Showing posts with label pidgin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pidgin. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Monday, June 28, 2010
first steps in IRC with pidgin
- "Add Account" for each IRC server/user pair (e.g. irc.freenode.net), that you want to use, within pidgin with IRC as protocol
- "Join a Chat" (below Buddies), select the right Account (i.e. one of your IRC protocol/server accounts), enter the Channel (including the '#'), leave the Password blank! here we are!
I did all this with a (fink) pidgin on my MacBook running Snow Leopard (OS X), but I don't doubt, it will also run on my openSUSE Samsung notebook.
Friday, November 6, 2009
strangers contacting me on Live Messenger
On all of my MSN / Live Messenger accounts I disallowed, that people not on my contact list, can send me messages. Still I keep getting IMs from strangers. How come???
No, I didn't google for this phenomenon. Actually I'm not sure, how to express this with 3 to 5 words to be put in a Google search, so that I don't receive mostly irrelevant hits.
Actually I mostly don't use the Live Messenger client itself but pidgin. But of course: the client shouldn't make a difference there. (Actually it does, as I found out later during my research. See below!!)
Anybody any idea?
Update: now that I expressed this thing here, I was able to do a Google search (with the title of this story here), and found this. Didn't help me either, but maybe others will find it helpful.
Another update: looks like actually the client IM software needs to do the blocking, and I found the right settings in pidgin to do that. There is a privacy menu entry (Tools > Privacy), and you have to select "allow only the users on my buddy list" on every single account, if that's what you want -- and I certainly do.
No, I didn't google for this phenomenon. Actually I'm not sure, how to express this with 3 to 5 words to be put in a Google search, so that I don't receive mostly irrelevant hits.
Actually I mostly don't use the Live Messenger client itself but pidgin. But of course: the client shouldn't make a difference there. (Actually it does, as I found out later during my research. See below!!)
Anybody any idea?
Update: now that I expressed this thing here, I was able to do a Google search (with the title of this story here), and found this. Didn't help me either, but maybe others will find it helpful.
Another update: looks like actually the client IM software needs to do the blocking, and I found the right settings in pidgin to do that. There is a privacy menu entry (Tools > Privacy), and you have to select "allow only the users on my buddy list" on every single account, if that's what you want -- and I certainly do.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
the pidgin Facebook plugin
The pidgin Facebook plugin does not work properly so far. A single Facebook user actually talks to me with yet another id, every single time he sends me a message. This does not look tested well enough.
I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard.
Update / 2010-12-28:
For quite a while Facebook chat has now been reachable through Jabber / XMPP.
I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard.
Update / 2010-12-28:
For quite a while Facebook chat has now been reachable through Jabber / XMPP.
Friday, September 18, 2009
upgrading pidgin from SF.net instead of from openSuSE repositories
... is a real pain. 2.6.2 instead of 2.5.1 look worth it, esp. because the latter keeps on crashing shortly after start-up, but I removed it now altogether and will only use it on WinXP for the time being.
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