SessionSave Pidgin (aka Gaim) plugin

Latest version: 2.0.1

Info

This is a plugin for Gaim, an open source cross-platform IM client. For more information, visit their website at http://gaim.sourceforge.net.

SessionSave will remember what conversation windows you had open the last time you used Gaim, and re-open them for you when you sign on. This is especially useful for those rare (ahem) times when Gaim crashes.

News

Sun May 27 2007: 2.0.1 - Pidgin compatible
This release works with pidgin 2.0.1.
Sat Feb 10 2007: 2.0.0.4 - Bug fixes
Conversations are now only restored once per account (previously, the session would restore on each signon). The text for a conversation restore is no longer logged.
Fri Jan 5 2007: 2.0.0.3 - Now remembers messages
The content of the conversation is now saved as well. It's totally hacky, so there's probably some issues. If you find any problems, let me know.
Fri Jan 5 2007: 2.0.0.2 - Now with prefs
I fixed up the loading code to use the Gaim prefs system rather than saving to a text file. The changes should be invisible.
Wed Jan 3 2007: 2.0.0.1 - It begins!
SessionSave is born, after a suggestion by Parisa.

Download 'em!

Version 2.0.1:

Source code: sessionsave-2.0.1.tar.gz
Windows self-extractor: sessionsave-2.0.1.exe

Version 2.0.0.4:

Source code: sessionsave-2.0.0.4.tar.gz
Windows self-extractor: sessionsave-2.0.0.4.exe
Linux .so file (Ubuntu 6.10): sessionsave.so - I make no guarantees this will work and not set your computer on fire, but if you don't feel like building gaim from source, you can use this. Copy it to gaim's plugin directory.

Install Instructions from Source

Follow these steps to install SessionSave from source. If you don't want to install from source, download and run the self-installer for your platform (Windows or Linux).

First, you'll need to have compiled Gaim from the source. Also, make sure you have the latest version of Gaim. Untar the package and cd to the directory it creates:

tar xzvf sessionsave-VERSION.tar.gz
cd sessionsave-VERSION

Edit the Makefile and change the following line

GAIM_SRCDIR=/usr/src/gaim-VERSION/

To the path to your gaim source directory (wherever you compiled gaim). Run make:

make

SessionSave will compile and install to the Gaim plugin directory. That's it!

Contact

Please send bug reports, questions, comments, suggestions, thoughts, ideas, praise, love letters, death threats, etc to Mattperry (guy@remove-before-sending.fscked.org).

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