Re: Pidgin Crashing w/ Linux Mint Cinnamon

2015-01-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Dale, please reply to all recipients (see the last line of my signature). On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:25:06 -0500 Dale sause.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good Morning, I have been using Pidgin flawlessly for months, and for some reason.. it stopped working. completely. I have removed it and

Local network

2015-01-05 Thread Gabriel Damant-Sirois
Hi, We would like to set up a local chat at our office. Is it possible to use Pidgin this way (without having to use another service (e.g. Yahoo or MSN)? All the computers are connected through our local server. Thank you for your help. Gabriel [Description : Description :

Re: Local network

2015-01-05 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
You would need to set up a local XMPP server on a suitable machine in your network then allow Pidgin clients to connect to it. This statement is correct, but using Bonjour on the same network would eliminate the need for a server entirely and clients would still be able to use chat for

Re: Local network

2015-01-05 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Indeed, Bonjour is a solution, but I think it's probably not very configurable. It might be sufficient though. Yes, there is almost no configurable options at all. For example, if you require conversation logging, you can turn that on at the PC level but any user can just as easily turn it

RE: Local network

2015-01-05 Thread Gabriel Damant-Sirois
Thanks! It's working! Gabriel -Message d'origine- De : David Woolley [mailto:for...@david-woolley.me.uk] Envoyé : 5 janvier 2015 14:19 À : Gabriel Damant-Sirois; support@pidgin.im Objet : Re: Local network On 05/01/15 17:55, Gabriel Damant-Sirois wrote: We would like to set up a