tkcjabber or Gaim

[nitup]

RE: firewall,  Nothing special is needed if it\'s a basic NAT\'d firewall.  The only part that won\'t work (and you probably would not want this on the Z anyhow)  is file transfer.  I\'ve never had to deal with an active firewall, so I can\'t help there.

RE: Guest, you need to be root, at the promt issue the command \'su\'

[shadowkwarrior]

ah thx, sorry wasnt logged in

[Anonymous]

The problem with GAIM is spit out very clearly in the output when run from a terminal.  It give nasty warnings that make the problem clear.

The author compiled qpe-gaim .4 with the libpng header file from 1.0.9 (very old) and is executing it against a libpng 1.2.5 library.  I was going to rebuild a \"good\" version compiled against the correct stuff, but unfortunately the author did not post the source code.  That one is wierd.  The source is availabel for the previous versions, but not .4.  

Things that make you go hmmmm...

[tawalker]

I\'ve now got Gaim working, and set up my MSN account on it. When I start up the program, it logs me onto MSN, but then if I get a notification of e-mails, and I OK the mesage box, Gaim seems to \"bomb out\". Has anyone else encountered this?

Many thanks,
Tim.

[Anonymous]

I\'m having the same problem as Tehas, I\'m working on it however and I\'ll let you know if I figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I have a few comments/questions.

1) First off tumnus you rock. Just curious, how would someone figure out to do a symbolic link from libqte.so.2.3.2 to libpng12.so.0? I\'d love to understand how one can derive that. My hats off to you ..

2) The gui does start now,,, I need to test out setting up accounts and see where she goes. Spent hours getting to this point.

3) From command line I do still get the error of Q+ embedded data dictionary is not owned by user 0. My root is pointing to /home/root writable across the board.

4) Im using terminal for input. The keys are so small. Using vncserver, it also yields a tiny screen. Is there any consoles (remote or otherwise) that are bigger? Also, if you type incorrectly, some shells (i dont think bash) allow you to do history and hit 23! to enter command 23 and you can modify what you mistyped. Know of anyway with bash to do this?

5) Tumnus, laughs do you have a tech guide on how to configure apps on the zaurus. I\'m very impressed.

Thanks much
Greg

[Anonymous]

I do think that GAIM though does have some problems.. I got to the gui, and cant get a chat or im for either msn or yahoo. I do have the .gaim directory already with root writable. Be interested if anyone is successful in doing chats via either of these protocols. I haven\'t really tested aol, irc, or icq though...

THanks

[tumnus]

1) First off tumnus you rock. Just curious, how would someone figure out to do a symbolic link from libqte.so.2.3.2 to libpng12.so.0? I\'d love to understand how one can derive that. My hats off to you ..

Erm, actually someone else posted that ages ago on the DevNet forums, although it was for another app. In general though it comes from knowing how static linking works and knowing that libqte was statically linked to libpng.

3) From command line I do still get the error of Q+ embedded data dictionary is not owned by user 0. My root is pointing to /home/root writable across the board.

What ROM are you using? I do not get that error with the latest Sharp ROM where you run most stuff as the \'zaurus\' user and hence have /home/zaurus as the home directory.

4) Im using terminal for input. The keys are so small. Using vncserver, it also yields a tiny screen. Is there any consoles (remote or otherwise) that are bigger? Also, if you type incorrectly, some shells (i dont think bash) allow you to do history and hit 23! to enter command 23 and you can modify what you mistyped. Know of anyway with bash to do this?

If you get the latest VNC Server, there\'s an option for doubling the screen size. Not pretty, but it makes things easier to see. And as for history in Bash, you can just press up. There are also lots of howtos on the web for bash.

5) Tumnus, laughs do you have a tech guide on how to configure apps on the zaurus. I\'m very impressed.

Nah, I just spend too much time on the forums

I\'ve got MSN and Jabber working with Gaim. When you start Gaim from the terminal, make sure you get a lines like these for MSN with no error messages straight after:

plugins: probing /usr/lib/gaim/libmsn.so
plugins: probing /usr/lib/gaim/ssl-gnutls.la
plugins: probing /usr/lib/gaim/ssl-gnutls.so
plugins: probing /usr/lib/gaim/ssl.la
plugins: probing /usr/lib/gaim/ssl.so

[Anonymous]

Hi,
 Ok Im at rom 1.32 (sharp) latest,, qtopia 1.54, and linux kernel 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix.

