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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:03:34 +0100
From:      "Lars Stokholm" <lars.stokholm@gmail.com>
To:        marcus@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/129350: purple-remote can't communicate with Pidgin
Message-ID:  <a5eea06e0812011403q470294d9uf3bda49b4650d223@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812012134.mB1LYvZN036787@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200812012134.mB1LYvZN036787@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote:
> You need to run Pidgin and your purple-remote command inside the same D-Bus
> session.  It's easiest to do this by starting your X session with
> dbus-launch, but you could also do:
>
> dbus-launch xterm
>
> Then, from that xterm:
>
> pidgin&
>
> Then, from that same xterm:
>
> purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=test"

Thanks, and sorry about the non-problem report. :)

Cheers,
Lars



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