Questions tagged [instant-messaging]
Also known as chat - any protocol or application allowing users to send and receive messages in real time. May refer to servers (such as jabberd), clients (such as Gajim, Pidgin or Empathy) and protocols (such as XMPP).
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How to run Signal Desktop in the background?
How is it possible to run Signal Desktop in the background on Ubuntu with a little icon in the taskbar at the top of the screen?
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Is there a way to use Threema on a Ubuntu desktop?
The secure and private Threema messenger app (based in Switzerland) with end-to-end encryption is a great open source alternative for WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, WeChat, FB Messenger, Telegram.
Is there a ...
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How do I install Signal in Ubuntu?
Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, ...
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Chat between Mac and Ubuntu
I need to send files quickly via a chat program between Ubuntu and Mac OS X.
Most chat programs, including WhatsApp and Viber, don't allow self messages.
Is there a program I can use?
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How to get Franz messaging app start minimized and with window along the right edge of the screen?
Franz is probably the best in its class, but it has one UI flaw (starts in a small window somewhere in the middle of the screen and there's no setting to start minimized).
It might be a good idea to ...
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How to autostart the Wire desktop client minimized?
I sucessfully installed the Wire messenger desktop client. How can I start it minimized every time I log in to my account?
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Where are the configuration files for the Wire messenger app saved?
I like to move the configuration files of the Wire messenger app to a new install of Ubuntu. Where are they located?
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Messenger - JavaScript error in the main process
I have installed the Messenger for Desktop app on my 16.04. Everytime I launch the application I get this javascript error seing on screenshot below
However when I click OK the the app launches ...
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How to install the Wire messenger desktop app/client on Ubuntu?
The secure and private Wire messenger app with end-to-end encryption is a great open source alternative for Whatsapp, Skype, Viber, WeChat, FB Messenger, Telegram. You don't need a cell phone number ...
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No connection between Online Accounts and Pidgin?
Running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.
I have added my Google account in the Online Accounts. It is enabled for chat.
Yet when I start Pidgin for chatting, it keeps asking me to add an account.
Am I doing ...
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Instant messenger recommendations [closed]
I am running a primarily Ubuntu 16.04LTS shop. This question is in reference to instant messenger services, not IM clients. My question is for my environment primarily, which is 100% Ubuntu. What I'...
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How can I install IMO Messenger on Ubuntu?
I know that there are other programs (Skype, etc.), but I need namely IMO Messenger.
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Problems installing Telegram on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (defunct icon in Dash)
Oh boy... I have been a Linux user for three weeks now, and I really don't know what to do anymore :-( I tried to install Telegram on my Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS through various ways but with no success....
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Ubuntu Touch suggestion: porting LINE messenger app
I am a Happy BQ E5 Ubuntu Edition owner
I use it as my everyday phone, and it works very well.
The only problem is, as everybody knows, the lack of killer apps.
I use LINE on an Android tablet, and I ...
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telegram with secret chats
What is the best way to run telegram on linux with support for secret chats?
This is what I tried already:
run telegram desktop - works very well but no secret chats feature
pack android telegram ...
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How Install "Telepathy Connection Manager"
When I want to configure instants messaging, for some applications like Office365 lync and Telegram, I receive this error:
This IM Account cannot be created -
a Telepathy Connection Manager named '...
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Telegram phone number change
The instructions to change a phone number in Telegram messenger are not applicable to the Ubuntu phone.
I am not able to change my number in the settings menu.
Any ideas of how to change it?
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Pidgin purple-facebook based account opens up many chatboxes automatically
I installed the pidgin purple-facebook plugin. Whenever I create an account using this plugin, after pidgin logs into the facebook account, automatically my last 50 or so facebook chats open up in the ...
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Alternative to Prosody + Spectrum?
I'm running my own Prosody XMPP server, and I was using the Spectrum plug-in to provide gateways to the other instant-messaging services like AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, etc.
Spectrum has ...
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Error: Could not find or load main class com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher
I am trying to install spark client IM in Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, but it throws the following error:
Could not find or load main class
com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher
I performed step 1 ...
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Kik Messenger/free texting app
I'm planning on buying the upcoming Ubuntu phone, and I'm curious to know if there's any free text/chatting apps for ubuntu phones, for example kik messenger or whats app. Since I would like to be ...
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How to install QQ on Ubuntu 14.04?
I'm a new learner of Ubuntu, installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my PC, but can't install QQ. How can I install it?
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Is there a whatsapp client for linux desktop? [duplicate]
Ideally, I would like something like http://web.telegram.org for WhatsApp.
But I'm just looking for a way to receive and send messages from my Ubuntu Desktop.
Is there some client or any other way ...
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How to install Yahoo Messenger on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? [duplicate]
I'm from India and I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my machine since last year and a half.
So, my issue is: How should I install Yahoo Messenger on my machine?
Installing Yahoo Messenger on Windows ...
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How can I install ICQ on Ubuntu 14.04?
