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 to block contacts on Empathy? [duplicate]
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How do I block people with Empathy
I tried to block MSN contacts on Empathy through "Edit > Blocked contacts", but nothing happens. It's a bug? There is a way to block ...
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Empathy Facebook Voicechat
I'm unable to voicechat in my facebook account in Empathy Internet Messaging
All I can do is I can do voice chat with my friends in gmail acoounts and in yahoo acounts but not in Facebook account
Can ...
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Empathy Google Talk with Non Google Account
Updated I use a live/hotmail account for my google services including google chat.
In previous versions of empathy, I would specify the domain on my google talk account to talk.google.com and then it ...
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empathy callto link handler
Is it possible to install an callto protocol handler that opens empathy (with SIP)?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with empathy 3.4.1, telepathy-sofiasip 0.7.1-2 and firefox 12.
I know how to add an item to ...
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How do I block people with Empathy
I'm trying to block a user from contacting me, but can't seem to do this from the Empathy interface. How do I block contacts?
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Two notifications for empathy and no notification preferences tab?
I am getting an issue with empathy.
When I am in a chat every time I send a message I get a standard gnome-shell notification echoing what I just set, the same applies for when a message is received.
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Empathy: Account Manager Error “Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)”
I run Ubuntu Ocelotin italian language and since a week I get a strange error by Empathy:
"Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)"
It seems that telepathy cannot contact the account ...
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Are there any lenses for empathy or pidgin?
I see gwibber lenses, is there anything for empathy or pidgin? For search my contacts, open tab chat or others..
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How do I get Empathy to open all new IMs in the IM window?
I should note that I'm opting to use Gnome Shell. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.
Here's my issue: When I get a new IM, it shows up in the notification area, but not in my IM window. I have to go to the ...
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How can I remove Empathy, and integrate Pidgin?
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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How to remove the Bubble Notification of Empathy from the Notification Area [closed]
There is a Bubble notification that appears in the notification area apart from the Mail Icon Message. I only want one notification icon telling me when a new message has arrived.
Right now as seen ...
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Empathy not connecting to openfire
I have Openfire installed on a local network and am trying to connect to it with empathy with the username/password created and empathy keeping raising authentication failed error. Using pidgin, am ...
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How to remove the mail/IM icon from the notification area? [duplicate]
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How do I remove that envelope icon from the menu bar?
How do I remove the mail/IM icon (envelope) from the notification area in Ubuntu 12.04? I'm not using the IM client ...
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how to enable xmpp chat in empathy
since nimbuzz have no linux version I am using pidgin to chat with nimbuzz friends .
pidgin can handle nimbuzz via xmpp protocol
but now I want to do it via empathy .How to do it ,
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I tried ...
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Empathy does not allow WLM accounts after upgrade to ubuntu 12.04
AFter upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, all my accounts previously configured in Empathy were deleted. Then, I tried t set them up again, but I see that the WLM accounts are not an option in the account types ...
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Using Pidgin with Empathy themes?
Empathy's "Ubuntu" Theme Is quite attractive.
Is there any way of using empathy themes on pidgin(specifically the Ubuntu Theme)?
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Jabber chat room user list missing?
I'm using Empathy to join a Jabber chat room. I have this setup on two Ubuntu machines, both running 12.04. To the right of the chat window should be a list of all the users currently in the chat ...
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Can't copy/paste contents on Empathy
I'm using Empathy to connect to my chat accounts, but I'm unable to select and copy text with Ctrl+C shortcut. I can copy selected text if I press left mouse button and select "Copy".
This problem is ...
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Connecting Empathy to Windows Live
I've just upgraded to 12.04 (coming from 11.10). In 11.10 Windows Live accounts worked perfectly (I suppose Empathy was 3.2.*), but now in 12.04, it's 3.4.1 and the account I had was lost. It doesn't ...
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Empathy crashes when transferring file to Google contact in 12.04 [closed]
I upgraded to 12.04 after the beta 2 release and now my system is fully up to date. My problem is whenever I am trying to send a file to some Google contact through empathy file transfer, it is ...
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Is there a way I can use Empathy to chat with a random person off the Internet?
I am new and disabled and would like to meet new friends. I am a complete newbie and I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Any help would be appreciated.
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Error starting Empathy “Error contacting the account manager” [closed]
I was using Empathy earlier, however it crashed. When I tried to start it up again, I received an error about not being able to connect to the account manager.
The terminal posts the following ...
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Empathy don't connect to gtalk
I upgrade from Ubuntu Desktop 64bit 11.10 to 12.04 and Empathy don't connect.
I try both way, restoring my Empathy configuration file with
cp backup/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg ...
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How to make Empathy run on startup?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I'd like Empathy to connect when I login to my computer.
I know I can browse using the Startup Applications tool (although the add/browse dialogue is still useless in GNOME ...
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Ability of linking contacts in Empathy 3.4 is missing
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04, with Empathy 3.4. I discovered that ability of linking contacts from different networks is missing from context menu. Is it bug or I need to install something?
