Connecting, Disconnecting, Setting Status

Control of Individual Services

Each of your account can be individually managed using the blue icons at the top of your contact list:

Every service is represented by a different icon, as shown in the legend below:

Global Control

You may set all accounts (Online, Away, Offline, Invisible etc) by clicking your status at the top of your contact list:

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Share a status update (e.g. "Hard at work!") for all accounts by clicking "Share a messaage..." or any existing status message:

By default, Trillian is set to update your status message on All IM Networks. If you would also like to also update your social network status you can click the selection to the right of "Set Status for" and check/uncheck your selections:

Global Away Status

When setting yourself as Away, Trillian will automatically change your status message to show what time you went away. It pre-fills the status message box so that you can edit it yourself:

Simply start typing to replace it with a custom away message.

Advanced

Open Trillian Preferences to the Status page for more control of your status messages:

You may edit saved Status Messages by clicking the "Edit status messages..." button:

Saved Status Messages allow you to configure re-usable states with finer control.
Create groups to further organize your status messages.
Set each service's state (Online, Away, Invisible, etc).
Quickly change to a saved status message from the top of your contact list:

Trillian will also automatically save any status messages you've set, for your convenience.