On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 02:03, Christopher Hicks wrote: > I've recently been sucked into doing IM by one of my good friends. Its > been far less painful than I remember icq being. There's only been one > major rub: why does gaim override my specified away message with the idle > message? This is really irritating. If I know I'm going to be gone and > I've put up something specific to let people know that I'd really like > that to stick and override the idle timeout default. I know I could > change the idle timeout default away message each time to convey the > relevant information, but that really seems to defeat the purpose of > having customizable away messages. I've had this happen to me twice with > the Fedora gaim-1.0.0-0.FC2 rpm installed on an Opteron box. Hmm, sounds like a bug - bugzilla it, including the release version as well as the fact that you're on an Opteron box. Might be a x86_64 issue > - is there anything out there that makes it easy to move gaim preferences > between machines? rsync ~/.gaim somewhere else. Thats what I do > - I'd like to have the same username work on my laptop and desktop. I > tried setting the jabber "resource" to something unique in each case but > it still only let me login once. Do I have to create different usernames > for each computer I'm going to be on simultaneously? I want to be able to > send URL's between boxes through this for instance. Yes, if you want two logins, you need two UIDs (i.e. something unique). Same for ICQ/MSN/etc... -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