A lot of people are coming back to ICQ because it was updated and now can compete with WhatsApp.
I'm trying to install the newest ICQ on Ubuntu but I having trouble with that. I access the following ...
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Install jitsi from PPAs?
I cannot find the PPA sources for the voice/video and instant messenger chat jitsi.
How do I install it with apt?
apt-get install jitsi
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How to make Yahoo Messenger work?
Just curious if anyone has had any luck or made any progress getting Yahoo Messenger to work with Ubuntu? I know empathy and Viber and a lot of other work, but there are parts of Yahoo that make it a ...
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Run Spark in Ubuntu 14.04
Previously I was using Spark Instant Messenger in Ubuntu 12.04, whenever i need to start spark, just i will run the shell script by double click(In file properties changed as "Allow executing file as ...
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Empathy doesn't show the message, only "minus" signal
I'm using Empathy on my Ubuntu (13.10) and sometimes when I receive the first message, it open the windows, but doesn't show any message, only the "-1 not readed".
Any idea what that means?
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How to install Telegram
I want to work on a small app that will use Telegram from within Ubuntu but wanted to first know if there was already a work in progress for this since I noticed that, for example, pidgin has support ...
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Jitsi always offline on Gmail account
I installed Jitsi messenger and added Gmail account. However, it simply cannot go online. I see it tried to go online and after 1/2s it's reverted back to offline.
Is Google blocking this app maybe? ...
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Skype in Outlook.com in Ubuntu won't work
I wouldn't normally ask a question like this on AskUbuntu - it's more related to web browsers is what some people might say. But, if you read on, you'll see why I'm asking it on this forum:
If I go ...
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How can I change the behavior of enter key in pidgin?
I want to use enter as a new line key and send messages using ctrl+enter.
How can I rebind the behavior of the keys?
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Can I make user list in Empathy more compressed?
Can I make user list in Empathy more compressed? I thought Pidgin's list is too lax, but Empathy is even more so. For comparison, here's Empathy for Ubuntu (left) and QIP for Windows (right):
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What is telepathy in ubuntu?What is the relation of telepathy and empathy?
I have tried to clean up unused packages/software and I tried to remove telepathy but it also affects the empathy package which I use. That makes me wonder why empathy depends on telepathy and what ...
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How to connect Empathy to facebook
I am a new user of Ubuntu and I want to connect empathy internet messaging with Facebook. So when I select Facebook from the list given in Online Accounts a window opens up for me to authorize access ...
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How to install ooVoo on ubuntu 12.04 64 bit [duplicate]
kindly help to install ooVoo in Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
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Looking for alternatives to Empathy for Ubuntu 12.04 and above [duplicate]
I've been looking around at different messaging software however all the documents online are going back to 2009.
Is the any other new alternatives to Empathy?
Thanks
This is different and not a ...
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What IM clients support Jabber and show notifications on the toolbar in Ubuntu 12.10?
I'm migrating from MacOS X back to Ubuntu, and trying to find an IM client I can use. I use IM quite a bit for work, so I really need to see notifications in the toolbar at the top of the screen.
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How to connect to the QQ Messenger network?
I´m looking for a version of QQ messenger for Ubuntu 12.04. I found a note in Wikipedia that there is a beta version of QQ for Linux, but I could't find it. Does anyone know where I can find it?
Are ...
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Is there a messenger that can appear offline to some contacts and online to other contacts?
I am looking for a messenger which lets me choose who I want to appear online to and who I want to appear offline to (like Windows Live Messenger in Windows).
Is there any thing that could do the job ...
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How to tell if SimpLite is running?
I installed SimpLite for Pidgin (IM) on Ubuntu 12.10. After installation I am wondering how to see whether SimpLite is up and running?
For installation for SimpLite see Installing SIMP
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Instant Messenger for Ubuntu and Windows
Does anyone know if there is an instant messenger that can (easily) be installed and work on both Windows (7) and Ubuntu?
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Is there a messenger service implementing something like Windows's "net send"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Send messages between 2 Ubuntu PCs (Net Send Style)
In the microsoft universe you can do funny things with the net send command. According to this I have two questions ...
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Why does Pidgin refuse to connect to Facebook Chat?
I have searched around the net for a solution to my problem. I gave myself an account user name for facebook so I could use the chat in Pidgin 2.10.3. However, no matter what I do, Pidgin refuses to ...
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Are there any instant-messaging clients for server?
I have Virtualbox based Ubuntu server and I have used Google to get answers for Server based IM and got it as Jabber. But it is confusing to me. I would like someone to suggest me an instant-messaging ...
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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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How do I reserve bandwidth?
In windows there is a registry entry called Reserve bandwidth. With that system was reserved some bandwidth from my INTERNET connection so that when i am downloading all other connected application ...
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Is there any way to use Ubuntu with an Android phone?
Could I plug in my Android phone into my Ubuntu PC via USB cable and have text messages and such appear in my Ubuntu notifications? Or something like that (similar to the Ubuntu for Android ...
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