The released version 0.7 of the singleclick hack fixes a problem with minimized conversation windows. If the new message notification in the system tray was clicked, a minimized conversation window was not unminimized. Only the notification icon in the tray disappeared. It seems to be a general Pidgin bug under windows.

The new v0.7 of the singleclick hack is already included in Pidgin 2.7.3 – DotnineEdition v.1.1 (released today). This is also the only change from version 1.0.

A new version of the windows singleclick hack for pidgin 2.7.3 is released.

• Single click on the pidgin system tray will open/close the buddy list like a double click
• Single click on the pidgin system tray will close the buddy list if already focused or on top (full visible)
• If the buddy list is hidden by another window, a single click on the system tray icon will bring it to the top

The hack is compatible with pidgin 2.7.3 for windows, standard or portable.

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Pidgin 2.7.2 is released with several stability fixes.

AIM and ICQ

• Fix a crash bug related to X-Status messages that can be triggered by remove users.
• Fix a rare crash bug caused by certain incoming SMS messages.
• Change HTML sent from ICQ accounts so that official ICQ clients hopefully display it correctly.

MSN

• Fix a crash related to fast buddy icon transfers.

In their third try it seems that the developers were able to finally fix the ICQ html send bug.

But, what’s new in the DotnineEdition release? Beside some little changes in the default settings, two “new” plugins made it in the preconfigured pack.

1. Nicksaid
2. Toolbar shrink

The new version is downloadable over the Pidgin – DotnineEdition page or directly here. This version includes the single click hack/improvement for Pidgin.

As you can see, Miranda IM – DotnineEdition is on ice. The problem is, that OTR and some other relevant plugins are not working well since newer protocol/core versions and they will be not updated soon.

The other point is, that Pidgin seems quite easier to configure and for me much more stable. There are also no database integrity problems as everything is saved into XML files. Some Plugins will be missed in Pidgin if you come from Miranda IM. There are also less plugins available and sometimes hard to find.  But Pidgin have a really good API documentation, which should make it easy to create them by yourself. I created the autohide and scroll to bottom plugin to get my basic functionality used under Miranda IM. Another point I really missed was the single click behaviour from Miranda IM. For Pidgin you have to double click on the system tray icon to show the buddy list. Therefore I created a single click hack to make it behave like Miranda IM under Windows.

Autohide

• Autohide buddy list if out of focus for a specified time
• Make buddy list always on top, also if not focused
• Remove the maximize/minimize buttons of the buddy list

Scroll to bottom

• Scrolls chat history of created conversation windows automatically to the bottom

Single click hack

• Single click on the pidgin system tray will open/close the buddy list like a double click
• Single click on the pidgin system tray will close the buddy list if already focused or on top (full visible)
• If the buddy list is hidden by another window, a single click on the system tray icon will bring it to the top

All these plugins, hacks and much more are included in the new
Pidgin – DotnineEdition, preconfigured for those which don’t want to search for all these little improvements.

The Miranda IM DotnineEdition is updated to v2.3.6.0. If fixes the OTR problem with windows 7 and updated the core to 0.8.11.

OTR will not work well with the spell-checker plug-in and windows 7. It can take up to five minutes to create a secure connection with OTR. The computer with a CPU usage of 100% will not react for this time. Creating a new OTR-Key can take even longer. You must remove spellcheckerW.dll or disable it in your Miranda IM plug-in options.

The DotnineEdition installer will automatically remove the spell-checker plug-in from your installed Miranda IM version if you update it with OTR enabled.

Download at http://miranda.dotninesoft.de/.

Teamspeak 3 Beta1 is out and there are some problems running it under Linux. I wrote a step by step howto to set up a ts3 server on linux.

HowTo:

First you have to create a user which runs the ts3 server (root is a bad idea):

useradd ts3

After this change to the user and move to his home directory:

su ts3
cd ~

Download and extract the Teamspeak 3 server (this is the 64bit version):

wget http://ftp.4players.de/pub/hosted/ts3/releases/beta-1/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.0-beta1.tar.gz
tar zxvf teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.0-beta1.tar.gz

Now move to the extracted folder and start the Teamspeak 3 server:

cd teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64
./ts3server_linux_amd64 &

Write down the user name and password which is shown on the screen for server admin rights. The first log file under /logs in the ts3 server folder contains the admin token. This token can be used once to register a user with admin rights.

Problems:

2009-12-20 10:49:39.852960|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   | Server Version: 3.0.0-beta1 [Build: 9366]
2009-12-20 10:49:39.890852|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   | dbPlugin name:    SQLite3 plugin, (c)TeamSpeak Systems GmbH
2009-12-20 10:49:39.891284|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   | dbPlugin version: 3.6.4
2009-12-20 10:49:39.971083|WARNING |Accounting    |   | Unable to find valid license key, falling back to limited functionality
2009-12-20 10:49:40.312599|ERROR   |Accounting    |   | failed to register accounting service
2009-12-20 10:49:40.318183|ERROR   |ServerLibPriv |   | Server() error while starting servermanager, error: instance check error

If you are not able to start the ts3 server (after you started is with root rights or with another users), empty the /tmp server. Teamspeak 3 creates a lock file to check if the service runs.

[strace error information]
...
unlink("/tmp/7gbhujb54g8z9hu43jre8")    = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
open("/tmp/7gbhujb54g8z9hu43jre8", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW, 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
...

The Miranda core is updated to version 0.8.9 which fixes several bugs also in the jabber protocol. Several plug-ins are updated to their newest version. You are able to install it over an old v2.3.x.y installation.

Download at http://miranda.dotninesoft.de/.

The Miranda core is updated to version 0.8.7 which fixes several bugs. A few plugins are also updated to the newest version.

Download at http://miranda.dotninesoft.de/.

Miranda IM – DotnineEdition v2.3.3.0 is released. This update includes Miranda IM Core 0.8.6 and several new plug-in versions.

Enhancements:

• Performance improvements with network logging disabled
• AIM: Added send directory ability
• MSN: Added ability to transfer all files in a directory
• MSN: Use protocol username for chat names in contact list

Bugfixes:

• Fixed possible crash in the file transfer window while scrolling
• Fixed file transfer resume
• AIM: AIM 7 is now detected
• AIM: Improved file transfer support
• Jabber: Ignored the “Manual host” setting during the account registration
• MSN: Fixed chats with IM Control users
• MSN: Auth request reason is now displayed
• MSN: Fixed deletion of contact from Hotmail address book
• MSN: Fixed avatar sending on chat session

Download at http://miranda.dotninesoft.de/.