Customization

Figure 9. The options window

Licq

This is preferences that has to do with servers, security and other more technical things.

Servers

Here you can change the icq servers, normally you don't do this. And if you know that you need to do this a assume you understand how to do it :)

Security

This sections is for us paranoid people. A lot of this options is most to avoid spam (like Ignore new users, Ignore email pager aso), but others are there for integrity and safety reasons (auto secure..., Hide IP)

  • Ignore new users —Only accept messages from users on your contactlist.

  • Ignore mass messages —Don't accept messages that's not to you only.

  • Authorization required —Users must have your permission (only affect windows users).

  • Hide IP —Don't let users see your real IP address.

  • Ignore web panel —Ignore messages from web panel.

  • Ignore email pager —Ignore messages from email pager.

  • Enable web presence —Let people use the web to see if you are online.

  • Use autosecure for secure users —Keep secure channel between sessions.

Status

Options related to status and away messages.

Preset messages

This lets you make your own preset messages. Just select what kind of message you want to change, edit the text (and/or the name) and press 'Update' to save that message. Then it's just to select another one and start over.

Autostatus

Here you can set the status you want to have when you start up Gtk+Licq. You can also let Gtk+Licq automatically set it self away/NA/offline when you haven't touched the computer for a period of time. To do this you just set the desired time period in the fields in the 'Auto status' section, 0 means you don't want it to do this automatically. There is also a checkbox named 'Enable auto back'. This is if you want to automatically go back to the status you were in before you went auto away/NA/Offline when you touch the computer again.

Layout

Options related to the look and feel of Gtk+Licq.

Mainwindow

  • Launch applet —Controls if the applet should be launched when you start Gtk+Licq.

  • Let WM place the windows —or do you want the main window to appear where you left it?.

  • Show group menu —Do you want to have the group menu in the main window or not.

  • Select active user —Marks the selected user in the contactlist.

  • Single click on! —Changes the double-click to a single click (not only in the main window).

  • Number of network history lines —The number of rows to show in the network window.

Contactlist columns

This is how you want your contactlist to look, how many columns, what's shown in each column, title and sort order. To activate a column just check the Active checkbox. To set the format you cant type and select from the drop-down menu. Example: You want something like 'first-name - last-name' you set the format field to '%f - %l', how this it done (by typing or selecting from the menu) doesn't matter.

At the bottom there is a Column for quick search field, it determine what column that's going to be used when you are typing in the contact to select a user.

Fonts and icons

Here you can set what icon set you want to use, and where to find icon sets the user have installed. To change the icons to use it's just to select the icon-set in the option menu. If you have a own icon set installed somewhere you might have to change the 'User icondir' to make Gtk+Licq find it.

In the font section you can change the font for the contactlist and the font used to write/show messages. If you know the font string you can use that, but the preferred way is to use the font browser.

Colors

Here is the place to make all the colors look nice, can be quite useful to make things look good with your favorite theme. Just click on the browse button for the color you want to change, if you know the color RGB value you can use that direct.

Event

This is preferences related to sending and receiving.

Receiving

In the files section you can set the dir where you want incoming files to be stored by default.

Url viewer is the program thats used to view URLs when you press the 'View' button when you get a incoming URL. The terminal it which terminal program you prefer (xterm, eterm, gnometerm), this command must contain the flag to execute programs (Ex 'xterm -e')

Sending

Quoting width is used to make nice readable quotes, a thing to think about here is that the important thing is not how it looks for you but how it looks for the other user. So I recommend to adjust this value to fit default windows ICQ.

Spell checker options is to make the spellchecker do as you like, it uses the language field in the More info section in the information window. To set the default dictionary you can use the drop-down menu or you (if you know what you are doing) can enter the pspell dictionary name in the dictionary field. The preferred way is to use the drop-down menu.

You can also change the font that marks the word as incorrect, click on the 'Browse' button and select a nice font.

OnEvent

OnEvents is what happens when you get a incoming message, normally used to play a sound but might be used in some other way. If you are running licq on a remote machine it might be useful to use the 'beep instead of using command' option, or just because you find it more suitable.

Accept modes is if you want to use OnEvents even when you are in modes when you might not want to be disturbed.

If you want to customize this you can change the command field to do what ever you like, then you must probably adjust the parameters for the events to send the correct parameters to your command.