IM was one of the last graphical applications to go for me (I'm the author of the article). I had the same problem until I discovered bsflite (http://bsflite.s

IM was one of the last graphical applications to go for me (I'm the author of the article). I had the same problem until I discovered bsflite (http://bsflite.sourceforge.net/ http://bsflite.sourceforge.net/).