Yahoo chat using Gaim?

sheldon · 09-15-2003, 08:07 AM

Hi,

I have installed the latest version of Gaim in my RedHat-8.0. I just want to whether I can go to different yahoo chat rooms that is possible in yahoo messenger in windows. Basically I want to joing in a chat room and want to chat with many peeple.

When I tried chatting using gaim I got a message saying that 'chat protocol is not supported' or something similar to that.

Nowadays I boot my windows only to get into my yahoo chat room!.

Any help is appreciated..

sheldon.

/bin/bash · 09-15-2003, 08:21 AM

ymessenger is available for Linux. Go to freshmeat.net and search.

sheldon · 09-15-2003, 08:31 AM

Thnaks.

Could you send me the name of the software that supports this?

Just now I have searched freshmeat.net and what I can find is a text based yahoo messenger (Ari's yahoo client) . Looks like this doesn't support yahoo room chat. Let me know if I am wrong here. I have downloaded the ymessenger from yahoo website also. That also doesn't support group chat. Actually I was not able to see the fonts with the ymessenegr that I downloaded from yahoo web site!.

sheldon · 09-15-2003, 08:46 AM

OK.. Now I was able to find many yahoo messenegrs for linux. But couldn't figure out which one supports yahoo room chatting. Do you have any idea which one I should download?

BTW gaim doesn't support yahoo room chatting?

acid_kewpie · 09-15-2003, 08:54 AM

i once used a program called gyach. it was awful, but it worked.... maybe it's good by now.

sheldon · 09-16-2003, 01:54 AM

Sorry, so far I couldn't find anything by which I can replace yahoo messenger on windows. Yesterday I downloaded kyim, it works but I doesn't support different yahoo chat rooms.

I presume Gaim also doesn't support this.

Looking forward for some answer.