Two Empathy IM Tricks

 

Debian Squeeze has two problems with default configuration of Empathy IM.

1- It doesn't allow autoconnect on start of application. Each time, you need to disable and enable your account to be able to connect to the chat server. By using the following technique, you can resolve this issue:

Open gconf-editior. In apps/empathy, untick 'use_conn'. That's it!

2- It doesn't support several chat protocols by default. To add more, just install telepathy-butterfly and telepathy-haze using the following command:

sudo aptitude install telepathy-butterfly telepathy-haze

Dark background for ViM in xterminal

vim has a white background in x-terminals. By adding the following line to ~/.vimrc, you can change it to black:

highlight Normal ctermbg=Black ctermfg=White