Re: Pidgin doesn't connect to MSN anymore

2009-01-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Er Galvao Abbott spake unto us the following wisdom: > I was trying to get a backtrace in Pidgin to post in my bug report > , but now pidgin just doesn't > connect to MSN anymore. I receive just a "Connection error from > Notification server: Reading error

Pidgin doesn't connect to MSN anymore

2009-01-04 Thread Er Galvao Abbott
Greetings. I was trying to get a backtrace in Pidgin to post in my bug report , but now pidgin just doesn't connect to MSN anymore. I receive just a "Connection error from Notification server: Reading error" message and if I try to backtrace that gdb giv

Re: 2 Annoyances

2009-01-04 Thread John Moore 3rd
John Bailey wrote: > We maintain that the Skype plugin is a violation of our license. It is our > opinion that no one should use this plugin. We will not support it or any > consequences arising from its use. Thank You! I wasn't aware of this regarding the Skype Plug-In. JOHN 8-) Timestamp: S

Re: MSN Pidgin Crash

2009-01-04 Thread John Bailey
Niels P. Zussblatt wrote: > Hi, > > I’m not sure if this is the appropriate e-mail address to get some help > with an issue that I’m having. When I started pidgin up (version 2.5.3) > it kept crashing until I disabled MSN, then it worked. Also it has been > crashing when closed for a couple of d

Re: 2 Annoyances

2009-01-04 Thread John Bailey
John Moore 3rd wrote: > Pidgin boots. From My personal logs I noticed this behavior /after/ > installing the Skype Plug-In. I can ameliorate this Start-Up hassle if > I remember to Open Skype _before_ Opening Pidgin.Because I use both > Google Talk with My Gmail Account & with a Google Apps

Re: Possible to change charset in finch?

2009-01-04 Thread John Bailey
Dave Wood wrote: > I am still plagued by ?'s instead of some characters. Is it possible to > select different character sets like cp1252 etc? > > Cheers and a happy new year. No; Finch requires a properly configured terminal capable of supporting UTF-8 if it is built with libncursesw. You may be

Re: group text messages

2009-01-04 Thread John Bailey
Frank Doman wrote: > Can I create a group buddy listing and then send text messages to 4-5 > people by just listing that buddy listing in the buddy name top line on > the message box from my computer? I am attached to Yahoo IM for Pidgin > and sending text thru my computer to the cells of friends….

Re: Error using Pidgin

2009-01-04 Thread John Bailey
Shrikant Nigam wrote: > When I tried to run it, it gave following error: > $pidgin > pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libpurple.so.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Could someone help me out here ? You need to run 'ldconfig' as root. 'sudo ldconfig'

MSN Pidgin Crash

2009-01-04 Thread Niels P. Zussblatt
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate e-mail address to get some help with an issue that I'm having. When I started pidgin up (version 2.5.3) it kept crashing until I disabled MSN, then it worked. Also it has been crashing when closed for a couple of days, but I've been ignoring that until

Possible to change charset in finch?

2009-01-04 Thread Dave Wood
I am still plagued by ?'s instead of some characters. Is it possible to select different character sets like cp1252 etc? Cheers and a happy new year. -- A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im h

2 Annoyances

2009-01-04 Thread John Moore 3rd
I am enthralled with Pidgin but am annoyed by 2 things that seem to happen far too often. One minor & one major. Pidgin 2.5.3 O/S: XP SP3 Minor Annoyance: Initial Start-Up When starting Pidgin it takes too much time. The view from Task Manager indicates that Pidgin goes through several 'Resp

Re: group text messages

2009-01-04 Thread sanket agarwal
For the Yes/No part, it is indeed possible. But talking abt the problems that might me involved with such a functionality, it could be a means for possible spamming. One can just be encouraged to bug all the buddies at a time. !! As far as my info goes pidgin dosent have a mechanism inbuilt to tex

group text messages

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Doman
Can I create a group buddy listing and then send text messages to 4-5 people by just listing that buddy listing in the buddy name top line on the message box from my computer? I am attached to Yahoo IM for Pidgin and sending text thru my computer to the cells of friends..would like to only type som

Error using Pidgin

2009-01-04 Thread Shrikant Nigam
Hi, I installed pidgin on my SUSE 10.2 machine successfully, though I had to disable a few options. The command I used was ./configure --disable-startup-notification --disable-gtkspell --disable-gstreamer --disable-meanwhile --disable-avahi --disable-nm --disable-nss --disable-gnutls make make ins