On Thursday, August 30, 2012 03:25:06 PM Steven Stern wrote: > On 08/30/2012 02:27 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > > Quoting Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich@xxxxxxxxx> > > > >> wrote: > > [snip] > > > >>> I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I change my > >>> status to > >>> "away" it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything > >>> until I > >>> close Pidgin and start it back up. > > > > [snip]>> > > > >> you might look at pidgin... > > > > Umm... I think you missed in my original post where I said I tried it, > > but I have to shut it down and bring it back up if I want to set an > > "away" message and then come back and use it again. :D > > As far as I know, the Big 2 are empathy and pidgin. Both use libpurple, > so I guess it depends on where the lockup is occurring. > > FWIW, I'm using pidgin with F17 / XFCE and have seen no lockups from it. If you're running KDE why wouldn't you use its native Telepathy? It integrates nicely with the KDE desktop, supports most major protocols, and has a very polished interface. F17's testing repo has the newly released 0.5 version. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org