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Sign-on pop-up windows plugin for gaim

posted by ajf on 2003-04-24 at 01:38 pm

When somebody you know signs in, MSN Messenger pops up a window in the bottom-right corner of the screen to tell you. This plugin does the same thing for gaim (though it's not nearly as polished). You can get popup.c, build instructions are at the end of the gaim plugin how-to document. If you don't want to download the gaim source, I have compiled popup.so with gaim 0.61 on my Debian sid installation; I have no idea whether or not it can be used with other releases of gaim.

To install the plugin, put popup.so into your .gaim directory. Open up the Preferences window in gaim, and enable "Event Popups" on the Plugins page.