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msn.tgz from SF Patch #1621854 from Ka-Hing Cheung "This tarball brings soc-2006-msnp13 up to head. In addition to that it also fixes a crash with sending offline messages. I wasn't able to generate a diff against that branch, svn seems to insist on diff'ing against HEAD after I run the merge command. After running `svn merge -r 16309:HEAD https://gaim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/trunk` on the soc-2006-msnp13 you can replace the msn directory with the attached tarball. The fix for offline messaging is on msn.c:901: if (!session->oim) session->oim = msn_oim_new(session)" committer: Richard Laager <[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.