On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt Harrison<iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul >> Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt >> > Harrison<iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> >> >> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo >> >> Messenger. >> >> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. >> >> >> >> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately >> >> I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. >> >> >> >> I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to >> >> connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it >> >> seems they have been retired from portage. >> >> >> >> Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to >> >> VNC >> >> into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> Matt >> > >> > I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works >> > fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo >> > (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to >> > adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. >> > Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. >> > >> > Kopete should work, too. It even does video. >> >> I will also add that you can use the web-based version of yahoo >> messenger and avoid software: http://webmessenger.yahoo.com >> > > Thanks for the reply, > > Thats very interesting, I wasn't aware of the web based messenger and I will > investigate it.
I just thought of a couple more :) If full-screen flash isn't your thing (or your PC can't handle it), you can use the Yahoo Mobile website which has (or at least used to have) a fully HTML web-based messenger. http://m.yahoo.com Also, I am pretty sure you can talk to Yahoo messenger contacts via MSN Messenger, so you can also check out any MSN-compatible apps such as aMSN.
