Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about installing, configuring and working with Psi+ under various operating systems.

Answer 1: Step by step Psi/Psi+ setup guide with screenshots here/resource unavailable/.

Answer 2: The installer archive contains all the necessary files for Psi+, but the zip archive – *ONLY* contains the psi-plus.exe file.

Answer 3: To display clients icons in the roster, do the following:

• Update Psi+ to the current version
• Download fingerprint.jisp and copy it to the Psi+/iconsets/clients directory
• Enable the specified option in the roster settings and choose the roster iconset in appearance settings

Answer 4: To get Psi+ working in portable mode, you have several options:

1. Copy a folder Psi+ from %APPDATA% to folder that contains psi-plus.exe
2. Rename psi-plus.exe to psi-plus-portable.exe using the script make-psi-plus-portable.bat directly in the working Psi+ folder and then run psi-plus-portable.exe.

Answer 5: Yes, using Qt 4.5.0 after you exit the application process remains “hanging”. It's recommended that to upgrade your Qt version to 4.5.1 or above.

Answer 6: Instructions for building Psi+ under MS Windows (32 bit) are here.

Answer 7: The latest version of the Russian localization for Psi/Psi+ is here.

Answer 8: Animated smileys can be used in a test version of Psi+ WebKit. In other Psi+ versions, as well as in the Psi official version, animation support is not implemented.

First of all your music player must support one of these technologies as follows:

• MPRIS (v.1 or v.2)
• Winamp API
• AIMP API

If it doesn't supports then:

Answer 9.1: Instructions for configuring publications listen tracks from foobar2000 in Psi+ are here .

Answer 9.2: Instructions for Songbird (by KukuRuzo).

Answer 9.3: For qomp you can enable tunetofile plugin and set path to tune file in player settings

Answer 9.4: If your music player supports the necessary features, and there is no broadcast, open the Psi+ Settings → entry Status → there PEP tab and activate the desired music controller

Answer 10: For example:

• Download the Plugins from here
• Extract for example the screenshotplugin.dll to the Psi+ folder (for example, C:/Program Files/Psi+/Plugins)
• Run the Psi+ → Open the application Options → Choose a Plugins entry → Screenshot Plugin → And turn on the check mark in front of the name of the plugin → Press Apply button → Restart the Psi+
• Enjoy ;)

Answer 11: To activate the spell checker you should:

For official builds:

• Download and install Psi+ version with Aspell support
• Download aspell-15.dll and the Russian-English Dictionary from here , unzip the archive into the Psi+ directory
• Checkmark [v] Check spelling in Misc. tab of application Options

For personal builds by KukuRuzo:

• Download and install Psi+ version with Hunspell support
• Download myspell dictionaries for example from here (You need to download only *.dic and *.aff files)
• Copy the downloaded files into myspell/dicts directory (for example C:\Prorgam Files (x86)\Psi-plus-qt5\myspell\dicts)
• Checkmark [v] Check spelling in Misc. tab of application Options

Answer 12: Create a text file mucskipautojoin.txt in the directory that contains PsiData for the current Psi+ profile and write the JIDs in it of the conferences which should be skipped for autojoining by Psi+.

Answer 13: The Psi+ can work with captcha. To do this you must disable the following option:

Answer 14: To do this you need to update the Qt library. Make it possible to add /etc/apt/sources.list the following lines:

deb http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/kde43/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/kde43/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Then save the file and execute the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -t lenny-backports install libqt4-core

To prevent the automatic update from these repositories you need to add to /etc/apt/preferences the following lines:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600

Answer: We are recommended to use the Extended Options Plugin and at Conference tab you must to enable the similar option (See the screenshot below):

ATTENTION!!! This information is obsolete but can help in some extraordinary cases!

Answer: Usually sufficient default account settings. If you have previously configured your account with specified host (For example, host:talk.google.com), you must delete the HOST entry and reconnect to the Google server.

This way:

Or this way:

Answer: Use the /S switch for silent install and /D=dir for select installation directory. These options are case sensitive. Psi+ uses the NSIS installer from Nullsoft.