Send messages on Ctrl-Enter in GAIM 2.0.0beta4
"If you find a feature, it might confuse the user, so remove it." (c)
Okay, I do like the new interface in GAIM 2.0 beta, shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 'Edgy Eft'. It sucks a lot less than 1.x series did.
They Preferences dialog has been cleaned up considerably. A lot of rarely-used options were removed, so it's a lot easier to navigate and with luck you can get GAIM configured to your liking in under 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, the "Send message on Ctrl-Enter" setting that I use happened to be among the options that had to go. The FAQ does address the change but is not very helpful, and I had to spend some time researching. And here are direct instructions:
In your home dir, find or create a file named
Okay, I do like the new interface in GAIM 2.0 beta, shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 'Edgy Eft'. It sucks a lot less than 1.x series did.
They Preferences dialog has been cleaned up considerably. A lot of rarely-used options were removed, so it's a lot easier to navigate and with luck you can get GAIM configured to your liking in under 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, the "Send message on Ctrl-Enter" setting that I use happened to be among the options that had to go. The FAQ does address the change but is not very helpful, and I had to spend some time researching. And here are direct instructions:
In your home dir, find or create a file named
.gtkrc-2.0
and add the following lines:binding "my-message-bindings"Restart GAIM and enjoy.
{
bind "Return" { "insert-at-cursor" ("\n") }
bind "<ctrl>Return" { "message_send" () }
}
widget "*gaim_gtkconv_entry" binding "my-message-bindings"