
running in the background ....

I guess I could get skype to auto start when the iMac is turned on but
it would need to be left with my wife's account active.

This seems a fairly obvious requirement, so I guess it is available
somewhere. Any suggestions?

(The reason for all this is that my wife is as computer literate as a
gerbil ....)

Thanks,

Larry
From: Gavin on 4 Jul 2010 07:08
On 2010-07-04 10:00:43 +0100, larry(a)666.com (Larry Stoter) said:

> I have skype running well on my home iMac and and iPod Touch.
>
> I would like to set up my home iMac so that when I want to connect to my
> wife's skype account, it automatically activates skype.
>
> Unless I have missed something obvious, I can't see an easy way of doing
> this within skype. That is, to set up some sort of "listening" mode,
> running in the background ....
>
> I guess I could get skype to auto start when the iMac is turned on but
> it would need to be left with my wife's account active.
>
> This seems a fairly obvious requirement, so I guess it is available
> somewhere. Any suggestions?
>
> (The reason for all this is that my wife is as computer literate as a
> gerbil ....

I have Skype on both Windows and OSX and I dont think there is a way to
do what you want. The Skype service has to be running to accept the
calls, and this means having the program running.

I guess all you can do is get it to start at logon in a minimised state?


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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 4 Jul 2010 08:43
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:00:43 +0100, larry(a)666.com (Larry Stoter) wrote:

>I have skype running well on my home iMac and and iPod Touch.
>
>I would like to set up my home iMac so that when I want to connect to my
>wife's skype account, it automatically activates skype.
>
>Unless I have missed something obvious, I can't see an easy way of doing
>this within skype. That is, to set up some sort of "listening" mode,
>running in the background ....
>
>I guess I could get skype to auto start when the iMac is turned on but
>it would need to be left with my wife's account active.

That's your only mechanism for the desktop skype.

You could get her a phone which talks Skype and runs it in the
background. Not just iPhones etc, you can get IP-based desk phones
that work on Skype directly, though I've never used any.

Cheers - Jaimie
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