Appearance of usernames in chat vs IM
Hi all, using pidgin 2.5.5 on win32, i have noticed a difference in the way usernames are displayed in instant messages vs. the way they are displayed in chatrooms: while they are bold in ims, their font is normal in chats. IMHO, this makes the chats less readable. (Currently selected GTK theme is MS-Windows). I suppose there is a way to change how usernames are displayed using gtkrc, but i haven't got a faint idea of what item i need to configure to accomplish this. Could any of you enlighten me? :) Thanks and best regards, Julian ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Changing your screen name
My screen name (shown under the "Nickname" list in chat rooms) was entered using all capital letters. I'd like to change that to lower case letters, since everyone in my assigned chat room is using lower case letters. When I open the Account window choose the Beehive account and click on either Edit Account or Set User Info pages, my screen name is grayed out. How can I modify my screen name?Marilyn J Montgomery | SeniorTechnical Support Engineer| cell 770.354.3229Oracle Universitymarilyn.montgom...@oracle.com ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Resizing window of Pidgin
Hello Is it possible in Pidgin setup resizing of main window according to number of contacts ? Regards Emil Sekula -- Forwarded message -- From: Emil Sekula emil.sek...@gmail.com Date: 2009/3/17 Subject: Problem with status in Pidgin To: support@pidgin.im Hello Today I have recognized Pidgin has some problems with status. After 2 minutes (I setup) it should change to idle but it doesn't work even I have the same configuration. Any idea why it happens ? Regards Emil Sekula ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Changing your screen name
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Marilyn Montgomery marilyn.montgom...@oracle.com wrote: My screen name (shown under the Nickname list in chat rooms) was entered using all capital letters. I'd like to change that to lower case letters, since everyone in my assigned chat room is using lower case letters. When I open the Account window choose the Beehive account and click on either Edit Account or Set User Info pages, my screen name is grayed out. How can I modify my screen name? You must be offline in order to edit the screen name in the Edit Account window. -Mark ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Pidgin - MSN - Proxy
Hi, tiago.francisco.ab...@bportugal.pt schrieb: At my work I installed Pidgin in Windows v.2.5.5. My company use a proxy. I successfully configured gmail following same information on the web. But I can't make MSN work. However I can make Windows Live Messenger v8.1 work. Can someone help me? That depends on the actual problem, maybe only your network admin can help you. In case you're company uses a (manually configured) proxy for HTTP(S) traffic over ports 80 and 443 (and blocks directly connecting without using the proxy within the firewall), but does not require a proxy for the rest of outgoing connections, then the problem is the following: MSN uses two connections, one over port 80 and one over 1863 iirc. So if you configure a proxy server within Pidgin, access over 1863 fails, due to the Proxy not being accepting connections for that port and if you don't, connections to port 80 are blocked by the firewall. At my company this issue has been solved as the proxy is now a transparent proxy, no need to configure it manually anymore. So I do not know of a solution, apart changing the network infrastructure. Greetings -Sascha- PS: I remember there was a patch floating around somewhere, but I never bothered to try it and compile Pidgin myself. ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: How to log in to google talk with university emails?
Jarn wrote: I'm trying to log in to google talk via Pidgin with my university-provided gmail address (x...@u.northwestern.edu). I can log in with google's own Google Talk merely by typing in x...@u.northwestern.edu for the name, but when I do that in pidgin it doesn't connect and says error connecting to host u.northwestern@gmail.com. Does anyone know how I would go about connecting with my university email address? Apparently Your University Address is being processed through Google Apps or some corporate version. Have You tried setting up using the XMPP Protocol instead of the Google-Talk Protocol set-up screen. It won't force gmail into the Domain and You just need to specify the Server as Talk.google.com and also be prepared to 'Accept' the Certificate whenever 1st logging in. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, 16:22 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: How to log in to google talk with university emails?
eurus...@gmail.com wrote: That worked, thanks! I put domain as u.northwestern.edu and server as talk.google.com and it appears to have worked... John Moore 3rd wrote: You're very Welcome. Even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while. :-D JOHN ;) Timestamp: Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, 16:40 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
using dbus with finch
I am trying to use dbus-send with finch. I was able to get the example in http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto working fine with pidgin, however trying to run any dbus remote command without a display does not seem to work. I tried setting DISPLAY=0:0, no help. I realize that this is more of a dbus question than finch, however I was wondering if anyone had come across this issue. According to everything that I have read about dbus, it is not dependent on x11. # dbus-launch finch # dbus-monitor --session Failed to open connection to session message bus: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Compile plugin for multiple systems and create an autoinstaller for it. Help please!
Hi. I have made my language_change plugin. My teacher would like that I
compiled it for multiple architectures. He would want that if he pushed the
file with the plugin then the Linux operating system will auto-intall it
like Windows operating systems.
I have tried with debcreator and dh_make. It don't seem the correct way.
On the other hand I think that would be a good idea to test the plugin
before I uploaded it to some repository. It has worked within any problem in
my Kubuntu Linux. Can you test it too? Thanks! I include the source code of
language_change.
Any help please!
/*
LANGUAGE_CHANGE
This plugin change the default language in Linux.
