[Linphone-users] Configuring LinPhone configured, in spite of itself

[Stan Goodman]

LinPhone is installed on an openSuSE v11.4 laptop machine.

After going through the configuration, and then going on to other tasks, 
I noticedd that LP was raising a dialog box from time to time, and then 
closing it again after a few seconds. It wanted me to do two things:

1) It gave the correct <username> (without the domain name), and told me 
to expand it to <username>@<domain>, where it gave the correct <domain>. 
It doesn't surprise me that I didn't do that when I went through the 
configuration process, because in the usual contexts, "username" means 
only the part to the left of the @. But since the program already knew 
both parts,  I wonder why it couldn't have corrected the omission 
itself.

2) Much worse, it also required that I fill in the password. I am 
absolutely certain that I had already done that, but of course I 
attempted to do it again. Evidently, I am not as nimble as LinPhone 
expects its users to be, because the box disappears before I can do this 
simple chore. I have not been a ble to find a place in the preferences 
where I can supply the password without playing the nimb leness game. 
There must be such a place; where is it?

When I run linphone, its GUI appears, after a message telling me that it 
is already running, so I understand that it is lurking minimized waiting 
for a call. There is no icon on the desktop (i.e. on the Panel) which 
suggests how I might un-minimize the program, but there must be such a 
procedure. Where is it?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel