Psi is a cross-platform (Qt) Jabber client that has more features than most. You can use it with the Jabber access port of psyced.

• Platforms supported:
  • 32bit Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • GNU/Linux

PSI on USB

This article covers how to run Psi on a USB device(or just from one directory)...

Note:: This is a per use fix, and seems similar to anything John Haller would make, only easier to understand...

WHY?

Because Psi doesn't run from one standalone directory, Presenting a portability issue. Though there is an Admin on the forums that says it does, I've had experiences myself that say otherwise. That and a few other users that have had the same issue come up, we couldn't be crazy can we?

• See thread : http://psi-im.org/forum/thread/1807
  • post : http://forum.psi-im.org/post/11641
• Did this piss you off John? Huh? Huh? Did it? I hope so! That was for the recent release of Gaim portable(you know, the one that doesn't work, and all those relases that need your warped mind to figure out how to migrate settings to and from.

Key Issues

• the app and data are not in the same directory tree...
• manually setting this would be too much of a PITA and take a significant portion of time to set up on random machines...
• If the use on other machines is temporary, then the solution needs to not impose itself permanently on that machine

Solution

• batch file to set a data path
• copy the data directory contents to the newly set data path
• make sure it is relative
  • Done
• Make it easy for the average user to use

Batch file

Here is what needs to be in the batch file You should probably change the lines to make it easy to find that data dir What would I know anyway, I'm only the guy writting this thing::only guy writting this thing

@set PSIDATADIR=PsiData

@start psi\psi.exe

Datadir copy

If you run Psi Locally, you should be able to find it in

• %UserProfile%\PsiData\ [NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003] or
• %UserProfile%\Psi\PsiData\ [95, 98 and Me]

If you use *nix, then ~/.psi/

• If you don't know what *nix is, don't worry, it doesn't apply to you...

Now that you know where your local data is, you can just copy it into your datapath set by the batch file.

Easy to use

Yes?

Credit

• Myself because I had to be the first person to write this
• The guys on the forums for being badass enough to provide the data needed to make this article
• Shonen Jump
• Krang : For Showing us how to not take over the world
• The Juggernaut & My Way Productions

Comments?

Ninjas > Pirates

External Links

• http://psi-im.org/wiki/Configuration_File [I have nothing to say]
• http://psi-im.org/forum/thread/1807 [Look at post #2]
• http://psi-im.org/ [Home of Psi-IM, download it. DO IT NOW! RUN! GET TO THE CHOPPA!]