[mythtv-users] Chat client for MythTV

[Josh Burks]

On 3/1/06, Jake <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:
> i wrote a plugin which did this as well and i used it for the good
> part of a year but when i moved i quit using it since we have multiple
> people here with gaim and the broadcasting to all the mythfrontends
> was kinda annoying.
>
> i do have a friend that uses it very successfully and as far as i know
> it has never crashed.  actually, my friend agreed to let me convert
> her desktop to linux just so that she could use this plugin.
>
> i initially wrote it in perl but switched to tcl when they
> discontinued the perl interface to gaim.
>
> i'll look for it and post the plugin to the list if there's any interest.

Why not just add a menu item that shells out to gaim, then use alt+tab
to switch between myth and gaim? Works great for me since I have a
wireless keyboard and I'm running KDE. Not sure if alt+tab works with
other window managers (except Gnome, I know that works).

Josh