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

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

Indeed,

it does.  In Ubuntu you can add the repository and do sudo apt-get 
install for the said package.

Happy hacking.

Krishnakant.



On Thursday 06 April 2017 12:12 PM, Vojtěch Polášek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in Arch Linux installing purple-facebook-git package helped.
>
> Vojta
>
>
> Dne 5.4.2017 v 16:39 Krishnakant napsal(a):
> > 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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