I can no longer change things like pressing Ctrl-Enter to send a message (instead of just plain-old Enter).
is there any way to change this setting in the new version of Gaim? It's driving me nuts.
While I'm at it, is there any way to have Gaim automatically change text color ONLY for text that is the same color as the window color? I like having black backgrounds in my windows (via a GTK theme I downloaded), but hate having to strip the formatting from ALL my friends' text just because a few use black text. Vanilla AIM does this automatically, so I'd like to think that Gaim has a way to do it.
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Read the FAQ for your Control-Enter question, and no gaim does not have a way to automatically change colors that match the background. If you wanted to write a good patch for that it would likely be included but it might not be easy to get right. (As I have heard complaints about the way AOL does it as well.)
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I'm sorry, but I don't see what you are talking about in the FAQ. . . I'm not an experienced user of this sort of software (It took me days just to get that darned GTK skin to work), so I might be missing something simple.
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"Gaim used to have an option in the preferences window which let you choose whether to use Enter or Ctrl-Enter to send a message. This was less than optimal for many reasons, not least of which was because it only let you choose between those two options. It also caused large problems for people who required an alternate input method (people who were typing in Chinese or Japanese for example). On top of all this gtk provides an incredibly nice mechanisms which allows keybindings to be set for things via the gtk theme files. Gaim decided to use this gtk interface as a method of allowing people to use Ctrl-Enter to send but to also allow people to use anything else they felt like and to reduce the clutter in the User Interface. The gtk interface is, unfortunately, not as immediately obvious as a simple checkbox, however it is still simple. The example gtkrc file seen here shows you how to do it (among other things)."
but unfortunately, I don't know how to implement that. I saw the thing about emacs keybindings (I know enough to know that emacs is a java compiler, and that's about it, so I initially ignored the link) but don't understand where that file is. I can't find anything similar to that in my gaim directory. Sorry that I am asking what are probably simple questions, but I'm not used to this stuff at all. I had my very first experience w/ Pico just two days ago :(
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I agree that the FAQ instructions and the included examples are difficult to understand. Especially since there does not appear to be a specific example for changing the behavior from the default send key, which right now is <Enter>, to simply be <Ctrl><Enter>.
What works for me is to create a text file called gtkrc-2.0, the contents of which are between the 2 dashed lines:
I can no longer change things like pressing Ctrl-Enter to send a message (instead of just plain-old Enter).
is there any way to change this setting in the new version of Gaim? It's driving me nuts.
While I'm at it, is there any way to have Gaim automatically change text color ONLY for text that is the same color as the window color? I like having black backgrounds in my windows (via a GTK theme I downloaded), but hate having to strip the formatting from ALL my friends' text just because a few use black text. Vanilla AIM does this automatically, so I'd like to think that Gaim has a way to do it.
Read the FAQ for your Control-Enter question, and no gaim does not have a way to automatically change colors that match the background. If you wanted to write a good patch for that it would likely be included but it might not be easy to get right. (As I have heard complaints about the way AOL does it as well.)
I'm sorry, but I don't see what you are talking about in the FAQ. . . I'm not an experienced user of this sort of software (It took me days just to get that darned GTK skin to work), so I might be missing something simple.
It's from this page: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq2.php#q20
"Gaim used to have an option in the preferences window which let you choose whether to use Enter or Ctrl-Enter to send a message. This was less than optimal for many reasons, not least of which was because it only let you choose between those two options. It also caused large problems for people who required an alternate input method (people who were typing in Chinese or Japanese for example). On top of all this gtk provides an incredibly nice mechanisms which allows keybindings to be set for things via the gtk theme files. Gaim decided to use this gtk interface as a method of allowing people to use Ctrl-Enter to send but to also allow people to use anything else they felt like and to reduce the clutter in the User Interface. The gtk interface is, unfortunately, not as immediately obvious as a simple checkbox, however it is still simple. The example gtkrc file seen here shows you how to do it (among other things)."
The gtkrc file "here" links to is: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gtkrc-2.0
but unfortunately, I don't know how to implement that. I saw the thing about emacs keybindings (I know enough to know that emacs is a java compiler, and that's about it, so I initially ignored the link) but don't understand where that file is. I can't find anything similar to that in my gaim directory. Sorry that I am asking what are probably simple questions, but I'm not used to this stuff at all. I had my very first experience w/ Pico just two days ago :(
I agree that the FAQ instructions and the included examples are difficult to understand. Especially since there does not appear to be a specific example for changing the behavior from the default send key, which right now is <Enter>, to simply be <Ctrl><Enter>.
What works for me is to create a text file called gtkrc-2.0, the contents of which are between the 2 dashed lines:
---------------------------------------------------
binding "my-bindings"
{
bind "Return" { "insert-at-cursor" ("\n") }
bind "<ctrl>Return" { "message_send" () }
}
widget "*gaim_gtkconv_entry" binding "my-bindings"
---------------------------------------------------
If that file already exists, just append those lines at the end of the file.
You don't say if you're running Linux or Windows. I run both and the file is the same. The location for each is:
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<your user ID>\
Linux: ~/.gaim/
I don't recall where I found this tip - I googled for it - but it works for me.
thanks a lot! I was able to get it working. . . ahhh, sweet Ctrl-Enter :)