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Cmd Line Arguments to Pidgin?

garg654
2007-11-11
2013-01-14
  • garg654

    garg654 - 2007-11-11

    I use Launchy, a keystroke launcher for winXP (http://www.launchy.net/), and I wanted to know if I can save any commands in it that I can use with Pidgin.

    I can do so with Yahoo Messenger. I can type "yahoo messenger | USERNAME | MESSAGE" in Launchy and it can substitute the messages into Launchy as I have set it to excute the following command: ymsgr:sendIM?$1&m=$2 where $1 and $2 are the variables with the username and message.

    Is there a similar way to set up pidgin like that?

    Thank you.

     
    • Etan Reisner

      Etan Reisner - 2007-11-20

      As of a couple of versions ago pidgin is able to register itself as the handler for a number of IM uri schemes, among those is the ymsgr: scheme, if you told pidgin to do that when you installed it I believe you should just be able to 'run' a url of that form and pidgin should handle it. I may be wrong about how this works exactly as I don't really use Windows.