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Lord C

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« on: 11 April 2003, 18:52 »
So ok, you got rid of Windoze and all your M$ software, but all your firends are still using MSN Messenger - I had this problem, i couldnt find a decent msn messenger client for Linux.

Here's a list of some i use now.
GAIM - Comes with Mandrake, simple, ugly, no file sending

Everybudy - Also come with Mandrake, even uglier then GAIM, but it does support file sending.

Kmerlin - Download from SorceForge. Looks smart, is wicked. Full functionability, ie uyou can send files and it even has the groups/tabs like the new msn messenger versions. Worth Getting.
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« Reply #1 on: 11 April 2003, 18:58 »
use gaim. the new version (0.61) has everything you want, multiple protocols, file sending/receiving, a slick gtk2 interface.


http://gaim.sf.net
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« Reply #2 on: 11 April 2003, 19:46 »
yep, aim kicks botty. but if you want a program that is a real msn lookalike, get amsn from amsn.sourceforge.net (i recommend gaim over it though, gaim is a lot more versatile).
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« Reply #3 on: 12 April 2003, 00:29 »
noo0o0o, not amsn! lolz!

I forgot to mention this one - i tired it first, and it sucks!

It looks like msn, and certainyl acts like it !

PS: it cant run without terminal
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The new Gaim needs more downloads too :/

GTK2 for one

[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: BaDDaSS[Mandrake] ]

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« Reply #4 on: 12 April 2003, 03:43 »
Get the source RPM and rebuild it.  GTK 2 is there on Mandrake, just that the way the regular RPM looks for it, it doesn't find it for some reason.
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« Reply #5 on: 14 April 2003, 20:36 »
About GAIM...

 
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Originally posted by BaDDaSS[Mandrake]:
Yes it is VERY nice!

But the RPMs wouldnt work for me - said i didnt have GTK2 (which of course i do).

I downloaded the source and installed iut no problem.

PS: if you install GAIM using the source, as i did, and you still have previous GAIM, when typing Run > GAIM you will still get the old game.
Create a shortcut to '/usr/local/bin/gaim'
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« Reply #6 on: 15 April 2003, 12:50 »
quote:
Originally posted by emh:
Get the source RPM and rebuild it.  GTK 2 is there on Mandrake, just that the way the regular RPM looks for it, it doesn't find it for some reason.
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« Reply #7 on: 15 April 2003, 14:50 »
PS: it cant run without terminal

Open menudrake as root
Edit the system menu
Add amsn to the menu
There, now it can run without the terminal.   :eek:
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« Reply #8 on: 15 April 2003, 15:14 »
i never had any problems running it without a terminal, what the hell kind of problems are you having?
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« Reply #9 on: 15 April 2003, 18:44 »
My personal thought was :
Poster didnt have amsn in the menu.
So to run amsn he had to open a terminal.
As the terminal was running amsn if he closed the terminal so would amsn.

Correct me if any of this is wrong...
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« Reply #10 on: 15 April 2003, 19:06 »
oh yeah, but still, wouldn't you figure out pretty quickly that that was the reason?

why not just have a runbox on your taskbar or whatever (or a button that brings up a runbox) for those one word commands?
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« Reply #11 on: 15 April 2003, 19:17 »
not everyone knows that runbox is there, especially not someone new to linux.
no offence but you know when sometimes people claim that linux users are elitist? this could be one of those times... i'm not saying it was on purpose but you didn't really consider the fact that this was someone reasonably new to our favorite OS...
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« Reply #12 on: 15 April 2003, 19:38 »
ok, (hangs head) i'm sorry.
i just assumed people would know about the runbox because it's in all the win32 systems on the start menu.
i'll try not to be elitist again!
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« Reply #13 on: 15 April 2003, 19:50 »
okeydokey dukey, you're forgiven.  :D
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« Reply #14 on: 20 April 2003, 06:03 »
i believe that gaim (0.67) has file sharing capabilities!
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