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[gaim-migrate @ 16406] More of sf patch #1490646, from Jonty Wareing & Jono Cole "The screen name + hostname of the sending user is sent in the outgoing jabber message, fixing a sporadic problem with iChat. The port in use has been fixed to the one described in the Bonjour specification and can no longer be changed in the prpl preferences - modifiying this just stops the client from being able to start a chat. The option for a buddy icon has been removed for now as no code actually uses it yet - we plan to change this in the future. This update also introduces automatic local port retry for up to ten attempts if the port is in use (e.g. if multiple instances of gaim are running)." 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.