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

Hi,
i've connected my facebook with thunderbird. now how to access the contact list and start chatting? using thunderbird latest, orca 3.14.3, ubuntu 15.04. 


On Isnin 13 Jul 2015 05:49 , kk wrote:




I am Using Ubuntu
Can you tell me exact apt-get install packages, I installed pidgin-dev and libpurple-dev, I can't get the rest, so it is but natural that autoreconf gives error I get aclocal failed with exit status 1. 
this happens with when i just type autoreconf and press enter.
Happy hacking.
Krishnaknat..
 On Monday 13 July 2015 02:43 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:

What fails did you receive in autoreconf? Which distro are you using
Thanks.
On 07/13/2015 06:05 AM, kk wrote:

I think the pidgen option with the new API is a great alternative.
But Still not able to get it build for me.
If any one can please get the .so file then Orca, Pidgin and FB will be back to work again. So much has been done to make Pidgin so accessible, it is sad that one can't use it. 
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Monday 13 July 2015 04:50 AM, B.Henry wrote:
it's very accessible, but not really usable with twitter as messages are 
in a grid and it's way too slow to locate a specific tweet.
I can't remember under what conditions incoming messages are read
automatically, come on gtalk or facebook chat and can test.
I  think tbird is as likely to break as pidgin...lol.
But it is a decent alternative/works pretty well for irc also.
      B.H.
    Registerd Linux User 521886

On 12/07/15 06:10 PM, kendell clark wrote:

hi
I've always wondered whether tb chat was accessible. Does orca
automatically read incoming messages like it does with pidgin? If so
that's another option if something happens to pidgin.
Thanks
Kendell clark


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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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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