Re: [orca-list] options apart from pidgin for facebook

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

yes pidgin worked again.

For those who depend on Pidgin for fb chat must update their 
libpurple.so library.


https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook

It is now called purple facebook.

If you have libpurple.so in your /usr/lib/pidgin/ directory, make sure 
you remove it before installing this one.

Happy hacking.

Krishnakant.


On Wednesday 05 April 2017 05:23 PM, Will Estes wrote:
> 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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