Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
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How can I add other online accounts?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and I'd like to add other online account (like QQ, weibo) in empathy or pidgin. How can I ?
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Sorting Empathy 3.6.0 contacts by online status [closed]
Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, which uses Empathy 3.6. I've noticed that all of my contacts are now sorted alphabetically, rather than by their online status, and Empathy's preferences don't ...
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Why isn't Empathy notifications any longer accessible via HUD in 12.10?
In Ubuntu 12.04, if someone contacted me via Empathy, I could write their name and open a chat window via HUD. This seems to have been disabled. People appear in the notification dropdown menu, but if ...
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How can I manage Empathy (Online) accounts in Lubuntu 12.10?
I use empathy, but in Lubuntu Quantal, I cannot add/manage accounts...
Is there a workaround?
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How to place Empathy in Gnome 3's messaging bar?
For consistency between Skype and Empathy, I'd like to put Empathy into the bottom messaging bar in Gnome 3 (Gnome Shell, if you will). Is there a way to do this?
(I use Gnome 3.4, although answers ...
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Help with setting up AIM account
Can anyone help me configure my AIM account? I have Oneiric and I want to set up my AIM account with what I believe is a chat client (the envelope icon on the top right). It is called Empathy. \n
I ...
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Is there any way to show amount of missed Empathy messages in the launcher icon?
I use Empathy and I have a problem with notifications for non read messages.
Is there any way to show amount of missed messages at left panel icon, like Thunderbird, SkypeWrapper, .... and other ...
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How to setup proxychains correctly?
I am working from behind a proxy in a college, and I've been attempting to configure proxychains to work for me, but i'm unable to.
I added an HTTP proxy in the proxychains.conf file, and added ...
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Empathy 3.6.0 requires reauthorisation to Windows Live on every reboot [duplicate]
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There’s an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?
I've been testing Ubuntu 12.10 beta2 and the only problem I've faced has been that with Windows ...
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Whats the name of the dropdown panel with the IM status?
So I'm trying to work out whats the name of the drop down panel in Ubuntu, the one that lets you set your IM status (online, offline, invisible etc etc).
I was on 12.04 and replaced Empathy with ...
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Formating text in Empathy chat
I love the look of Empathy so much more than Pidgin and would really like to use it as my main chat client but I can't seem to find a way to format text.
It does not appear to be a feature of the ...
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Empathy Sign-In automatically
When I start my machine the empathy starts unavailable until I press on the chat Icon at the upper right edge of the screen and set it as available
How can empathy start automatically after user ...
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Empathy sametime client id
I have been using Pidgin as an all-in-one IM client, but now as Empathy is the default app in Ubuntu I wanted to try it out.
I have a sametime account at an external company that is keen to restrict ...
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Is there a way to disable a specific account in Empathy?
With the new online accounts feature, all my accounts are now centralized. However, it seems there is no way to disable a chat account without disabling this account for everything else on the system.
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How can I stop the kde-telepathy UI from appearing under Unity when I use the messaging menu?
KDE Telepathy keeps getting in the way every time I try to use Empathy from the messaging menu. If I get a message, it opens in the KDE telepathy UI instead of in Empathy. This is rather frustrating ...
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Empathy cannot connect to WindowsLive accounts
As the titles says, i cannot connect to my WindowsLive Account in Empathy.
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The problem started when i installed Pidgin and then removed it.
I don't have ...
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How to create/edit/remove a group in Empathy
In 12.04 with Empathy 3.4.2.3 I can't seem to find the options for adding, removing or even editing a group. Are there still there or moved where?
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How to delete the history of a specific user in Empathy?
In Empathy, when you go to history, you have the option to delete all history and not for only a specific user.
How to delete the history of a specific user in Empathy people nearby account with ...
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How do I modify the empathy notifications to only show generic messages?
Is there a way to customize the popup notifications for Empathy in Ubuntu 12.04 so that instead of displaying the message contents and the sender, they only say "New Message" or something like that? I ...
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Empathy “Authentication failed” when connecting to Freenode
I have set up an IRC account in Empathy - the default server is, of course, Freenode. Empathy tries to connect and after a few moments reports, "Authentication failed".
I have tried with and without ...
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Online accounts: Failed to get the “token” request: Can not resolve proxy hostname ()
I had my computer with Ubuntu 12.04 a few months without a network card and now it has a new and functional empathy I try to connect on Facebook or posting photos or import Shotwell right through my ...
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Why does my empathy automatically close after loading contacts?
I'm using 12.04 with Gnome 3.4 and I'm having issues with empathy. Whenever I open empathy, it loads contact list and then vanishes. Its not in the panel, not in cairo dock, nowhere. When I try to ...
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How do I install Empathy MSN with XMPP in 12.04?
Just made a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 with virtualbox - and then installed all updates.
I was reading this - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/empathy-with-msn-xmpp-support-lands-in-ubuntu-12-04 ...
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Chatting with Empathy
I'd like to chat in some irc-channels hostet at freenode and i don't really know how. How do I create an account, how do I use it with Empathy?
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How to prevent another user from editing my display name in Empathy?
How can I prevent another user from editing my Empathy display name?
Since I am using shared computer, is there any solution?
