Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 17:41:54 schrieb Hans: As in the other thread again, it still works here. With version patched 4.2. At least I can see online state of buddies after login in and it does log in. Ciao, Did you real disconnect or just close the application? Try to

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
Hmmm, I see. I just started the application with auto login and that did still work. But when I logoff from within the application I cannot login again. There is lots of binary data in ~/.Skype. Yes, but you can relogin using my workaround. If you are logged in again, and did as I

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution that is *fully* and *completely* under *my* control and

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution that is *fully* and *completely* under *my* control and *will work as is* until *I* decide to change it. Maybe I just grown up with a

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +0400, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion?

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 19:19:07 schrieb Hans: I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution that is *fully* and *completely* under *my* control and *will work as is* until *I*

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: Hi. Hi Reco, On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly.

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 20:52:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: http://tox.im Free software, decentralized, should do most of the things you expect from IM. Not in Debian main archive yet, though. Wow, this looks good.

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 20:11:44 schrieb Brian: On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 20:52:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: http://tox.im Free software, decentralized, should do most of the things you expect from IM. Not in Debian

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 19:13:43 schrieb Hans: Hmmm, I see. I just started the application with auto login and that did still work. But when I logoff from within the application I cannot login again. There is lots of binary data in ~/.Skype. Yes, but you can relogin

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
That is no instruction I can give to my father. And you need a Skype 4.3 binary then as well? I actually don´t care that much. I don´t use Skype regularily. But my father does. And these kind of instructions are fundamentally incompatible with him :). Skype could be something to bring him

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 21:22:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Maybe I can talk a Windows user into installing a client and try chatting with her :) My skype display says it has 60M+ users on line. In 10 years time that may change and there may be another killer communications application.

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
So, I checked out the following; The only things you need in ~/home/user/.Skype are the subfolder named as the skype-username and the config.xml. To make it easy for your dad, you can create these files on your computer and send him both (login into skype with your dad's passwort and username