Really brilliant! Thanks a lot. I hope the Pidgim team updates at least the INSTALL file so people know what is needed to get the program fully working. :-) Mauro <div>On 5/14/07, sktsee <<a href="mailto:sktsee@tulsaconnect.com">sktsee@tulsaconnect.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, 13 May 2007 22:38:34 +0200, Mauro Grauso wrote: > Ah great. that's the piece of information I was after. Now, I'm just > curious, where did you find it? I mean it's not documented and there's > no forum or active mailing list for Pidgin. Have you looked at the > sources? It's the only thing I didn't look because of lack of time. > > thanks. > Mauro Yeah, it took a bit of sleuthing to figure out what was needed by the configure script to enable compile support for the idle time detection. Basically, I started with the "configure --help" output, which said in the description for the "--disable-screensaver" option that the xscreensaver extension was used to detect idleness. So I did a recursive grep for any mention of xscreensaver in any files in the directory (grep -irl xscreensaver *). That came up with nine files, two of which had "idle" in their filenames (libpurple/idle.c and pidgin/gtkidle.c). Figuring that gtkidle.c was the best bet to find what I need, I opened it and found the reference to the header file <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>. I didn't have this header file on my system, so I ran a search using apt-file (apt-file search scrnsaver.h). It came back with x11proto-scrnsaver-dev package as the result. Installed that package and re-ran ./configure. It still wouldn't enable the xscreensaver extension, so I delved into the config.log file to see what errors, if any, were being produced. Wading through config.log I found the section where the configure script tested for the "XScreenSaverRegister" function and why the test was failing. It tests two libraries, libXext (-lXext) and libXss (-lXss), to see if either has that function. Apparently, if the configure script finds this function in either of those libraries, then the neccessary requirement to enable the xscreensaver extension compile option is met. So I checked to see if I had the dev packages for libXext and libXss installed on my system. I already had libxext-dev installed but not libxss-dev. So, I installed libxss-dev and re-ran ./configure and it finally worked! -- sktsee -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>