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[kopete] Change away message via script? / game browser integration

spirit

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Friday, January 27th 2006, 5:51pm

[kopete] Change away message via script? / game browser integration

Does anyone in here know of a method to make xqf [1] report the quake 3 server one is currently playing on to kopete?

I'd like to have kopete change my away message to something like : "<nickname> is currently playing <game> on server <ip:port>".

xqf can be configured to place a launch-info file in ~/.qf/LaunchInfo.txt that contains all the Info i want Kopete to show and it can run a program (~./qf/PreLaunch) before starting the game, so my question boils down to : "Is there any way to make kopete show this information as my away message?" or "How do i access the away messages via a script/program?"

[1] http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/
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Sunday, January 29th 2006, 10:31am

RE: [kopete] Change away message via script? / game browser integration

You can use dcop for changing away messages. For example, a command like this should work:

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dcop kopete default setAway "A away message" true

You can use variables to make a non-static message.

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Thursday, February 2nd 2006, 9:36pm

RE: [kopete] Change away message via script? / game browser integration

thanks a lot for the tip on using dcop.

the following script does the trick for me. hope it helps somebody.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# make kopete show the game and server you are currently playing on
# when starting a game from XQF
#
# copy this file to ~/.qf/PreLaunch, chmod+x and make sure that XQF creates the launchinfo file and
# executes this file as prelaunch script (XQF -> preferences -> gereneral -> ...when launching a game )

##### settings #####

YOURNAME="spirit"
YOURNICK="dichtfux"

##### get info #####
XQFHOME="$HOME/.qf"
INFOFILE="$XQFHOME/LaunchInfo.txt"

if [ ! -r $INFOFILE ]; then
	echo "infofile not found at $INFOFILE. using default message."
	STATUS="$YOURNAME is playing online games. his nick is $YOURNICK."
else
	GAME=$(grep ^GameType $INFOFILE | sed s/GameType//)
	MOD=$(grep ^ServerMod $INFOFILE | sed s/ServerMod//)
	SRVADR=$(grep ^ServerAddr $INFOFILE | sed s/ServerAddr//)
	SRVNAME=$(grep ^ServerName $INFOFILE | sed s/ServerName//)
	STATUS="$YOURNAME is playing $GAME $MOD on a server named $SRVNAME ($SRVADR ). \
                his nickname is currently $YOURNICK."
fi

##### show info #####


dcop kopete KopeteIface setAway "$STATUS"
echo "set kopete away message to : \"$STATUS\""
spirit