I'm trying to connect to Skype throught Empathy 3.4 in Ubuntu 12.04 i386 (last update installed)
I installed the pidgin-skype plugin, but there is no bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus protocol in list.
It works fine with Pidgin.
The question (here) answers the question about whether or not Empathy can be replaced with Pidgin.
What it doesn't answer is whether or not removing Empathy (via Software Centre) will break Ubuntu 11.10 because of the obvious integration (like statuses in messaging menu).
I prefer Pidgin's (more accurate) notifications to Empathy's, hence the desire to change.
Can I safely remove Empathy?
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 telepathy-butterfly and also tried to completely remove Empathy and install it again, didn't work !
any ideas ?
I found an interesting project (skypathy)
what this project does is runs skype via empathy (sky-pathy)
with the help from a pidgin plugin that also works with empathy
pidgin-skype i installed everything like so
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skype-wrapper/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype skype-wrapper empathy pidgin-skype
sudo apt-get remove sni-qt
then run the skype first.
I uninstalled indicator-messages because I'd rather have separate icons for my programs. The problem I have now is that pidgin icon won't show up (while others do, like empathy, skype and so on). Or to be more precise, it shows up but is transparent.
If you have any idea about how to fix that, it's appreciated. I tried to relaunch pidgin once or twice but it doesn't change anything.
i'm new to ubuntu and am having some issues doing a few things. I'm trying to video chat on yahoo but am having trouble getting pidgin or empathy to recognize my webcam. I also can't figure out how to customize or change the screensavers . Any help would be appreciated. Thanx to all
Many IM chat clients available to use, but which one is the best choice for you. Basically most of them do the same job for me i usually use empathy my favorite one. many IM clients supporting connecting to multiple networks accounts “Hotmail, yahoo, facebook, irc, gmail, ICQ, AIM, myspace, Japper, even more with adding custom API”
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 access to their service from certain sametime client versions only.
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 me have the entire list of IM clients that run on Ubuntu.
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