How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application?

I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes.

Is there any way I can have a "Quit Confirmation" show up when I try to quit Adium, except when I am logging out or shutting down the OS?

Solution 1:

You can do the following to make it a little bit harder to quit Adium by accident. I think this should solve your problem.

Start by opening System Preferences > Keyboard.

1. Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the pillbox above.
2. Make sure you have Application Shortcuts selected in the left bar.
3. Click the + button to add a new shortcut.

4. Select Adium from the Application dropdown.
5. Type "Quit" in the menu title field.
6. Put your cursor in the Keyboard Shortcut field and type Command-Option-Q
7. Click Add

And you're done. You can close your System Preferences because the Quit command in Adium has been remapped to a less-likely-to-be-accidentally-typed shortcut.