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Configuring idle maker plugin

Hari Dara
2007-06-08
2013-01-14
  • Hari Dara

    Hari Dara - 2007-06-08

    In the latest pidgin, I can enable the I'dle Mak'er plugin, but there is no option to configure it. What is its purpose?

    The reason I was looking at is that I am finding Pidgin not changing my status back to Available from Idle even though I am very active on the system (using keyboard and moues). And in fact I am going through all the options in the pidgin and it still doesn't recognize that I am Available. This may be a bug in Pidgin, but I was hoping that Idle Maker has some options to fix this behavior.

     
    • Etan Reisner

      Etan Reisner - 2007-06-09

      Look in the Tools menu.

       
    • Etan Reisner

      Etan Reisner - 2007-06-09

      The idle maker plugin has no bearing on pidgin paying attention to your computer usage. Check your idle usage preference in pidgin what is it set to? Are you noticing a very large delay or just larger than you are used to? Something on the order of one minute? Or more like ten minutes?

       
      • Hari Dara

        Hari Dara - 2007-06-09

        The settings that I have are:
        Report idel time: Based on keyboard or mouse use
        Auto-reply: when both away and idel
        Change Status when idle: checked
        Minutes before changing status: 5
        Change status to: Away
        Use status from last exti at status: checked

        I am noticing that sometimes it detects immediately, sometimes not even for several minutes. So far whenever I noticed this issue, I had to always manually change it, but haven't tried to notice for how long I might have been back. The next time I can see if it will change even after an hour.

         
    • Hari Dara

      Hari Dara - 2007-06-11

      I have noticed that the status doesn't change even after a couple of hours of using both keyboard and mouse. This basically means something is broken. Hasn't anyone else noticed this problem?

       
      • Etan Reisner

        Etan Reisner - 2007-06-11

        I haven't heard anyone having this problem. The timeout for detecting computer activity was increased for 2.0.1 but the detection should still be on the order of a minute, not hours. Is this linux or Windows?

         
        • Hari Dara

          Hari Dara - 2007-06-11

          This is windows XP.