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

["Alonxo" <mariachiac aim com>]

I forgot to mention you may need to be rute to remove files. Encase your system complains remove them with 
root or by using sudo in front of your commands when logged in as jerry for example. You should not have to 
be root though as .purple is in your home directory and is the default location your terminal will start. 
Just a thought. Typing on a phone is sometimes a bit unconbersome.

Alonxo

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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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