Questions tagged [pidgin]

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.

Pidgin may be downloaded Here and Pidgin support is available Here.

Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MXit, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Pidgin integrates with the system tray on Windows, GNOME2, KDE 3, and KDE 4.

Pidgin is free and contains no ads. All code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can get Pidgin's underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.

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Google Talk over XMPP

I am trying to establish a XMPP connection to talk.google.com on port 5222, however I am getting a 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY response redirecting me to hangouts.google.com. I know Google abandoned GTalk, and what I could find is really inconclusive of…
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Cannot connect to Google Hangouts account from Pidgin

I was able to use gMail (or Hangouts)account in Pidgin client a couple weeks ago. But lately, I got the "Not Authorized" message every time I tried to connect to my gMail account from Pidgin client. Wondering if something has been changed, or…
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Does there exist a Java library for the Zephyr protocol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol) Does there exist a Java library or some sort of Java implementation of the Zephyr protocol? I've tried using Google but haven't managed to find anything. I guess I'm going to have to port it from…
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How to move contacts to another group in pidgin/purple/finch via DBus?

I didn't find a way to move multiple contact buddies to another group in pidgin/finch/libpurple over DBus (e.g. with python) ? I didn't find anything in the API 1|2
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Send message to main room on pidgin in python

i need to create a python script to send a message with specifics alerts to main room of pidgin chat in order to all people connected can see the alert, message and so on. I have a sript working, but only sends the message to a specific person, but…
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Pidgin file transfer over bonjour protocol

i'm running pidgin (the latest in opensuse 13.2 repo available), in yast firewall i've enabled bonjour/avahi service and opened the 5298 port. Now the chat works flawlessly. But i can't transfer files to another pc in the same lan. So on both the…
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Openfire / Pidgin - The connection to the server was lost: The remote user has ended the connection

I created a Openfire server into ubuntu. Next I created the users. The connection from Pidgin client does not work and show the message "The connection to the server was lost: The remote user has ended the connection." I enabled a debug logging on…
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Prosody/Pidgin not sending buddy authorization requests

I'm setting up a Prosody XMPP server on my local machine for a proof of concept, and I just want to get a simple chat session going with myself. I set it to allow registration, and was able to register new users, but when I send a buddy request to…
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Setting Pidgin status from .NET

Is there a practical way to set the global status message in Pidgin for Windows from .NET? Dbus is not available in the Windows version of Pidgin. Searching SO and the net has revealed helpful tips such as "rewrite libpurple in C#", which might be a…
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How to add Google Talk (~ Hangouts) to Pidgin chat client?

There is a hangups plug-in, which supports (if I understand correctly) Google Talk (~ Hangouts). How do I add it to my Pidgin chat client?
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Get the window title or name of the user

I am trying to write a plugin for Pidgin, and stuck at a roadblock. I want to get the name of the user or the title of the window (because the default source code of Pidgin puts the name of the user in the title). Any pointers as to where shall I…
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Dbus.Array (Reading pidgin messages from python)

I am trying to read a message on a pidgin window using python. I have read Pidgin how to and I using the following code: purple.PurpleGetConversations() and I get the following output: dbus.Array([dbus.Int32(14414)],…
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Ultimate chat-client API for .NET?

Does anyone know of a .NET API (source-code is preferrable of course) that I can access all the common chat clients thru it (GT, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, FB, ICQ, SKYPE and more)? I guess I am looking for a .NET library project that performs something like…
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Pidgin: cannot send messages or set topics in chats via dbus

I would like to send messages to Pidgin chats or set chat topics via dbus. Following this guide I was able to write some pretty straightforward code to do just that, and it does indeed result in messages appearing or chat topics being changed... but…
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Cast Purple::Conversation as GTK2::TextView in Pidgin Plugin?

In the subroutine called when the plugin loads, I have the following: my $plugin = shift; my $purple_handle = Purple::Conversations::get_handle(); Purple::Signal::connect($purple_handle, "conversation-updated", $plugin, \&conversation_updated_cb,…