fuzzylizard Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 I have been using Kopete as my IM client, but I have found that it seems to be a major memory hog and everytime I try to close it (i.e. exit the program) it crashes on me. And I mean literally everytime. Has anyone else noticed this or experienced this behaviour? So what do people find works the best for IM (aim, msn, jabber, etc) in terms of resources and stability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 blardewaw afro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 gaim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnubie Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Gaim is the only IM client I have tried on Linux, so I can't really tell you it is the best. But let's just say I never had a reason to try any other. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 I use Kopete and no it doesn't crash when I close it. There is a more recent version of it than the one that ships with MDK 9.2 which is what I am using. If you haven't already I would recommend upgrading to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 gaim I used kopete and it was very unstable. I moved to gaim reluctantly and havent looked back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Yea, I am starting to get the idea that I am going to have to move to gaim. I really don't want to because I do like kopete, but I can't have an app that eats up that much memory and crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 I tried using Gaim with MSN and got disconnected due to an unsupported protocol error. I realize that as of Oct 15, Microsoft supposedly had stopped accepting any other client other than their own. However, kopete had managed to find a way around this. Has anyone been able to get Gaim to work with MSN in the last few weeks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 I tried using Gaim with MSN and got disconnected due to an unsupported protocol error. I realize that as of Oct 15, Microsoft supposedly had stopped accepting any other client other than their own. However, kopete had managed to find a way around this. Has anyone been able to get Gaim to work with MSN in the last few weeks? update and it works fine 0.72 is latest. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...hp?group_id=235 0.71 & 0.70 work too. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!nkubus Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 how did you innstall gaim 0.72 or 0.71, urpmi with plf and textars sources giveme some depency problems, litcl, and i i install libtcl it gives me soem others errors :( so im oblige to use kopete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 Which mandrake version are you using now? If you are using 9.2, someone here posted that he/she created gaim .71 rpms for mandrake 9.2 a while back. His/her website is located at http://mircea.interplus.ro/ftp/ultraupdates . Note that you have to install gaim and libgaim-remote rpms. If you are using 9.1.. the rpms in http://gaim.sourceforge.net should suffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!nkubus Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 (edited) i' musing 9.2 thanks for the link :) Edited November 3, 2003 by !nkubus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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