It's been awhile since I've been here so bare with me in case this has been asked before. I have been running v2.00 beta6 now but have been using since beta1. What I am curious about is 2 things.
1 .... when I start up Gaim, it does not connect right away as it use to. I usually have to click on either "available" or "away" then it will connect. But If I don't click on either, it will just sit there saying "waiting for network". I am running this on Kubuntu feisty fawn.
2 .... When someone messages me, the chat window would pop up to the front. Now it seems all I can do is use a plugin that alerts me to someone typing and leaving me a message. Otherwise I wouldn't know the person responded. I can/could not find anyway to set it so that it would pop up to the front if someone messaged me.
Other than that I would trade it for the world. Gaim is a great program that I've come to rely on.
Thanks
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Your gaim was built with Network Manager support and Network Manager isn't talking to gaim as quickly as gaim wants or isn't started yet or is just broken or some such, that is what causes the 'waiting for network connection' message. So fixing Network Manager or removing/disabling it should probably fix that problem.
The Message Notification plugin does indeed have the 'Raise window on new message' option at this point, if you have that on and it still isn't working then go kill the right amount, right parts of the focus stealing prevention that KDE has set up as that is likely what is preventing it from working.
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Yep my knetworkmanager is not working for me so I probably will uninstall it till it's out of beta. As for the second suggestion, I do have it checked to raise window but it does not. I will have to look into the focus stealing you mention.
Thanks
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Hi,
It's been awhile since I've been here so bare with me in case this has been asked before. I have been running v2.00 beta6 now but have been using since beta1. What I am curious about is 2 things.
1 .... when I start up Gaim, it does not connect right away as it use to. I usually have to click on either "available" or "away" then it will connect. But If I don't click on either, it will just sit there saying "waiting for network". I am running this on Kubuntu feisty fawn.
2 .... When someone messages me, the chat window would pop up to the front. Now it seems all I can do is use a plugin that alerts me to someone typing and leaving me a message. Otherwise I wouldn't know the person responded. I can/could not find anyway to set it so that it would pop up to the front if someone messaged me.
Other than that I would trade it for the world. Gaim is a great program that I've come to rely on.
Thanks
#2 can be solved by using the Message Notifications plugin (Tools->Plugins, enable and configure it to your liking).
Thanks, I had the plugin but it was not enabled. I set it up and will see if it does the job for me. Thanks for pointing it out.
Well I tried it all day today and not once did the chat window pop to the front when someone messaged me. Very disappointing. Anyone else see this?
Your gaim was built with Network Manager support and Network Manager isn't talking to gaim as quickly as gaim wants or isn't started yet or is just broken or some such, that is what causes the 'waiting for network connection' message. So fixing Network Manager or removing/disabling it should probably fix that problem.
The Message Notification plugin does indeed have the 'Raise window on new message' option at this point, if you have that on and it still isn't working then go kill the right amount, right parts of the focus stealing prevention that KDE has set up as that is likely what is preventing it from working.
Yep my knetworkmanager is not working for me so I probably will uninstall it till it's out of beta. As for the second suggestion, I do have it checked to raise window but it does not. I will have to look into the focus stealing you mention.
Thanks