1) This is really weird. I finally realized after much reading (and pain) that I need to get SSL installed to make MSN happy in Gaim. Done. I can now get in MSN (and have always been able to get in AIM).

HOWEVER, I've noticed something really weird. If I have both Yahoo and MSN set to log in automatically (with passwords and everything)., I get in AIM about a second or two before MSN. As soon as MSN connects, it totally kills Gaim. In other words, I can't run both. Individually, they work fine, but not together. Very baffled. Thoughts?

2) Okay, I've essentially given up on getting Yahoo to work in Gaim 0.75. I've seen nothing anywhere when googling which helps, except the developers saying "wait for 0.76". I'm only slightly upset about this.

i don't know what to say about the aim and msn prob but yahoo has a version of its messenger for unix/linux. i would suggest getting the tarball and installing that. i tried the .deb version before and found problems, but they could have been fixed with the latest release. so far i am pretty happy with the tarball version.

i'm aware of that, but i really want to stick with one app for all the messaging. kind of annoying to have to have multiple windows open. in fact, that's one reason i like gaim...i like how it gives you panels between the various people, rather than multiple windows.


anybody have any ideas on what i said in #1 above?

1)Well, I don't have problem #1 above when I'm logged in as root! (I use the same
MSN and AIM log ins that I was using under my user account.) Any ideas why this
would be? I"m using the same box. Also, MSN never worked on either before
I installed the SSL stuff today, so the fact that it now works for both makse me
believe I'm using the same build. Thoughs, comments, questions?

I obviously want it to work properly under my user account, because having to switch
over to my root console just to use gaim seems very excessive and slightly dangerous
if any unknown security holes currently exist in gaim.

2)#2 above never works anywhere, anytime for me in Gaim. (Yahoo, that is.)