Gaim not playing nicely on my KDE desktop

[Jamon Camisso]

bob wrote:
> I'm using SIMPL Mepis with a KDE desktop.
> 
> The other day I was exploring around my system and came across Gaim.   I 
> clicked through to see what came up.    Several windows did.    I dismissed 
> them and went about my work.
> 
> Now whenever I startup my system these damned Gaim windows come up on startup.
> 
> To make matters worse I went into Gaim again to see if some preferences would 
> kill this insane behavior ... and now I'm getting 2 sets of windows  on 
> startup.

If you are using KDE, try using Kopete for messaging. It has support for 
all the protocols gaim supports, with the added bonus of being a QT 
application. Simply:

apt-get remove gaim
apt-get install kopete
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