Welcome to babelize.org - pidgin-osd
pidgin-osd is an application to print events on the X root screen on receiving incoming messages from pidgin. It uses the xosd library to print various events on the X console.
Why did you start this project?
Well i am using gaim for a very long time, since four years if i remember correctly and since pidgin was released i missed a very useful feature, the on screen display. There exist a patch for gnome-osd to make use of the new purple interface instead of the old gaim one, but i am not using gnome or any of its libraries so i decide to create a new plugin.
pidgin-osd is based on the gaimnosd 0.7 version, the last public available one. This plugin is mostly like the gaimnosd plugin, the only difference is that i implemented utf-8 conversion to the current used locale. This is required if you are not using utf-8 but glib and pidgin handle incoming messages in utf-8.
What exactly is pidgin-osd?
It is a plugin for pidgin which shows incoming messages as osd (on screen display) on top of the X console.
What is needed?
Below you find a list of things which are required to run pidgin-osd successfully.
1. You need glib >= 2.8.0 and for compiling pidgin-osd the header files.
2. You need gtk+ >= 2.8.0 and for compiling pidgin-osd the header files.
3. You need xosd >= 2.2.14 and for compiling pidgin-osd the header files.
4. You need pidgin >= 2.0.0 and for compiling pidgin-osd the header files.
What should i download?
Download the most recent version of pidgin-osd here. If you want an older version take a look at the download directory. Notice: The version 0.1.0 was the first public release. The changelog can be found here.
How do i install it?
Installation is simple, just follow the steps below. pidgin-osd uses autoconf and automake to detect and setup a working built environment.
1. Download pidgin-osd-0.1.0.tar.gz from above.
2. tar xzf pidgin-osd-0.1.0.tar.gz && cd pidgin-osd-0.1.0
3. ./configure && make && make install
How to get bleeding edge sourcecode?
If you are crazy enough you can test the development version. When asked for a password, just hit enter. A directory named 'pidgin-osd' will be created.
svn co https://babelize.org/svn/pidgin-osd/trunk pidgin-osd
You can later update your sources by saying
svn update pidgin-osd
You can view the subversion repository at
https://babelize.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/?root=pidgin-osd
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