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I've just installed Maverick, and while it seems to work so far, Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN account. I've verified that Pidgin can connect.
I've tried looking at the Empathy debug log, but all I see is:
Starting butterfly 0.5.14: telepathy-python 0.15.17, papyon 0.5.1
Failed to create Connection
Any suggestions as to what's going on here, and how to fix it?
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I opened Empathy, go to accounts (F4), it takes me to "Online Accounts" where I can choose between many account types, but there is no IRC. There is face, google, twitter....but no IRC.
Am I missing something?
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When I link contacts in empathy, facebook becomes the default account used in a new chat.
Is there a way to change the default account? I'd like to avoid using facebook whenever possible, and instead have different preferred accounts to use for different people.
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Is there a way to configure Empathy so that when a new IM arrives I can open it using a keyboard shortcut rather than having to click the envelope icon of the Indicator Applet?
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What steps do I need to follow if I want to use the Share Desktop feature with another user in Empathy?
I've already enabled the Remote Desktop option through System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop and checked the service for this task is up, so I can't get what else I'd need.
By the way, I've tried using this feature with contacts using Empathy too.
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I would like to know where Empathy stores all my information, so as to be able to back it up and re-use on a different Ubuntu machine.
So far I have found only the conversation logs in ~/.local/share/Empathy
Any idea where the rest is (account information, buddies, favorite rooms, etc?)
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I want to build the Empathy in Ubuntu 11.04.
When I follow the build process,
./autogen.sh
The shell said to me that
libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
testing autoconf2.50... not found.
testing autoconf... found 2.67
checking for automake >= 1.9...
testing automake-1.11... found 1.11.1
checking for libtool >= 1.5...
testing libtoolize... found 2.2.6b
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
testing glib-gettextize... not found.
***Error***: You must have glib-gettext >= 2.2.0 installed
to build Empathy. Download the appropriate package for
from your distribution or get the source tarball at
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.gz
But when I cannot find the way to install glib. What should I do
to install that in ubuntu 11?
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I recently discovered, through Ubuntu's empathy IM client, that exists a protocol that enables the user to talk with anyone on his actual local network. It seems empathy calls this service "People Nearby" and Windows "People Near Me".
After some research I discovered more information: it seems the "protocol" is called Avahi (or Bonjour/Salut(?) by Apple) and permits a user to connect to users, printers and files on the network.
My questions:
- Bonjour, Avahi, people nearby, people nearby... are these things different names for the same thing, i.e. to connect to "things" (users/printers/files) on the same network? Are these different implementations of Zeroconf?
- Which IM support this kind of protocol? AIM, Trillian and Empathy support it, am I right? Which of them are usable on a smartphone (Android)? I think Trillian does and WiChat too but only for iOS.
- Is there an Android app that implements a Bonjour's or Avahi's service for Instant Messaging?
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The title says it all.
I have enabled 2 step verification at my Google account. Unfortunately this causes Empathy to lose authorization after every reboot. Even though I authorize Empathy following the steps:
1) going to Google Account Management
2) clicking "Authorizing applications & sites"
3) using the "Generate new application-specific password" feature
4) adding that new password to Empathy
This all works fine the first time I do it. But after a reboot, Empathy doesn't feel authorized anymore, and I need to do it again. It's getting too much of a frustration. Is there a way to make Google remember Empathy's authorization?
Looking at Google's "Revoke" option, I am thinking the authorization should stay there.
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I am trying to connect to my Facebook account from Empathy on Ubuntu 13.04.
When setting up the account in Empathy everything looks OK, but then Empathy just shows the message:
Facebook account requires authorization
According to bug #1170832, this is due to a problem in the telepathy-gabble package which has been fixed in version 0.18.1.
However, I manually installed telepathy-gabble_0.18.1-1_amd64.deb from Launchpad and the problem persists. Has anyone else had any luck with this?
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I don't know if I am the only one with this bug, but I can't use my MSN account with a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 with Empathy. It used to work with my Arch Linux, but now with Ubuntu, it continuously tries to connect but nothing happens.
How can I solve this problem?
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When people start a new convo with me, all I see initially is that the message indicator is lit. This isn't quite obvious, so I'd like the new chat window to just pop up in my face. How can I do this?
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I want to add my Skype account to Empathy to chat with all my contacts from there. I tried the following to integrate Skype with Empathy on Ubuntu 13.04, using this tutorial from Ubuntuusers.
sudo apt-get install pidgin-skype- Restart empathy
- empathy-accounts
But in empathy-accounts, which loads very slow, I don't see Skype to select.
How can I integrate Skype with Empathy on Ubuntu 13.04?
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I don't like the Empathy chat client, and I want to use Pidgin instead, but I want to maintain the functionality Empathy has in the messaging menu.
How can I do this in the cleanest way possible?
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