From console after plugins,

I get failed to open file /home/zaurus/.gaim/prefs.xml permission denied.
both on this accts and ponce (dont know what ponce is).. In this directory are 3 files, accounts.xml, blist.xml, and prefs.xml. It doesnt appear to look for blist.

If I try to do from su root.then I get Q+/Embedded data dictionary is not owned by user 0.

Hmmm. dont understand that.

From gui, it opens but doesnt really give me much to work with..

I guess I can change the permissions on these files to rwrwrw? But what of ponces? Id think running from root should work, but apparently qtopia doesnt like me doing this...

Any other thoughts?

Thanks
Greg

[tumnus]

Strange that the permissions would be wrong. root cannot run Qtopia apps because of a feature similar to Xauth in X Windows. Run the following commands as root to make sure the directory is readable.

chown -R zaurus.qpe /home/zaurus/.gaim
chmod -R u+rw /home/zaurus/.gaim
chmod u+x /home/zaurus/.gaim

Then try launching Gaim as normal

Don\'t worry about the pounces file.

[Anonymous]

What is the pounces file? Curious.. the other errors went away, turns out the only real change was that /home/zaurus/.gaim was owned by root not zaurus. Maybe, when I installed it, I did so from root, which I guess is a no no. I think because I had some problems with it, when I did the package install, I su to root maybe?

 WHen I get home, I\'ll try it. Kinda weird at work, that even though our external ap, has dns , I can\'t resolve addresses here and at home I can.
Oh well..

We shall see. I have to mess with these apps at home.

So, you were able to get msn working, yahoo doesnt because they changed the way it works recently, and the other chats work?? or dont.
I\'ll write and put my findings later on. Thanks for help

[Anonymous]

msn was able to work!!! but interesting on icon group, top left is chat, the second one on left,kills the session. dont know what it is supposed to be for?

2) when trying to use yahoo, it doesnt work. I get yahoo service 0x01 status 0

  yahoo service: 0x12 status 1
  key: 143 value 60
 key : 144 value : 13
 unhandled service 0x12
yahoo_html_to_codes: returning string: \'why\' (my message here)

just doesnt send message or recognize user is online...?



==============================================
also of note:

First time thru gui, msn seemed to be ok until I hit the second icon on top when it crashed. Then started under local (zaurus) id not root and got the following errors:


prefs: error reading prefs: failed to open file /home/zaurus/.gaim/prefs.xml permission denied

same on accounts.xml

same pounces

GLib warning: GErrorset over the top of previous error or uninitialized memory,

this indicates a bug in someones code. you must ensure an error is null before its set. The overwriting error message was . \"Failed to open file /home/zaurus/.gaim/blist.xml permission denied.

For some reason, root took ownership, so i chowned these to zaurus. Now it starts thru command line again.

*** The second part of post is user stupidity (me). I set gaim to run with root privilege so it changed the ownership of gaim directory!!! Dumb.

[nitup]

Yahoo is broken with gaim.  Yahoo changed the protocol.  

http://gaim.sf.net/

<...snip...>

2) when trying to use yahoo, it doesnt work. I get yahoo service 0x01 status 0

  yahoo service: 0x12 status 1
  key: 143 value 60
 key : 144 value : 13
 unhandled service 0x12
yahoo_html_to_codes: returning string: \'why\' (my message here)

just doesnt send message or recognize user is online...?

<...snip...>

[pointydog]

Anyone ever try qtjim?

I tried to get gaim working following the info here, and still no icons. I have made a text file of the reply to the  -s command, and the error message when running from the console, but i can\'t figure out how to paste it into a message from the Z!

qtjim\'s .ipk needs a .jar file. The creator gives a command to install it, but no go.

Anyone have any ideas?

[n8a]

Did anyone get MSN and Yahoo working?

For MSN, I get the same results described by tawalker above:

I\'ve now got Gaim working, and set up my MSN account on it. When I start up the program, it logs me onto MSN, but then if I get a notification of e-mails, and I OK the mesage box, Gaim seems to \"bomb out\". Has anyone else encountered this?  

I get a ton of information at the shell when I launch gaim, as it is able to download my buddy list and determine how many new msgs I have, but once I hit OK, it bombs and in the shell outputs \"msn: Destroying message\"

For Yahoo, I enter all account information and it quickly fails regardless of what server setting I use (scs.msg.yahoo.com or scs.yahoo.com).

Anyone?