Gaim

Black Zer0 · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: Gaim

I'm aware everyone hates gaim and therfore does not use it (beats me as too why but wtvr...)
but I recently forced gaimebeta6 to emerge and it doesnt support the msn protocol like 1.5 does
I used gaimbeta6 on windows and it supported gaim
If anyone uses gaim and know what the problem is please help
keep in mind I'm not going to switch to uselessy graphic other IMS with other useless features, I just want simple stupid gaim(To me at least. I don't use stuff like video chat so I don't need anything better)

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Black Zer0 · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

Yes, thats because its emerge aim and not the beta6 one which for some reason doesn't have msn when you emerge it(by path)

Sachankara · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:47 am Post subject:

Black Zer0 · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:11 am Post subject:

Thanks, I would have never thought to simply do
USE="msn" emerge /usr/portage/blah/blah/blah

I keep forgetting how handy Gentoo is

(merging by path is dangerous apparently but it works so whatever)

Timmer · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject:

it may work, but isn't it easier just to emerge =net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta6?

Or better yet, go into /etc/portage/package.keywords, and add net-im/gaim ~[arch] and then go into /etc/make.conf, and add USE="msn". And then type emerge gaim.

Gentoo's configuration files are very handy when you know about them. And by adding msn to your list of USE variables in make.conf, you make sure that programs will always compile in msn support in the future without having to remember to add USE="msn" to the emerge line every time.

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

new error: now it keeps popping up and sayingf error authentication failure and yet I am logged in
this is irritating because when I'm in a fullscreen program......

slithy · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Kansas

Yeah I occasionally get the MSN Authentication error...I Just ignore it. MSN's messenger service isn't very good and screws up all the time, but what can you do when you want to talk with people that use that protocol?

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

exactly

I would ignore it but when I'm in Zsnes and it pops up and it shits up and closes and I lose my place its hard to ignore

slithy · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Kansas

Does it pop up when you status is set to "Away" also?

Black Zer0 · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

I dunno

slithy · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Kansas

I just had the error pop up when my status was sent to away.

I only get this error when a certain contact of mine signs on. That particular contact is using kopete. Is it a particular contact that is causing the error for you and if so, do you know his/her client?

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

since nobody mentioned it here i wonder if only i experience this behavior...
my gaim always sets it's status to away i am not writing messages to somebody if i enable the auto-idle feature.
i have this problem since beta5.
anybody else?

nihil39 · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

I use gaim beta6 and I have a weird problem: I can neither see the away messages of my buddies nor I can set mine. I can't even find the option that is supposed to show my away message.

I've built gaim with the following use flags