Emacs key bindings for Gaim?

This has nothing to do with gaim, all you need to do is to set gtk's keybindings to emacs. Either use the Desktop Preferences/Keyboard shortcuts (from gnome) or create a .gtkrc that includes /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc. Be aware that this will set emacs keybindings globally for all gtk apps.

Thanks for the tip. However, it doesn't seem to work. I added that line to my ~/.gtkrc, verified that /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc exist (and looks correct), quit gaim, and restarted it. Ctrl-A doesn't take me to the beginnning of the line. It still does "select-all". :-(

Considering that this is a global GTK change, have you tried restarting X? (I would say restarting GNOME, but better safe than sorry...)

I'll be damned if I'm gonna restart X and loose all my app windows to try and fix a key binding.

Come on. GTK is a library. Gaim is an application that uses the library. Why should restarting X be any more effective than restarting Gaim? To GTK only re-read config files if it thinks that no other GTK-based apps are currently running?

That'd be weird.

As for the GNOME comment, I'm not using GNOME.

> Come on. GTK is a library. Gaim is an application
> that uses the library. Why should restarting X be
> any more effective than restarting Gaim? To GTK
> only re-read config files if it thinks that no
> other GTK-based apps are currently running?

I'm a programmer. You're a programmer. I don't need to tell you that when dealing with other people's code, you assume the worst unless shown code to the contrary. So yes, I would try restarting X which is bound to reinitialize whatever state GTK keeps.

> That'd be weird.

All code sucks.

> As for the GNOME comment, I'm not using GNOME.

OK. What do you use, then?

Heh, yeah, I should have put my pessimistic programm er hat on.

BTW, I use fvwm2. Though I'm tempted to play with the new KDE. I've used KDE off and on so there's a good chance that the latest release fixes the last few bugs I cared about.

Not exactly what you are looking for but I was sick of all of the cross platform clients I just naim (I'm not 100% sure if it supports Yahoo! or not) I can ssh in from just about anywhere and my logs are all in one place. Another nice feature is that I don't have IM windows popping up (which usually says something whom ever is walking by shouldn't see)

Gaim uses GTK2 now, so you probably need to use the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, rather than the ~/.gtkrc file as referenced here: http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.0.0-notes.html

Dor:

Ah ha! That's it

Thanks!

Thanks! That's bothered me for a long time.
Add this one too so you can fix ctrl+w to delete a word, not close the window:
gtk-can-change-accels = 1

So did you have to restart anything (beyond gaim) to get the new key map loaded?

I simply restarted Gaim, as It Should Be. :-)

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Btw, the latest version of Firefox also uses these settings now. However, I ended up running gconf-editor, and change

/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme

setting it to Emacs. I use Gnome 2.8, this was the only way I could figure out how to do it. It doesn't seek to be an option any longer under the Keyboard Shortcuts config panel. (I use KDE on this machine, which maybe makes things more painful than normal).

I think one of the biggest hassles with instant messaging is that it’s tied to the computer. If I’m away from the computer, like watching tv, I may miss an important IM. I can leave the speakers on the PC really loud, but then I’m always jumping up and running back to the PC to read an incoming IM in case it’s important. Most of the time it’s not. I can subscribe to a service with my cell phone—but that costs money. So here is (I think) the perfect solution, and a good GAIM plug-in that’s not too much work.

I just installed a Pluto Home system (plutohome.com). It’s a free, open source smarthome and media server. You put Bluetooth dongles on all the pc’s in your house, and then when you enter a room your Symbian Bluetooth phone turns into a remote control for everything in that room. It already tracks your movement—if you start listening to music in 1 room, your music will follow you as you move with your phone to another room. And it already sends messages to the phone based on events. For example, when the song changes, the cover art shown on my phone changes to show me what’s playing.

So that got me thinking… Why not make a GAIM plugin for pluto so that whenever I get an IM, I see it on my Bluetooth phone? That way I can either type a reply on the phone, or go back to the computer if I want to use the keyboard, or ignore it if it’s not important. And I’m not having to run back and forth to the computer to check IM. And it’s free since it uses Bluetooth! Plus, I think it’s such a real convenience it would be a great way to get people to switch to GAIM.

I talked to the programmers at Pluto and they said it would be really easy since their stuff is already written in small modules and plugins. However, since we’re all open source, we could also just take whatever pieces were useful and do something completely new using the same concept.

Many of the other GAIM projects listed are either specific for only some users (like Apple iChat), or would only be used by geeks (like the Perl interpreter). But not having to run back and forth to the computer is something everybody wants (imho). I don’t see how to recommend a new idea for GAIM, so I’ll just try the forums and hope somebody else likes it too.

Hi!

I use VIM 6.4 as an editor...How do i change the interface of the gaim.. i already have the source codes. Where that source codes located in order to debug the interface? Is in here? (E:\cygwin\home\bling\gaim\src)... or something else....

I really appreciate each info...u

Thanks,

Rick