I have administrative privileges.
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is there any hotkey for empathy?
is there any hotkey for empathy? plugins is also ok? I want open a message with shortcut just like press F4,I can do that in pidgin, but I prefer empathy
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What are the packages that are related to the empathy IM client?
As far as I know, Empathy has 2 related packages
empathy
telepathy-gabble
I want to know this so that I can update all these packages at one time to update empathy. Hope that gets rid of a few bugs ...
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Are there any other IM clients other than empathy and pidgin that support google talk?
As stated above. I need something similar to Google talk and it should be more stable than empathy. I dont like Pidgin, for it's interface makes it difficult to set statuses more often... Please let ...
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Empathy stop working
Im getting a little problem with empathy.
It suddenly stoped work, and im getting and error. I've sented the report, but till now, there's no resolution.
My system is updated. Im using Ubuntu ...
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How to configure Empathy notifications
Is there a way that I can receive a notification when a specific contact go online in Empathy?
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How do I make Ubuntu see my dial-up connection as a network connection?
I connect to the internet via a dial-up modem using Gnome PPP. This works great for browsing the web. However, some applications think that I am not connected to a network. Specifically, Evolution and ...
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Empathy fails to reconnect after awake from suspend
Problem: Whenever I suspend in 12.04 and awake my laptop, Empathy doesn't automatically reconnect and I always have to manually log off and log back in again. Any fixes for this bug?
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Empathy spell check Portuguese [closed]
The spell checker for Portuguese in Empathy doesn't work. When I mark Portuguese, Empathy unmarks it. Can someone solve this problem?
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How to flush the Empathy stored passwords?
I recently changed my Google Talk password, which causes Empathy to prompt for the new one. When I enter it, everything works fine.
However, after a reboot (or desktop environment reset) it will ...
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Settings are not being saved
Several weeks ago I updated a Facebook and Google accounts in Empathy to use per-application passwords. However, it forgets these passwords on each reboot and I have to enter them again. However, ...
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Anyone else having problems with Skype or Empathy and Pulse Audio?
I use both Skype and Google Chat (via Empathy) for video chatting and run into audio problems. The most typical situation is that a chat fails on Empathy, causing Empathy to crash, and it takes out ...
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Does Empathy use encryption when connecting to MSN?
I would like to know if Empathy Chat client uses encryption when communicating with MSN's servers. Is the password set over the internet in plain text? And the same question regarding the actual ...
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How to enlarge the Text Input field size in Empathy?
Is there any way to change the default text input field size in empathy windows? I mean, have two or three rows from default, instead of one...
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Why does my Empathy work with wifi but not with wvdial on 12.04?
I really need help for this issue . My empathy works well when I'm online using WIFI .. but it does't work when I'm online using wvdial. . in ubuntu 11.10, empathy works great.. any ideas to fix ...
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Why does NickServ on FreeNode IRC ask me to identify every day? [closed]
I am using Empathy as an IRC client.
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Can I use Empathy to connect to a remote Empathy session?
Is it possible for me to run an Empathy session on a computer in my home, and connect to it when on the road with my laptop, i.e. be able to see whatever people have said to my desktop session and ...
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How to reduce bubble-notification time in empathy?
empathy shows a bubble notification message on top right corner if a user comes online or goes offline (obviously we can change them from the preferences), but is there any way we can reduce the time ...
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Custom emoticons in Empathy
I'm trying to use Empathy instead of Kopete, I want to have access to my custom emoticons which I also used in Kopete. I installed them seperately and my contacts could receive them.
Is that kind of ...
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High CPU usage and several problem with “emapthy” and “e-addressbook-factory”
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 64bit installed on Dell mini 10.
And another machine with AMD phenom x4 CPU.
Both cases suffer from this symptom but with different degree.
After I right click on the contact ...
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Webcam does not work properly with empathy (12.04) [closed]
I can't start webcam chat with empathy, and I don't know why.
It worked on previous versions of Ubuntu (11.04 and 11.10), but now the webcam symbol only appear to a few contacts, all in google ...
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What is the configuration to do emesene/empathy recognize the notebook (Dell Inspiron 1545) webcam on Ubuntu 12.04?
What is the configuration to do emesene/empathy recognize the notebook (Dell Inspiron 1545) webcam on Ubuntu 12.04?
I like to use amsn but it isn't available to Ubuntu 12.04.
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Empathy authentication error to XMPP server
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a new machine and have been working on setting it up, but I've run into an interesting problem.
I have a custom XMPP server for work (I don't control it, but ...
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Empathy protocol mixup
I'm trying to use empathy messenger and I'm running into a spot of trouble. All but one of my contacts works, except for the person who's running a MSN Live with a @yahoo.com email address. I've tried ...
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How to remove pidgin notification bar [closed]
I recently tried Pidgin but decided I preferred Empathy. I uninstalled Pidgin (from the softtware center) but the icon still appears in the notification tab under the mail icon in ubuntu 12.04. I ...
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Empathy endless “loading” and higher CPU consumption
When I start empathy, or wake up my laptop, empathy usually has an endless loading indicator to the right of the status bar that only goes away when i set my state to offline and then online again. ...
