Callum Macdonald » dossy http://www.callum-macdonald.com Callum on life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:52:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pidgin character count plugin on Fedora http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/04/10/pidgin-character-count-plugin-on-fedora/ http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/04/10/pidgin-character-count-plugin-on-fedora/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:49:15 +0000 Callum http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/04/10/pidgin-character-count-plugin-on-fedora/ Continue reading →]]> If you’re a pidgin and Twitter user like myself, it’s hard to keep your tweets under 140 characters. Dossy created a character count plugin for this very purpose.

To install on Fedora (and possibly others) simply grab the .deb file Dossy kindly published here. Open the .deb in archive manager. Open the contained data.tar.gz file. Then drop the contained “convcharcount.la” and “convcharcount.so” files into your /usr/lib/pidgin/ directory. You’ll need to do this as root.

Now open Pidgin (restart is not required), Tools > Plugins, and tick the conv. input character count plugin. Bingo, it works like a charm for me on Fedora 8 with Pidgin 2.4.1. Thanks Dossy. :)

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