Questions tagged [empathy]
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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In Empathy IRC, how do I turn off the "joined" and "disconnected" messages?
In Empathy IRC, how do I turn off the "joined" and "disconnected" messages?
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How can I increase the text size in empathy chat windows?
The text that appears in empathy chat windows is quite small, even though I have set the font DPI to a large value in Preferences > Appearance. There does not appear to be any option to make this ...
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How do I join a channel on Freenode with Empathy?
I have empathy already installed but am not sure how to configure it to join the channel at http://www.ape-project.org. I do not have a password or login name yet to properly configure the channel ...
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How do I add a Windows Live account to Empathy?
I have a Windows Live account that I want to add to Empathy for messaging at work. I use my work email as my login. Nothing I try will get Empathy to connect. I have already removed telepathy ...
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Empathy chat notification
I am using Empathy IM Client for my google hosted mail domain on 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 desktops. I could able to chat from the google mail chat to Empathy and I have set empathy notification to get ...
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Can Empathy show what Rhythmbox track I'm listening to?
There was an MSN Messenger feature that would show what track you were currently listening to.
I'm using Rhythmbox as my music player.
Does Empathy have this feature?
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Why does Empathy say my connection is untrusted?
Today when I opened Empathy on Ubuntu 10.10 I got this unusual error box. I have never got this warning about an untrusted connection before.
What should I do? Is it a security risk if I continue ...
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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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Change Empathy's status icons
I installed a new icon theme but I want to use custom Empathy's status icons. I go to usr/share/empathy/hicolor & replace the icons there but it doesn't take effect ! Any help ?
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Empathy Chat Status Timeout
When I have my Empathy chat status set to "available", I'd like it to get set to "away" when I lock my computer of the screensaver kicks in. It seems that it stays set to "available" as I frequently ...
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Get Chat (Empathy) to pop up when people are talking to me
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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How to make Empathy to support Unicode names in Jabber?
If I use non-latin letters to name a Jabber contact, then in chat windows (and in contact list too after I restart) they are displayed as &#nnn; codes, not as letters I've written. Is this fixable?...
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How can I show the msn user picture in Empathy?
In Empathy, I can use the default image in google talk. But, with msn, the picture didn't show. How can I config it to make it right.
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How would I change the date format in Empathy?
How do I change the date format in Empathy 2.32.1? The default format is along the lines of:
28/12/10 19:11:06
which is huge in a chat winodw, I'm just after a simple time display if I can.
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Can I force empathy to open links in default browser?
Recently empathy has switched it's behavior for open links.
At some point it was that links pasted in the IM window where open with whatever program was associated to the mime type of the link's ...
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Is it possible to use empathy 2.32 on gnome 2.30?
I'm running Ubuntu Lucid which contains the Gnome 2.30. The thing is that, I'm really interested on using empathy 2.32, since it fixes a lot of bugs. However I don't want to upgrade the entire system ...
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How do I keep Empathy new message notifications after a disconnect? [closed]
When my internet connection goes down (which happens rather frequently here) and Empathy disconnects it drops notifications for new messages. So if I haven't opened the conversation window, I will ...
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Empathy Yahoo IM contact request spam
I'm getting maybe 20 friend requests from Yahoo IM everytime I start empathy (or my Internet goes up). Is there any way I can deal with the contact spam that doesn't involve me individually clicking ...
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Where are Empathy's contact-links stored?
I linked a bunch of contacts from MSN and Google Talk with the new empathy feature, Now I want to export this configuration to my desktop so i don't have to make the same changes again and again.
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Empathy chat limits the number of contacts displayed?
I'm using Empathy Chat with these accounts: GTalk & Facebook.
I just noticed now that from my GTalk friends only 6 appear online (including me) and in reality online are 14 (checked on GMail). ...
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How would one make empathy start when you turn on your computer or log into the computer
I am assuming that you need to put it in the startup applications, but i am not completely clear on how to do this.
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Can I use Skype through Empathy?
I'd prefer to have my communications centralised in Empathy. Is it possible to see my Skype contacts in Empathy and use voice, video or chat?
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Cannot log into chat
I have set up the chat and broadcast accounts: clicked on my user name on the panel and chose Chat accounts... and Broadcast accounts...
Now when I log into my system I cannot choose my status. In ...
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How do I kill Empathy and get it to show its main window?
Empathy shows up in my window picker list and it appears to be started according to the indicator applet and the process manager but I can't see any of its windows! People were sending me messages and ...
