Hi Dean, Am 27.05.2011 10:20, schrieb Dean Manners: > This is slightly off topic, so don't flame me too hard.. I sync my .purple/ > with Dropbox between a multi-monitor desktop and a laptop (windows7). This > works brilliantly for me, except for one gripe - buddy list positioning. The > buddy list lives at a different desktop location on these two machines. But > alas .purple/prefs.xml stores the x + y locations of the buddylist which > gets synced across - making a continual chore of resetting my preferred > buddy list position on starting Pidgin on either machine. > My first approach was to try and selectively sync (not sync) the prefs.xml > however Dropbox doesn't have such an exclude mechanism (yet). > > Anyone have ideas on trickery to stop Pidgin from storing x/y positions in > the blist pref of prefs.xml ?
Are you able to execute a script post-syncing? I think it should be quite easy to hack some perl / sed / VisualBasic / whatever script, which replaces that x/y positions with hard-coded values. Alternatively - if Dropbox doesn't allow scripts, you can modify the Startup-Link for Pidign to a batch-file first executing your script, secondly executing Pidgin. Not exactly a "nice" solution, but the only I can think of at the moment. Tough I'm not a Pidign-Plugin expert, maybe it's easier to write a plugin for such a thing (by e.g. getting the hostname and move the blist accordingly) Greetings -Sascha- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
