How to prevent avatar's head down (Away) animation?

[Robin23 Dagostino]

A friend of mine came with his laptop and SL (he is using Exodus viewer) and I noticed that if I minimized my viewer window my avatar would show on his viewer with the head down (Away animation) almost immediately.

Isn't that supposed to happen if (a) user explicitely sets Status | Away and/or (b) User is away from keyboard for a predetermined amount of time such as 5 minutes?

Well, it happens immediately. Is there a way to disable that? I want to se it manually (Status) or if I am away for more than 5-10 minutes). I don't want people to think I am away only because I *briefly* put my attention on some RL event.

[Baloo Uriza]

There should be an option that you can disable in the preferences about setting away when minimized in most viewers.

[Robin23 Dagostino]

There is an option after within Preferences. The default and minimum is 5 minutes but in reality you just need to minimize and the head goes down even if you haven't reached the 5 minutes.

In any case I set it to 10 minutes, that works better.

[Baloo Uriza]

There should actually be one specifically for when the viewer is minimized.

[Coby Foden]

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Robin23 Dagostino wrote:

There is an option after within Preferences. The default and minimum is 5 minutes but in reality you just need to minimize and the head goes down even if you haven't reached the 5 minutes.

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Ok, I tested how the Away timeout works:

• Away timeout: Never

Now, when you minimize the viewer the avatar does not go into "Away" mode (head down).

 

• Away timeout: 2, 5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes

When you minimize the viewer the avatar goes immediately into "Away" mode.

If the viewer is unminimized, then the avatar goes into "Away" mode after the time what has been set.