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How do I install Adium themes in Empathy?
I had used the Adium themes in empathy in Ubuntu 11.04 but the same did not work for 11.10. Is there any workaround to enable the themes for empathy in 11.10
Thanks in advance
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How can I change my display name, and avatar in Empathy?
How can I change both my display name, and avatar in Empathy Instant Messenger?
I appreciate any help.
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How do I disable the notification “X has left the conversation”
When I close the active conversation window, my contact receives a notification that I
"left the conversation". Is there a setting that prevents displaying this message?
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empathy and pidgin cannot connect to AIM
I'm on 11.10 and after an update last week I can no longer connect to AIM with Empathy or Pidgin. I can connect with Kopete so I know it's not the AIM account. I've tried deselecting "use clientLogin" ...
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Delete message from jabber history in Empathy 3.2
I accidentially sent a message with private information to a friend of mine on Jabber (using Empathy 3.2).
I now want to delete this message from the history, but I cannot find where Empathy 3.2 ...
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How can I automatically set my status to Available when I log in?
This is the first thing I do after logging in:
How can I make it happen automatically?
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Empathy not able to sign into a SIP Account
I am running a Ubuntu 10.04 and trying to configure three SIP accounts on my machine. Following is the status of 3 accounts
iptel.org - I can sign in - it shows I am online, but I am unable to make ...
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Empathy minimizing automatically
I am able to login into empathy, but the thing is whenever i am clicking over it from the right top task bar so that I could open it and see who all are online, it opens just for a second and ...
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Can't see incoming messages in Empathy and Skype
I have stalled Skype for empathy but only outgoing messages work. When I try to chat to friends I can't see their messages.
How do I fix this?
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Empathy's status settings greyed out, but is Empathy running? [closed]
When I log into Ubuntu 11.10, My messaging menu shows a little arrow to the left of "Chat" but greyed out statuses. My understanding is that the little arrow means that the application is running.
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Why can't I link my Skype contacts with the rest in Empathy?
I'm using Skype in Empathy thanks to telepathy-haze and pidgin-skype. I've also added MSN, Jabber (Gtalk), and Facebook. When I link contacts from MSN, Gtalk, and Facebook, there's no problem, but if ...
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Empathy not connecting on school's public wifi
Empathy just sits trying to connect to my facebook and Google Talk accounts on my school's public wifi.
On the public wifi there is a proxy I have to connect to and register with (just type in an ...
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Is there a way to access the empathy roster via the user-menu?
I am new to gnome shell (just upgraded my system from ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10 and manually installed gnome-shell) and I am looking for an efficient way to access the empathy roster.
The user-menu has an ...
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Empathy auto accept group chat invite
I'm using empathy 2.34.0 as chat client for account hosted on Google app (server talk.google.com). I'm happy with the features that empathy provides and integration with Google chat, however for group ...
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Skype autostart with Empathy in Ubuntu [closed]
I'm using the Empathy and installed the 'pidgin-skype' package to use Skype in Empathy. It's work just perfect, but when I open the Empathy it doesn't start skype automatically.
In settings it's ...
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Empathy error showing received messages multiple times
I like using Empathy in Ubuntu for combining multiple accounts. Lately I keep getting the following error: It happens often that I receive a message 2,3,4 times. For example
Hi
HI
HI
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Can I install 12.04 packages on 11.10?
I'm running 11.10 and am trying to apply the fix to this bug in Empathy, shown at the very bottom. There is an updated package for the offending component available in the Precise repository, and ...
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What are the settings to allow me to access the Ubuntu IRC from empathy?
I want to chat with other Ubuntu-ers but I'm lost on how to do this properly. Do I have to sign up anywhere? Is there only one Ubuntu channel?
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How to backup and restore Empathy accounts and password in Ubuntu 12.04?
There is no documentation on how to backup and then restore your empathy accounts.
The other thread is very vague and does not help
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Problems Connecting MSN with empathy
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 ...
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How do I install glib?
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 >= ...
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How to approve a contact in Empathy?
I have a tiny but important problem. Someone has added me to their contact list on MSN, this shows up with a notification. The problem is that I can't find out how to approve the invitation. How can I ...
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Empathy vs sametime [closed]
is it possible to use sametime protocol in the Empathy?
I tired to select it from protocol list but there is nothing to configure (unable to define server, username password )
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Empathy doesn't always receive first wlm message [closed]
Does anyone knows why sometimes I don't get the first message of a conversation with Empathy when using a wlm account?
Example using the wlm web messenger:
Someone: Hi
Someone: How are you?
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Desktop sharing in Empathy in 11.04 disabled when chatting with Empathy in 10.04? [closed]
A friend of mine has been using Ubuntu 10.04. Because he has some newer hardware, I recommended that he upgrade from 10.04 to 11.04, which fixes some issues. I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04, and we ...
