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Hi Charlie and Aruni,
Unfortunately I am still having no joy with Skype.
Here is what I am doing from what I can remeber as
I am now using XP to send this message.
1. I am opening Skype (It is already installed) and
entering my username and password and pressing tab once then space - without
sighted help I asume this is the remember check box.
2. I am not sure whether or not to login to skype,
but I have then copied the libskype.so shared library to /usr/lib/purple-2. I
have done this before logging in and afterwards. I then quit skype.
3. I then run Pidgin, but Skype does not appear in
the list of availible protocols. The only way I have found to make this happen
is if I install the skype4pidgin.deb package, which brings up Skype and Skype D
Bus in the protocols. I have tried both of these with the same
result.
5. I have then done as you suggested Aruni and
selected no proxy in the relevant box. However, when I navigate to the and press
an arrow key in the tree table of Pidgin everything just quits. - i get no
notification of Skype wanting to use this plugin, although my dad did click the
box saying remember this selection yesterday.
I hope this helps and thank you both so much for
all your help with this issue.
Take care
james
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:33
AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Problems with
Skype
James...
After you download skype and enter your user
name and password are you quiting skype before you launch pidgin? After
placing libskype.so in /usr/lib/purple-2 and
after entering your user name and password into skype press alt F2
to bring up run application and type killall skype to quite
skype. Be sure to check the "sign me in when skype starts" box before
quitting skype. Then launch pidgin and look for the skype protycol. I
might be way off base so I apologize if I am. I hope you can figure this
out. Good luck.
Charlie
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, James &
Nash <james austin1984 googlemail com> wrote:
From:
James & Nash <james austin1984 googlemail com>
Subject:
[orca-list] Problems with Skype
To: orca-list gnome org
Date:
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:55 PM
Hi folks,
Okay, I'm having some real problems with
Skype and Pidgin. I followed the instructions on the work around
page.
After having installed Skype, I copied
the libskype.so shared library to /usr/lib/purple-2 but Skype did not
appear in the list of availible accounts in Pidgin. I found I had to
install the skype4pidgin.deb package and then Skype appeared in the
list along with something called Skype D Bus.
I removed and re-installed Pidgin to the
latest version which i think is 2.5.3, but I am still getting
the problem where Pidgin crashes when I try to navigate
the table of contacts.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated pleased.
Not being able to use Skype would be a major road block in my
moving over to Linux.
PS - My dad did the sighted bit of
clicking the button
Thank you for any and all help
James _______________________________________________
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