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Re: [orca-list] pidgin and fb stopped working together, what now?

So sorry/happy...Sorry because I posted that FB chat was not working
before I'd figured out a local/personal issue that was causing FB to not
connect with my t-bird as it always has for the last couple of years
when ever I tried it, so happy of course because t-bird chat is working
in thunderbird.lol.
BTW, for those who use bitlbee there's been a new plug-in for facebbook
for a month or more. I just installed it and it works fine. Also, for
less secure apps facebook now has app passwords available if you go to
the privacy shortcuts page, then security and go down a ways through
options. Focus may not switch when you click on the generate password
button, but it does work. Copy the string, 10 chars I think and use it
instead of your normal fb password when authing an app. You tell
facebook what the pw is for when you generate the pw. It's only good
once, so if something goes wrong when you try and sign in with your app
first time, just go back and get another one. I'd leave the FB page open
just in case untill you have successfully signed in.
I should have done this with thunderbird actually, did use it last night
with bitlbee.
So good job mozilla for being way ahead of the curve on this, or if this
just went in to a recent update for at least making the transition seamless.
    

     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 12/07/15 05:50 PM, B.Henry wrote:

I have never noticed any difference in performance on my less than
state of the market hardware with any chat accounts on thunderbird.
Yes, chat was added back when, thought it was TB15, but I always
thought it was         . It's not working for me now anyway, but going
to check something just in case as I've not used TB chat in a couple
of months I think, least not on this machine.
I think it's indeed broken like everything else though.
 Going to try a nightly build from the last day or so to make sure
that they have not changed to the new api.
I've not googled about this so if you are sure that thunderbird is
indeed using a facebook api and not jabber then I apologize for
wasting time reading this.


     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 12/07/15 09:20 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,

I know THunderbird is verry verry sluggish at times but I don't think
it might have something to do with facebook account.
I think you should start thunderbird, press tab key then press left
arrow key several times, press the tab key again and left arrow
several times. Repeat this some two or three more times to make sure
all the folders are collapsed. Then exit thunderbird, wait a little
while and try to start it again.
Now you should have got rid of that horrible lag and you can continue
like normal. For example if you wish to remove that facebook account,
you can go to menubar -> Edit -> Accounts, find the facebook account,
tab to the account actions button and hit delete from its popup menu.


Greetings

Peter

 On 12.07.2015 at 16:01 Krishnakant Mane wrote:

On 12/07/2015, Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:

Hello,
There is nothing to install when using Thunderbird.
Any recent version of Thunderbird is enough, I guess Thunderbird has
this thing built in since version 17 or something similar.
Knowing this you can just go to
Menu bar -> File -> Chat account. A new account wizard should open. In
the list of supported protocols choose Facebook chat. Hit next and
fill
in your account name and password on upcoming screens. Your facebook
account is not your email address nor your phone number. You can
opt to
have one on the facebook website if you had not done this previously.
With this being sayd, Facebook XMPP interface is obsolete everywhere,
they have stated numerous times they are discontinuing that so I am
afraid this is just coincidence it's still working for me like this.

Back to facebook-purple José has recommended, the following is an
excerpt from their readme...

Make sure glib, json-glib, libpurple (pidgin), and zlib are installed
with their headers and development information. If these packages came
from the distribution's repository, they will likely need additional
development packages, usually suffixed with -dev.


I'm not on debian and compatible so I think apt-cache and apt-get will
help you if you are on ubuntu and similar.
On archlinux, José has even quoted PKGBUILD script you can use to
build
this.

Greetings

Peter

On 12.07.2015 at 09:22 kk wrote:

Hi Peter,
How do you install the plugin?
Secondly, how do you chat?
Is it very accessible using Thunderbird?
Can you mail me off the list about the details?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Sunday 12 July 2015 12:49 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,
This is interesting. I am using thunderbird for chatting on
facebook,
my girl friend is using instantbird on windows, we both are
connecting via xmpp to it and it appears to work even today at least
I can see all my contacts online.
Yesterday I was even chatting with one of my other friends.

Greetings

Peter

On 12.07.2015 at 09:11 kk wrote:

I could not compine it.
Can any one please tell me what dependencies I need>
I tryed to install pidgin-dev and libpurple-dev, but still nothing
works, the autoreconf install fails and I can't go any further with
the setup.
Can any one guide me?
I guess it is a matter of one .so file which needs to be coppied to
some share/purple directory or some thing.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Sunday 12 July 2015 06:49 AM, B.Henry wrote:

Just to report that it is indeed working fine here too. Don't
forget to clean up quote chars, e.g. > and any broken lines that
may appear in your email message before trying the PKGBUILD,
but if
you are using arch you don't need the reminder most
likely...smiles.
Anyway, thanks for posting this promptly José.

       B.H.
     Registerd Linux User 521886
On 11/07/15 08:20 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:

I received the following, perhaps it can help.
It was posted in the arch-general archlinux org

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Javier
Vasquez<j e vasquez v gmail com>
wrote:


I just found out facebook no longer supports xmpp interface, and
it's
using its own api [1].

However I found a plugin for pidgin on github [2].  It seems
to be
working fine for me.

If anyone interested, the following PKGBUILD is also working
for me:

++++++++++++++++++++++
# Maintainer: Javier <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail dot com>
pkgname=purple-facebook
pkgver=a34b993324e4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook";
license=('GPL2')
depends=('libpurple' 'pidgin')
source=("
https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook/releases/download/${pkgver}/purple-facebook-${pkgver}.tar.gz

")
md5sums=('50e706ec573708da63951c33b5db120d')

build() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make
}

package() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
    install -Dm644 COPYING
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
++++++++++++++++++++++


-- 
Javier

[1]
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empathy-pidgin-stop-working

[2]https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook


I'm not using it but a quick aur search found this:
https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/purple-facebook-git/
If you think whatever you are using is better, you could
publish it
to
aur(4)


On 07/11/2015 10:07 AM, kk wrote:

hello all,
This is bad news.
Pidgin and FB won't work now it seems.
So if I go to facebook.com will I be able to chat using Orca?
I never tired this before so wished to have a word or 2 from
experienced people.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

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The manual is
athttp://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html

The FAQ is athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests athttp://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp



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The FAQ is athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests athttp://bugzilla.gnome.org
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I tryed the fb plugin on Thunderbird, but do I say I tryed! This was
the most uggly experience I had with Thunderbird.
I am writing this email from the google web site.  I have to do this
because Now Thunderbird does not work at all.
Not just that, once I start it, the entire OS is either hang or at
least speechless.  I got force quit button after 5 minutes and even
after doing that, Orca is sluggish in all applications that I open.
In short, Thunderbird came, jammed the system to such an extent that
even after force quit, my machine does not come back to normalcy.
Now I want to ask, (although it is off topic ) how to remove the
facebook folder from Thunderbird's folder?  I mean there is the
.thunderbird folder in Home/kk (my user account).
I will remove it and try again.
But don't know which folder it is.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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