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[gaim-migrate @ 14415] quoth charkins: " This patch has a few small fixes for the visibility stuff in gtkblist.c. First, tracking of the ICONIFIED state of the blist was removed. This was intended to allow the blist to "remember" if it was minimized between restarts. Unfortunately, this is not possible because the ICONIFIED state gets set when the blist is on a different desktop with many window managers. Second, while talking about the ICONIFIED issue on #gtk@GIMPNet, muntyan_ asked about a bug where the blist would get shown on an account re-connect with 1.5.0. Luke mentioned something about this with cvs as well. This patch introduces a check in gaim_gtk_blist_show() to prevent the window from being shown if it already exists and is visible. Third, sadrul pointed me to a one-line fix for the missing blist on startup. I added a second line to make sure the blist restores its proper size as well. Finally, when the last visibility manager is removed, gaim will now minimize the blist if it was previously hidden, rather than showing it. This could prevent a race condition with out-of-process applets, preventing gaim from maintaining the visibility state properly between restarts. This was 'cvs diff'ed against the last available anon cvs from Friday. Hopefully it'll apply cleanly." it did. 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.