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Displaying the system time in Empathy status
Is it possible to display the current time in Empathy status, and perform simple manipulations, like
currentTime + 10minutes
I am using Lucid Lynx.
Thanks
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How do I make Empathy use the system proxy settings?
I want to use Empathy which is provided by default with Ubuntu 10.10. Unfortunately, it seems unable to take account of the proxy settings I applied system-wide.
On the contrary, other programs are ...
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How to make the Escape key close the chat window in Empathy?
In Pidgin we can select "Close conversations with the Escape key" in the preferences to close the chat window. Is there anything similar in Empathy?
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Schema org.gnome.Empathy not installed
Having recently installed Ubuntu on my iBook G4 (yup, power PC style), I click on all available buttons to see what happens (as Ubuntu is full of nice buttons, really).
Strangely, when clicking the ...
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Slow files transfers between pidgin/empathy and msn/wlm
I always get low transfer rate by sending or receiving files to msn/wlm. What can I do to solve that?
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What protocols support screen sharing on Empathy?
I am trying to follow the directions here but so far have not found a working protocol so I was wondering if anyone knew of a working protocol that works?
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How can I enable the "Share Desktop" feature in Empathy?
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 ...
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How to open new IM in Empathy (instead of having to clicking envelope)?
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 protocol does Empathy's "People Nearby" use, and what other chat programs use it?
What is the name of this protocol? Can I interact with people using other chat programs, like Pidgin on linux or Adium on OS X? Which programs recognize it, and which don't?
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How to prevent empathy from asking keyring password on every start?
How to prevent empathy from asking keyring password on every start? I think rhytmbox also asks for my keyring password.
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How do I keep Empathy from telling the other person when I am typing?
Sometimes I start typing a message to someone then stop, rethink it and change it or not send it at all. I don't want them to see "User is typing" messages. I see no option to disable this in Empathy.
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Current Exaile song in Empathy status
I switched to Exaile a while back, and the only thing I find lacking is the Empathy integration, if I may call it that. I wish to be able to set my IM status as the currently playing music track. ...
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How can I sync my contacts' information in Empathy with Evolution address book?
Evolution seems to be able to sync the contact list information in Pidgin with its address book. However, is it possible to keep contact information (i.e. display pic) in Empathy synchronized with ...
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Where are all my Empathy settings stored?
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/...
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Integrate Pidgin into the Me Menu, or help fix Empathy?
Is there any way to integrate pidgin into the Me Menu, or any other chat applet?
My main problem is that everyone I know uses AIM, which Empathy jokingly supports.
Or is there a way to fix Empathy ...
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Cannot connect to google talk using empathy/pidgin after upgrading
I can't seem to be able to connect to google talk using either pidgin or empathy after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install).
I do not know why... empathy just writes "Connecting ..." forever ...
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I keep getting this request for a Yahoo Messenger Buddy on empathy same person every time I log in?
I am not sure this belongs here, if not tell me and I will delete this question, but I was wondering could this be a bug with Yahoo not getting the denial from empathy?
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Disabling empathy balloon
How can I disable empathy's notification balloon that shows up when someone sends me a message?
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empathy with webcam
When empathy will have camera support? and I have problem to change files with it too.
after 11.04 the next topic of canonical have to be to improve the empathy. the program is waek yet.
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How can I save a video conversation in Empathy?
I'm chatting with a friend and I'd like to save the video to see the conversation again later. How can I do that?
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Empathy doesn't connect to Facebook account
Empathy worked pretty fine until last updates, now it refuses to connect to Facebook account. All other accounts work fine, except Facebook.
My username and password are 100% correct.
I'v tried to ...
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How to move tab bar in empathy?
Empathy is a rather nice IM client and I like the included themes, but I don't see how to move my tabs in my conversation windows to the bottom of the window instead of the top.. any ideas?
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How to remove group in Empathy?
I have created a new group in Empathy IM by right-clicking on a contact, then Edit and Add Group.
How do I remove a group?
UPDATE:
OK, obviously Murat Gunes answer is correct, but that's not ...
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Empathy cannot connect to MSN account
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, ...
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How do I install the empathy smilies (from maverick) in Pidgin?
How do I install the empathy smilies (from maverick) in Pidgin? I really like the look of them.
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Empathy doesn't seem to be saving my display picture
Hey how do I force empathy to save my display pic? I have tried to set it (in different formats and sizes) over a dozen times, all I get is this little silver man.
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