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
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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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