Thunderbird and instant-messaging

r_jensen11 · 06-23-2004, 12:57 PM

Has anyone gotten the two to work together? When I click on Instant Message through Thunderbird, it says "AIM is not a registered protocol"

r_jensen11 · 06-30-2004, 01:34 PM

Anybody?

r_jensen11 · 08-12-2004, 02:10 PM

When I run Thunderbird in Windows, it works with AIM flawlessly, is there a way to get it to do something similar with either the official AIM client or gAIM?

linuxwhore · 09-19-2004, 05:25 PM

Hopefully this is useful to someone.

To make Mozilla or Firefox pass AIM URIs to Gaim, do this:

As root, create the file /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri with the following contents...

Code:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gaim-remote uri $1

Then make the file executable by running...

Code:

chmod 755 /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri

Close Mozilla/Firefox.

Open your prefs.js file (~/.firefox/default/XXXXXXXX.slt/prefs.js) and enter the follwing at the end of the file...

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.aim", "/usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri");

Save prefs.js and then open Mozilla/Firefox.

Try out an AIM URI (aim:goim?screenname=jholmstadt).

Potentially, this could method be simplified by passing the "uri" argument to gaim-remote directly in prefs.js. However I don't know how to do this, or if it is even possible.