Building, installing and using Finch on Ubuntu

[David Mohr]

On 9/12/07, Bill Fassler <bill.fassler at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oops sorry Ethan, I meant to send this to the dev addy.
>
> Bill Fassler <bill.fassler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bill Fassler <bill.fassler at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Building, installing and using Finch on Ubuntu
> To: Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im>
>
>  No problem then I suppose.  I have both a console and a terminal built on
> the embedded board I am trying to eventually get this to work on and I
> apologize for my ignorance.
>
> Since I finally got through the first pass on all the cross compilations and
> got my first uClinux Finch binary I wanted to see how it was suppose to work
> on a regular Linux distribution.
>
> I guess I am an old fart because I have never gotten into instant messeging
> and this whole experience is new to me.  I created a yahoo IM ID and tested
> my account by chatting a little bit in windows using Yahoo.  Then using my
> Ubuntu Finch I set up an account to use Yahoo with my ID/password and ugh
> nothing.  I only have 2 or 3 buddies in my list (who might be off-line) but
> shouldn't I see something? Do I need to create a .gntrc file or use a
> different terminal as Ethan suggests to get anything to work?

A trick I used to do is to use AIM, where you can add yourself to the
buddy list. That way you know someone will be online :-).

~David

> Bill
>
>
> Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
>  Bill Fassler spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I am trying to use Finch (a regular version on a Ubuntu box). I
> > untarred a fresh untouched tarball and compiled and built with typical
> > commands: (I.E. ./configure --disable-gtkui; make; make install). I
> > see the finch binary in /usr/local/bin as I expect, but can't seem to
> > launch it any way other than from a terminal and then the ncurses
> > interface pops up (inside the terminal) and I can use the tab key to
> > navigate a little, but all the functionality I should have as
> > described on your "how to use finch" page doesn't seem to be there.
> > For one example F10 pulls down the terminal menu and not Finch's menu
> > (obviously a binding issue). I can use ALT-A to bring up the accounts
> > and I can select a protocol, but then nothing seems to happen. I can't
> > seem to figure out how to use it following the directions. I assume
> > things might work better if I could get it to launch independently and
> > not nested inside a terminal. Can anyone tell me what I am doing
> > wrong?
>
> The whole *point* of Finch is that it runs inside a terminal. Your
> terminal should have some way to tell it not to trap keys, but to pass
> them to the application; another option is selecting a terminal which
> does not have this ignorant flaw. (I believe most of us would
> recommend rxvt-unicode.)
>
> Ethan
>
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