Re: [orca-list] pixing pidgins main window?

["Alonxo" <mariachiac aim com>]

Hello,
Yes its the same
Apt-get install package
Aptitude install package
They both work. i think you can do the same with apt which is short for aptitude, but not sure what you type with apt. Glad to help. Welcome to the list and linux. I hope you enjoy it.
Alonzo


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Subject: Re: [orca-list] pixing pidgins main window?
From: "Jarrod Jicha" <jamminjerry jjhof com>
Date: 02/01/2009 8:17 PM

ok, this is something I can work with tomorrow, just one good question 
though, is "aptitude " the same as "apt-get" just thought I would ask, as I 
have never used aptitude  before, a friend is teaching me commands, and he 
taught me apt-get.
thanks for your help reguarding this.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alonzo" <mariachiac aim com>
To: "Jarrod Jicha" <jamminjerry jjhof com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] pixing pidgins main window?


> Hello Jerry,
>
> You can do this. It sounds like this will work. You will first need to
> go to the termianl. Press altf2 and type in
> gnome-terminal
> after that, type in the following
> rm -fr .purple
> You woudl then have to remove pidgin completely. You woudl do the
> following in the terminal
> aptitude purge remove pidgin
> You woudl answer y for yes.
> To reinstall you do
> aptitude install pidgin
>
> .purple is the directory where all pidgin configurations for pidgin are
> stored. So when you reinstall pidgin you would go back to the defaults
> and have to configure accounts and preferences. You could alternatively
> mess with an xml file, but I'm not sure how to help with that. The xml
> file you want to look at if wanting to go this rout is .purple/prefs.xml
> so you would open it with nano or vim or an editor
> nano .purple/prefs.xml
>
> Alonzo
>
> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 07:51 -0600, Jarrod Jicha wrote:
>> that is the only problem, I don't think I can get eyeballs over here to 
>> help
>> out.  this is one of the many reasons I wanted to try to switch most of 
>> my
>> daily activities to linux, because I can't usually get eyeballs over 
>> here.
>> and there is no other way? like maybe deleting a file that would store 
>> that
>> setting, so that I could re-create something I am just not sure.  I just
>> hope this is the only problem I am having, that it is just being sent to 
>> the
>> systray, cause I did somethig wrong. I hope it isn't much more than that.
>>
>> Thanks for your help in this matter.  I am extreemly new to linux, and I 
>> am
>> just trying to learn what I can.  I tried looking for a manual for ubuntu
>> that I could download, but to do that, you have to go back and forth 
>> threw
>> loads of pages.  I just want to learn commands, and how to do things. 
>> right
>> now, I have someone kind of helping me out, he logs in threw ssh to help 
>> fix
>> things that need fixing, but I don't want to have to depend on him all 
>> the
>> time.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Alonzo" <mariachiac aim com>
>> To: "Jarrod Jicha" <jamminjerry jjhof com>
>> Cc: "orca mailing list" <orca-list gnome org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: [orca-list] pixing pidgins main window?
>>
>>
>> > Hey there Jerry,
>> >
>> > It sounds like you might of  selected the option in pidgin, but did not
>> > do it the correct way. Usually when you have combo boxes with orca you
>> > hit the space bar and then use the arrows to make your selection. AFter
>> > making your slection you hit hte spacebar again to close the box. On a
>> > webpage using firefox though, you use alt-l to expand them. So it 
>> > sounds
>> > like pidgin is still set to go to the system tray. You might want to 
>> > try
>> > pressing escape when the dialog comes up to log into your accounts. If
>> > you might try having someone one messaging you and it may be restored 
>> > so
>> > you can make those changes. Otherwise you will have ot have sited
>> > assistance open it for you. the icon is located on the top right hand
>> > side if I understand it correctly.
>> >
>> > I hope this helps,
>> > Alonzo
>> >
>> >
>> > On   Sun, 2009-02-01 at 06:16 -0600, Jarrod Jicha wrote:
>> >>
>> >> does anyone know how to fix it to wair I can see the main window? I
>> >> can't alt tab to it at all, even though I told it to never go to the
>> >> system tray I have heard that orca don't work with the system tray
>> >> that well yet, so I told pidgin to never go there.  but for some
>> >> reason when I load pidgin, the main window disapears.  I know I am
>> >> online, but like I said, I just can't see the main pidgin window.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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