This question is slightly born out of laziness, but here goes anyway. I use the following apps on OSX: Skype Adium Linkinus On each, I have an automated status change that triggers after being idle for 30 or so. However, if I’m leaving for an extended period of time, I want to go ahead and … Read more
My chat transcripts are stored correctly, but when I open them up the other person’s chat messages are all wrapped with a span turning their message white. <message sender=”sip:user@foo.com” time=”2016-10-13T16:57:53-0700″ alias=””><div><span style=”color: ##000000; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12pt;”>FOO</span></div></message> This makes it so that when I try to view transcripts in the Adium transcript window I … Read more
Until a few days ago, I used Pidgin’s Google Talk plugin to talk to a few people (who are using adium, so still libpurple afaik) and it all worked fine, even though as far as I know gtalk has been moribund for almost a decade. Starting recently, however, it began taking forever to sign in, … Read more
I recently got locked out of my 10+ year old ICQ account for no good reason — the password just stopped working one day. Password recovery doesn’t work and I never gave them an email address anyway (at least that’s what I think, it’s been a while). When I start Adium, it asks for a … Read more
I feel a bit dumb asking this, but I’ve scoured the preferences and can’t find any option about how to disable the built-in notifications (ie, not growl) which are shown when a contact comes online. I’m using Mac OSX 10.6, latest version of Adium. Answer I think you are looking for Preferences –> Notifications (I … Read more
I see stuff like this now anytime someone changes their font or pastes a link. <im:html xmlns:im=’http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im’><xht:body xmlns:xht=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’><xht:p>for example, <xht:a href=’http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/office-jerk/id423593206?mt=8′>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/office-jerk/id423593206?mt=8</xht:a></xht:p></xht:body></im:html> Not sure why it’s not being parsed. Any ideas on how to fix this? UPDATE: Fixed in Adium 1.4.3rc1. See bug ticket. Answer This appears to an issue with OS X Lion iChat clients … Read more
What’s the meaning of this icon that appears over the adium icon? It looks like corners of a black square (or four triangles) spinning around a circle. What’s it trying to say? Answer Inside the Adium.app bundle, that icon (and two more like it, with the black square rotated) are called Connect1.png, Connect2.png, and Connect3.png. … Read more
Any way to make adium fetch the complete conversation history for each open window? Android and Gmail will both show you messages received while you were signed out, or signed into a different client. Adium only shows you messages received directly by the Adium client. Answer This is not possible. Google is using a custom … Read more
In Adium, I have a non-Google XMPP account. If I want to add an XMPP Contact that is @gmail.com, do I add them as an “XMPP” contact or a “GTalk” contact? It gives both options. edit: figured it out, you can add as an XMPP contact. Answer You can add as XMPP contact as Google … Read more
In Adium, When I go to the Chat Transcript Viewer window to search for stuff in the chat logs, it not always finds what I want. Is there an index file that I can delete to have it reindex the logs? Or does it use spotlight in the underpinnings? Where would said file be? Answer … Read more
