Gaim?????? whats going on
 

when i used the original gaim on slack 10.1 when I send a message the windows all close and its gone. So I upgraded to 1.3.1 package and in that package there is no AIM protocal, just napster and a few others????????????? any one know whats up with that

I also tried it from source with 1.4.0 and it killed all the windows again when I send a message.

Do you mean the message window gets dissapeared after you send the message? or the whole gaim shuts down ?

If its the first , then you can disable that in the preferences. If second, then something's wrong.

nope, the whole thing goes away, buddy list and all, I have used gaim on like 5 other distros and never encountered this

just tried adding the tray icon plugin to make sure it was going away completly and it is, the whole thing shuts down when you send a message, you can check peoples away messages and info and all that stuff just cant send messages
Is there something in need to intall some support package?????????/

Try running it from the command line, and watch and see if any errors happen when it crashes or stops working.

As for your question, no, not that i know of. The only dependancy you do need that isn't included by default is the firefox encryption for msn .

I used to have a problem like the one you describe. I ran gaim from the command line. And it showed a permission denied error on I think.:
/tmp/mcop-$USERNAME
To fix it all I did was rm -rf /tmp/mcop-$USERNAME
Seemed to do the trick for me.

Mirari, I don't dislike your method to get rid of the usual
/tmp/mcop-$USERNAME permission denied problem, but
you could fix it gently with :
chown -R $USERNAME:users /tmp/mcop-$USERNAME

Hmmm I did what you guys said and loaded it from the prompt and you were right!!!!
it was the mcop thing, but removing the directory didnt do anyting, becuase when I tried again it still did the same thing just made the directory again with a new secret cookie file. but still says
/tmp/mcop-root is accessible owned by user

Do u think maybe I need to add new permissions to this directory

My first question would be:

WHY are you using gaim as root?

I'd seriously reccomend you using a non-superuser account for anything other than admin, and then only as a su session from another user, or using su -c 'command'.


Try it as a normal user and see if it works.

Oh that would be becuase its not my computer and i am sopose to be logged in as root, dont ask me I just do what the job tells me.. Even though you know you shouldnt be doing something doesnt mean that your employer cares to hear about best practices in security policy