keep sounds active when client isn't

I don't know all the correct terminology for this, but what I would like to see changed is for sounds (the typing animation, IM beeps, etc.) to still happen even when the client isn't the active window. I can't tell you how many times I've been checking email or working on a texture or whatever and missed people talking to me because I can't hear them. (And my monitor isn't big enough to tile the client & whatever other app I'm working in, and still be able to do anything in the other app, so please don't tell me to do that =)

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Did you try to tile the Sl client and another app ?

* Shebang smacks X upside the head with a rubber spatula



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I agree this would be a handy feature....