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Submitted by axxackall on Sun, 08/21/2005 - 16:51

I use Tkabber and Psi as jabber clients for awhile, both with ejabberd and jabberd2. Here is what I experience and what bothers me:
Psi can keep connections alive and well, no matter with or without the auto-away feature configured - it does npt disconnect untill either I ask for it or the server goes down.
However Tkabber disconnects each time I avoid to use it for few (perhaps 3) minutes.
Is it something I missed to configure in Tkabber?
Or it is just the way Tkabber works and it supports neither auto-away nor keep alive features?

Thank you.

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bug on autoaway or keep-alive misfeature

Submitted by badlop on Mon, 08/22/2005 - 14:38.
However Tkabber disconnects each time I avoid to use it for few (perhaps 3) minutes.

It shouldn't. I don't know of any option or 'feature' to disconnect after X time. It seems a bug somewhere.

  • If you have available the AutoAway feature in Tkabber, try to change the away time (1 min, 2, mins...) to see if that option is relevant.
  • If you are using HTTP-Poll to connect, check the options on Tkabber.
  • What Tkabber version are you using? Where did you get it?

Is it something I missed to configure in Tkabber?

I found nothing at all to configure on that subject.

Or it is just the way Tkabber works and it supports neither auto-away nor keep alive features?

It has autoaway if you install a required library. It doesn't have keep-alive. Tkabber just gets logged until you disconnect or the server crashes. Reasons for your problem:

  • Tkabber has a strange bug that nobody else has reported until now (quite strange).
  • Tkabber-AutoAway do not work properly due to a bug and it disconnects/crashes. Try to modify the autoaway time.
  • Your server/network requires autoaway, and Tkabber does not support it.

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Tkabber supports keepalive!

Submitted by badlop on Tue, 08/23/2005 - 07:48.
It seems Tkabber can send keepalive messages to the server. On the documentation it says that you can add this to your $HOME/.tkabber/config.tcl 
# periodically send empty string to server

set keep_alive           1
set keep_alive_interval 10
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