Developers:
The working of the plugin is simple. It get the posibles languages from /usr/lib/locale/. It allows to users select the languages they want.
Known errors:
A plugin works in execution time. Then, the plugin init in default language. Inmediately it get the select language and turn to it.
I would like if you teach me how to program it with signals. I would like it changed the default language without reboot pidin.
I thanks if you correct something what it was wrong. My english is poor. Because of that, you can correct me too.
*/
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include config.h
#endif
/* config.h may define PURPLE_PLUGINS; protect the definition here so that we
* don't get complaints about redefinition when it's not necessary. */
#ifndef PURPLE_PLUGINS
# define PURPLE_PLUGINS
#endif
#include glib.h
/* This will prevent compiler errors in some instances and is better explained in the
* how-to documents on the wiki */
#ifndef G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED
# if __GNUC__ = 4
# define G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED __attribute__((__sentinel__))
# else
# define G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED
# endif
#endif
#include notify.h
#include plugin.h
#include version.h
#include internal.h
#include plugin.h
#include pluginpref.h
#include prefs.h
#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include sys/file.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include dirent.h
#include unistd.h
#include string.h
#include fcntl.h
struct strings_list
{
char **string_pointers;
unsigned int number_of_strings;
} file_names;
void get_file_names(const char *directory, struct strings_list *file_names);
static PurplePluginPrefFrame *
get_plugin_pref_frame(PurplePlugin *plugin) {
struct strings_list file_names;
int i = 0;
PurplePluginPrefFrame *frame;
PurplePluginPref *ppref;
frame = purple_plugin_pref_frame_new();
ppref = purple_plugin_pref_new_with_name_and_label(
/plugins/core/language_change/language,
Select language);
purple_plugin_pref_set_type(ppref, PURPLE_PLUGIN_PREF_CHOICE);
get_file_names(/usr/lib/locale/, file_names);
while(i file_names.number_of_strings - 5)
{
purple_plugin_pref_add_choice(ppref, file_names.string_pointers[i], file_names.string_pointers[i]);
i++;
}
purple_plugin_pref_frame_add(frame, ppref);
free(file_names.string_pointers);
return frame;
}
void get_file_names(const char *directory, struct strings_list *file_names)
{
struct dirent *d;
struct stat buf;
file_names-string_pointers = NULL;
file_names-number_of_strings = 0;
DIR *dir;
char file_path[32];
if ((dir=opendir(directory)) == NULL)
{
/* error */
}
while ((d=readdir(dir)) != NULL)
{
/* The above line avoid infinite loop */
if (strcmp(d-d_name,.)!=0 strcmp(d-d_name, ..)!=0 strlen(d-d_name) 11)
{
file_names-string_pointers = (char **) realloc( file_names-string_pointers, ++file_names-number_of_strings*sizeof(char *) );
file_names-string_pointers[file_names-number_of_strings-1] = (char *) malloc( 11*sizeof(char) );
strncpy( file_names-string_pointers[file_names-number_of_strings-1], d- d_name, 11 );
sprintf(file_path,%s/%s,directory,d-d_name);
if (stat(file_path, buf) == -1)
{
/* error */
}
}
}
closedir(dir);
}
static gboolean
plugin_load (PurplePlugin * plugin)
{
const char *lang = purple_prefs_get_string(/plugins/core/language_change/language);
char *lang_set = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, lang);
if (lang_set == NULL) /* Error message: */
{
char error_message[64];
sprintf(error_message,An error has ocurred while setting language to: %s, lang);
purple_notify_message (plugin, PURPLE_NOTIFY_MSG_INFO, Plugin error,
error_message, NULL, NULL,
NULL);
}
return TRUE;
}
static PurplePluginUiInfo prefs_info = {
get_plugin_pref_frame,
0, /* page_num (Reserved) */
NULL, /* frame (Reserved) */
/* Padding */
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL
};
static PurplePluginInfo info = {
PURPLE_PLUGIN_MAGIC,
PURPLE_MAJOR_VERSION,
PURPLE_MINOR_VERSION,
PURPLE_PLUGIN_STANDARD,
NULL,
0,
NULL,
PURPLE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT,
core-language_change,
Language change,
0.1,
Language change plugin,
It changes the default language of pidgin,
Carlos-Helder García Escobar,
NULL, /* web page */
plugin_load,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
prefs_info,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL
};
static void
Re: pidgin bug
I'm passing this email on to our support mailing list in hopes that someone there will have better answers than I do. In the future, please send e-mails to support@pidgin.im instead of directly to developers; the support list responds much more quickly than I do. Braden wrote: hey, i found a minor bug in pidgin: if you have a contact set to show when offline they keep disappearing from your buddy list when you restart the computer i think its when you restart your computer, not %100 sure. if they have disappeared you can check show all ofline friends then uncheck show all offline friends and then all of your show while offline contacts will appear on your buddy list a bigger bug: i blocked a contact but i could still recieve message from them we were both signed in to MSN accounts i am using pidgin 2.5.5 he is using MSN live one more thing: is their any reason that MSN takes so long to connect when XMPP and Yahoo are nearly instant? is this a pidgin problem or a problem with the MSN network? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
