Haven't noticed any performance problems here. The timeout is due to Skype4Pidgin not waiting long enough for Skype to start up. I had the same problem when I had Pidgin and Skype running at startup.
A script like this might do the trick, it basically waits 5 seconds before starting Pidgin.
#! /bin/sh
skype &
sleep 5
pidgin
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Do I have to run Skype to run Skype for Pidgin?
We don't support that plugin here, we consider it a GPL violation. But yes, you do as far as I know.
Maybe I should remove it as it has made Pidgin extremely slow. Sometimes it times out before connecting to Skype.
Haven't noticed any performance problems here. The timeout is due to Skype4Pidgin not waiting long enough for Skype to start up. I had the same problem when I had Pidgin and Skype running at startup.
A script like this might do the trick, it basically waits 5 seconds before starting Pidgin.
#! /bin/sh
skype &
sleep 5
pidgin
I have Pidgin on Windows.Where and how wold I have this script?