Re: [orca-list] options apart from pidgin for facebook
- From: Will Estes <westes575 gmail com>
- To: Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>
- Cc: Rob <captinlogic gmail com>, orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] options apart from pidgin for facebook
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 07:53:20 -0400
The fb chat protocol recently changed, so you need a plugin that knows about that. Pidgin uses libpurple
underneath the hood. Bitlbee can use libpurple or not, depending on which way you install it. Bitlbee
presents an irc server to your localhost and then talks to other services through whatever their native
protocol is. I use it for all manner of things -- irc, hangouts, hipchat or slack for work, etc.
That use looks like me firing up irssi and letting irssi autoconnect to things, so it's mostly transparent to
my day to day workflow. I don't know the fb chat plugins for bitlbee, but you might as well have a look. Or
you can see if libpurple has a more recent plugin that knows about the new thing that fb decided to do.
On Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 4:41 pm +0530, Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org> wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 04:20 PM, Rob wrote:
Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org> wrote;
I wish to know if people use other software or plugins in other programs
to do fb chat.
I tryed with latest Thunderbird but the option for facebook in new chat
is not there.
What about bitlbee? There's a facebook plugin and you can use pigin to connect to your bitlbee server. Or
use a public one such as the one found at
im.bitlbee.org
Is it some thing similar to m.facebook.com?
I wish to have a chat client and if pidgin can't connect to fb, would this
not add an extra layer, thus making it more difficult?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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