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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Does libpurple media api require pidgin UI to launch video screen?

Does lipurple media API require Pidgin UI to launch video screen? Without pidgin UI just by using libpurple backend media API's can we launch video screen?
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openfire error when try to connect via http-bind

Hello i an install in my local machine openfireserver. Below this is my http-binding config: ![Openfire configure http-config][1] I also add new user in Pidgin: protocol: Xmpp username: test domain: localhost resource: test pass:…
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Pidgin script with Python/ Get Focus Signal

I am creating a script in Python to integrate Pidgin with Unity (Ubuntu 12.04), I've managed to do the counting notifications system using the Unity API, but i dont know what event or signal that is activated when the conversation window gains…
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how to configure local ejabberd sever with pidgin?

I have installed ejabberd server locally (localhost:5280), now question is how to configure local ejabberd sever with pidgin ?
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Pidgin Syntax For Raw String Literal Parser using Between, Then, AnyCharExcept, or some other variation

The Problem I have the below parser that uses Pidgin. I want to add support for raw string literals. So I could have a string with 3 double quotes like this Title == """lamb is great on a "gee-ro" not a "gy-ro" sandwich""" or use more than 3 if i…
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How do I send & receive messages in pidgin with python 3?

I'm trying to make a game in python 3 for a friend of mine and I want to send multiplayer data safely and easily through an instant messaging software. Is there any way I can send and receive messages with python 3 in pidgin? If you can think of…
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XMPP HTML Message sends to Pidgin but fails to send to Jitsi

Anyone know why a Message formatted in this way would send properly via XMPP to users running Pidgin but fail to send at all to users running Jitsi? There is no error message to accompany the failure.
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How to make voice/video call in pidgin (XMPP)?

I'm using ejabberd as my XMPP server and Pidgin as my client. My ejabberd version is 22.05 and my Pidgin version is 2.14.10 I have configured my ejabberd server for making voice/video call by following this article. Now what should I do to make…
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Gaim - How to develop a plugin? (Pidgin)

I need some of your help. I searched everywhere on the internet, but I could not find how to create a plugin for Gaim, the predecessor of Pidgin. I do NOT want to create a Pidgin plugin. I want to create a Gaim plugin, but since Gaim is very old,…
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XMPP Chat States with Pidgin

I am writing a chat support application that connects to an XMPP server using the SASL Anonymous mechanism. When a user opens my website in their browser, using Socket.IO and NodeJS the server will initiate the anonymous connection with my XMPP…
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wmii configuration script for Pidgin notification

I am new to wmii. Could anybody kind enough to share his configuration script with a nice status bar that could display notifications from Pidgin?
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Missing gstreamer and farsight dependencies in pidgin

I am trying to compile pidgin and getting the following error on runing the configure script(see below). This is the newest unstable version of Debian with the 2.6.38-2-686 kernel. It's not clear for me what dependency I am missing. Any help…
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Pidgin for XMPP -- SSL Handshake failed

I installed the latest Ubuntu 18.04 and am trying to connect to our in-house XMPP server (which is quite old and I have no access to) with Pidgin like I used to. But I'm unable to connect... Getting an SSL Handshake Failed error. This is what I get…
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Keep GtkWidget from destroying when parent does

I'm currently writing a plugin for a GTK+ Software (Pidgin). I haven't worked with GTK before, so I'm only somewhat familiar with how objects work from the documentation. I'm creating a few thousand buttons with images on them (smileys) and storing…
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Pidgin is not working in squid proxy

I have setup a test lab with Squid Proxy version 3.5.20. I have allowed port 5222 in squid proxy but still pidgin is not communicating with Openfire Server. Below the Squid.conf configuration. acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 …
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