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I'm committing this to get it out of my tree...
As mentioned on gaim-devel, this normalizes some stuff. Mark wants to standardize on "username" instead. For recognition purposes, I'd prefer that, but using "screen name" is potentially useful in that users might not enter their OS username. In any case, it's not a huge deal to me either way. I believe the consensus before was for "screen name", and barring a consensus to change, "screen name" is the status quo anyway, so I'm making things consistent.
committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author | Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> |
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date | Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:00:25 +0000 |
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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.