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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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mpd-like chat daemon

Just randomly googled and came across this GSoC project:-

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC201 … eLibpurple

Cool stuff. If this pans out we could just do /etc/rc.d/purple start and have all the configured chats connected. Need to restart X? No problem, just reconnect to the still running daemon. Need to dump X altogether? Just fire up finch .

Only worry is that communication seems to be done using dbus, I believe to authenticate that between different users would be more than a bit complex. Similarly to mpd the solution would probably to have the daemon run as its own user....

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: mpd-like chat daemon

if i remember quassel can do that but the downside is that can only do irc

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: mpd-like chat daemon

Well yeah, libpurple basically connects to just about everything (except Skype) so that's the big deal for me I guess. You can't only do IRC nowadays, people are on jabber (or gtalk), on MSN....

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upsidaisium

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From: Vietnam

Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 263

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Re: mpd-like chat daemon

Then don't talk to those other people, ngoonee! (If only it were that easy... )

What about Minbif? If you keep your IRC program in a (GNU) screen session then you can start and stop X as you please; detach the screen session and then resume it afterwards. But, of course, this will only work for normal chatting. If you need video or voice chat then.. tough luck

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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: mpd-like chat daemon

I do it this way sometimes:
At home I chat via irssi + bitlbee. I start irssi in a screen session and when I go e.g. to the university and do something in the linux pool (thank god we have those)  I connect to my pc via ssh and go into that screen session, change my status back to available and here we go, was never offline and can connect from everywhere.