Notices

Originally Posted by Bookishwitch

Can anyone tell me where Pidgin saves the conversation logs? Can I transfer them to my computer to read at a later date?

Originally Posted by mase

Is it possible to start pidgin automatically when booting?

Originally Posted by b666m

(close pidgin)
open up xterm and type "cd .purple" and then "rm status.xml".
all the old status messages should be gone at the next pidgin startup.



most linux distributions use init.d for those kind of work.
maemo uses startup - event.d.
there you have to create a startup-file like this:

Code:

start on started hildon-desktop
script 
        run-standalone.sh /usr/bin/pidgin
end script

(you can name the script whatever you want - for example "pidginautostart")
this file you have to place in: /etc/event.d
(the path would be: /etc/event.d/pidginautostart )



just chill.
maybe a little bit cleaning up would help.
if you aren't lazy and haven't got any problems to type in all of your accounts again then just try following:

(close pidgin)
open up xterm and type "cd .purple" and then "rm *xml".
(your logs aren't affected by doing this)
your pidgin should be pretty virgin at the next start and will ask you for your accounts.

if you are lazy with creating accounts, you have to type some more lines in xterm:
1. cd .purple
2. mv accounts.xml accounts.bak
3. rm *xml
4. mv accounts.bak accounts.xml

if your pidgin doesn't work correctly after this you can try to uninstall it completely via the program manager.
after uninstalling it, open up xterm and type "rm -r .purple".
this will delete all of your preferences including your log-files.
(if you want to save your log-files then do a "cp -r .purple/logs pidgin/" first)
then install pidgin again, fire it up and recreate your accounts. it should be fine now - everything else wouldn't make any sense ^^.
(if you saved your logs in the way i described above you can restore them in xterm by "cp -r pidgin/logs .purple/" and "rm -r pidgin/")

have fun (:

Originally Posted by b666m

they're in: ~/.purple/logs/

of course can you transfer them to your computer.
the easiest thing would be to symlink them to a folder which you can access from your pc - for example the documents-folder.

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can anyone tell me how the "n.set_hint_string" is read by the system?
i mean in the example if i click the notification the string is being read and the browser opens up and shows me the number.
now i would love to know what the system doing with the strings written in this command?

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i wrote some additional code for vibrating the phone when showing the notification. if someone is interested i could post it.

i think you can (nearly) do all the things from this site:
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/DBUS

Originally Posted by Bizzey

hmm the vribration notification sounds nice, could u post it?

Originally Posted by b666m

here you go:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

def showconv_cb (n, action):
	assert action == "showconv"
	print "Click :D"
	n.close()

def my_func(account, sender, message, conversation, flags):

	if bus.pidginbus.PurpleConversationHasFocus(conversation) == 0:

		name = str(sender.split("@")[0])
		buddy = bus.pidginbus.PurpleFindBuddy(account,name)
		alias = bus.pidginbus.PurpleBuddyGetAlias(buddy)
		#icon = bus.pidginbus.PurpleBuddyGetIcon(buddy)
		#icon_path = bus.pidginbus.PurpleBuddyIconGetFullPath(icon)
		proto = bus.pidginbus.PurpleAccountGetProtocolName(account)
		#proid = bus.pidginbus.PurpleAccountGetProtocolId(account)
		conv = str(conversation)

		if alias == "":
			alias = name

		msg = message

		if proto == "XMPP":
			msg = msg[6:-7]
		
		elif proto == "MSN":
			col = msg.find("COLOR")
			if col > -1:
				msg = msg[col+16:-14]

		msg = msg.replace("\n"," ")
		msg = "\""+msg
		if len(msg) > 32:
			msg = msg[:33]+"...\""
		else:
			msg = msg+"\""			

		print alias, "("+sender+") said \""+message+"\" in proto", proto
		#with icon at", icon_path, "in conv", conv

        # it's only commented out for test-reasons because i only try it on ubuntu and console with print
        pynotify.init(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))[0])
        n = pynotify.Notification(alias+" ("+proto+")",msg,"pidgin")
        # -------------------------
        # maybe the next two lines can be used for bringing the conversation window to the foreground 
        # when the notification is being clicked by the user
        # if that is not possible: comment them out or delete them (no use for them)
        n.set_hint_string("dbus-callback-default","im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService /im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject        im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface purple_conversation_present int32:"+conv)
        # n.set_hint_string("dbus-callback-default","com.nokia.osso_browser /com/nokia/osso_browser com.nokia.osso_browser      open_new_window string:\"callto://666\"")
        n.add_action("showconv", "ShowConv Action", showconv_cb)
        n.set_timeout(3000)
        # or do i have to make an "add_action" for the notification?
        # maybe i can just put three NULL arguments there ^^
        # ------------------------
        n.show()

        bus.mcebus.ReqVibratorPatternActivate("PatternChatAndEmail")

import os
import sys
import gobject, dbus
import pynotify

from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
bus = dbus.SessionBus()

obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
bus.pidginbus = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")

objv = bus.get_object("com.nokia.mce.request", "/com/nokia/mce/request")
bus.mcebus = dbus.Interface(objv, "com.nokia.mce" )

bus.add_signal_receiver(my_func,
                        dbus_interface="im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface",
                        signal_name="ReceivedImMsg")

loop = gobject.MainLoop()
loop.run()

Originally Posted by Bizzey

ty for postin but some reason it doesnt work... the other 1 you posted before this worked..

Originally Posted by b666m

is there any error-message when executing it?

something like "unexpected indent"? then please write down the line of this error.

maybe the formatting has gone wrong when pasting the code over here.

i updated the code above. please try again.