Re: [dev] mcabber (IM) and dwm?

From: Christoph Schied <Christoph.Schied_AT_uni-ulm.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:17:58 +0200

Hi!

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:59:20AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I'm using mcabber (http://mcabber.com/) as an IM client. I'm trying to
> get it to set it upso that on new messages the tag should be
> highlighted.

You will need to use a terminal which can set the X11 urgency hint when
a bell occurs in the terminal.
Using urxvt, you put the following in .Xdefaults:
 URxvt*urgentOnBell: true

Now you have to set mcabber to bell when a message arrives:
 set beep_on_message = 1
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