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Alternatives to Pidgin

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Hi all,I use Pidgin for online communication using (predominantly) MSN and XMPP. It's more out of havbit than any conscious desire to use that particular software. Does anyone have any suggestions of alternative software to use which is potentially more lightweight than pidgin? The predominant protocol I want to use is XMPP / Google chat. I'd like the ability to transfer files over MSN if possible, though it's not of huge importance. Don't mind whether it's GTK or QT, as long as it doesn't pull in a load of hideous gnome / kde dependencies. I should be clear that (HowTos)

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Submitted by delinux on 05/02/2012 – Made popular on 05/02/2012

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I was just on Windows 8, and installed Pidgin, and it was able to connect fine to a XMPP service I use. I go to Ubuntu, try the same version of Pidgin (it was preinstalled anyway with Lubuntu), and I'm unable to send messages or enter group chats.

I've tried Pidgin on Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu, and on 2 different machines, and it just doesn't work properly :/ Any suggestions?

Facebook protocol on pidgin 3 years 11 weeks ago

Hi,

Until a few days I had no problem in connecting to facebook chat with pidgin (using XMPP protocol as facebook helps says).

Now, every day a message appears: agunet@chat.facebook.com/pidgin disconnected Service unavailable

anybody know why ? And how can I fix it ?

thanks

I recently installed Pidgin and tried to install pidgin-facebookchat. Ubuntu software center now says that pidgin is corrupt so I press repair but nothing gets fixed. I've tried sudo apt-get purge pidgin but I get this error:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I've had countless friends using Pidgin/OTR that can't authenticate with me.  It seems to only be a problem on Facebook (I think).  Google's XMPP works fine with authenticating with OTR.  Kinda weird since it shouldn't depend on the protocol, right?  What's going on?

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2012-08-24T04:33:5

Pidgin 更新到 2.7.1 2 years 51 weeks ago

支持多种协议的即时通讯客户端 Pidgin 已发布新的 2.7.1 版本。Pidgin 2.7.1 恢复了托盘图标的 blinking 功能、MSN 协议支持直接连接、以及对 Bonjour/ICQ/XMPP/MXit 等进行了细微改善和修正。

Thanks in advance! I am a new user of Ubuntu and I realized that I might have installed a broken pidgin.

Last evening, May 12th, the Pidgin developers proudly presented the brand-new and improved Pidgin 2.7.0 multi-protocol, multi-platform, instant messenger client. The new version brings many fixes for the Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan, AIM, XMPP, MSN, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu and Bonjour protocols, but also some very nice and interesting features (see below for detail...

How to use Pidgin to tweet 44 weeks 4 days ago

Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.

However, with the help of a plugin called pidgin-microblog, you can update and check twitter and some other social networks like Identi.ca, Status.net ..