ports/129350: purple-remote can't communicate with Pidgin

Lars Stokholm lars.stokholm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 22:32:40 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  <marcus at 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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