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[gaim-migrate @ 14446] A fix for SimGuy. He says that we should actually honor the system log preference under all cases. I suppose, maybe he's right. (01:05:24) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): I have the system log off (01:05:33) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): and yet somehow my own status changes are winding up in it (01:05:56) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): seems to just be idle changes (01:06:16) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): ---- +++ kevin_m_stange became unidle @ 2005-11-16 09:04:06 ---- (01:06:33) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): it is only logging my own idleness changes :) (01:07:10) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): I was just messing around and opening the dialogs from the tools menu and rather than being warned I have no system log, it showed me my system log, which shouldn't have happened :) (01:11:35) Kevin Stange (SimGuy): rlaager: it's clearly because of line ~ 1353 in status.c not checking the preference committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

This file describes how to compile and run gaim with dbus support.
Hopefully, most of the steps from point 3 will soon be automated.


1. Make sure you have the latest version (0.34) of the dbus library
   installed, including glib bindings.  

   http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus


2. Compile gaim

   ./configure --enable-dbus
   make
   make install


3. Configure your dbus instalation for gaim

   A. Find your dbus session configuration file, usually

      /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

   B. In that file, find the <servicedir> section.  This section
      contains the directory that stores files describing services,
      usually

      /usr/share/dbus-1/services

   C. Copy src/dbus-gaim.service to that directory

   D. Edit the dbus-gaim.service file you've just copied, and replace
      the path in the "Exec=" line with the path to your gaim
      executable.


4. Start Session DBUS if you haven't done it already

   eval `dbus-launch --session`
   export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

   These commands will set the two above shell variables.  These
   variables must be set before running any dbus-aware programs.

Start gaim as usual.  To communicate with it, use "gaim-send".  When
you execute gaim-send, the dbus system will automatically start a gaim
process if one is not running already.