GAIM Problems

[Zaphan58]

First off I was not sure whee to put this so if its in the wrong section feel free to move it! Im having problems getting GAIM to show buddyicons in both the chat window and the contact list. The option to show buddy icons in the contact list is selected! I searched and found a thread on the same problem the solution was to change the access rights on /usr/share/pixmaps but that directoy does not exist with GAIM v0.75, I have just emerged 0.75 today from 0.72 and the buddy icons did not work in 0.72 either so I'm stumped! (easily done )

[HolyCoitus]

/usr/share/pixmaps seems to be where it stores the smilies.

.gaim/icons possibly is where it stores the buddy icons? Does that have the correct permissions? Have you cleared out all the settings and the such and checked to see if it recreates the dirs and then works?

[Zaphan58]

.gaim/icons does not seem to exist either heres what in it:

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bash-2.05b$ cd .gaim
bash-2.05b$ dir
accels        blist.xml  id.priv  prefs.xml  status.xml
accounts.xml  id         logs     smileys

My local user accoutn has ownership of .gaim so I would pressume I have the correct permissions for it?

[Kabuto]

All should be under /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim. Check permission on the directories and the files in them.

[Waynafcov]

Hi there,

I am having too, some problems with all the GAIM v0.75 on a x86. I can connect to the hotmail server (and checking new mail), but I can't IM anybody. As soon as I want to send my IM message, gaim just freeze.

I guess I am doing something wrong but did not find what. I search a while on the forum and google. Sorry if i missed something, I am newbee.

could anyone point me where to start looking ? thanks a lot.

PC: pentium4, kernel2.4.20.

USE="X gtk gnome alsa bonobo"

[HolyCoitus]

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[bryan@dwnstairs pts/1] cd .gaim/
[bryan@dwnstairs pts/1] ls
accels        blist.xml      icons/  id.priv  pounces.xml  smileys/
accounts.xml  encrypt.prefs  id      logs/    prefs.xml    status.xml
[bryan@dwnstairs pts/1] ls -l
total 81
-rw-------    1 bryan    users        5553 Jan 21 15:47 accels
-rw-------    1 bryan    users        6564 Jan 21 12:28 accounts.xml
-rw-------    1 bryan    users       17334 Jan 21 12:28 blist.xml
-rw-r--r--    1 bryan    users          87 Nov  3 22:10 encrypt.prefs
drwx------    2 bryan    users        1296 Jan 20 14:42 icons/
-rw-------    1 bryan    users        1460 Oct 16 04:41 id
-rw-------    1 bryan    users        6686 Oct 16 04:41 id.priv
drwx------    6 bryan    users        6776 Dec 20 18:47 logs/
-rw-------    1 bryan    users          62 Dec 19 14:22 pounces.xml
-rw-------    1 bryan    users       10239 Jan 21 12:44 prefs.xml
drwx------    2 bryan    users          48 Aug  7 11:23 smileys/
-rw-------    1 bryan    users        1970 Jan 14 12:37 status.xml

My directory for .gaim looks like that with those perms. Possibly try creating the directory and see what happens?

[Zaphan58]

Mine loosk like this

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bash-2.05b$ ls -l
total 37
-rw-r--r--    1 chris    users        3773 Jan 21 22:06 accels
-rw-------    1 chris    users        1148 Jan 22 13:06 accounts.xml
-rw-------    1 chris    users        3873 Jan 22 13:06 blist.xml
-rw-------    1 chris    users         484 Jan 20 17:27 id
-rw-------    1 chris    users        2226 Jan 20 17:27 id.priv
drwx------    3 chris    users         208 Jan 20 17:14 logs
-rw-------    1 chris    users       11182 Jan 22 13:06 prefs.xml
drwx------    2 chris    users          48 Aug  8 19:01 smileys
-rw-------    1 chris    users         184 Oct 31 19:50 status.xml

Really odd why the directorys are not being created, I will try and create them I'm a real noob to linux so it might take some workign out hw to set the permissions on the directorys.