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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Pidgin building from source ./configure error

I am trying to build Pidgin from the source code, and have been following the directions here. When trying to run ./configure, I get these errors: ./configure: line 2672: config.log: Permission denied ./configure: line 2682: config.log: Permission…
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Ejabberd Server not allowing user to login

Steps to Create the Issue: logged into my ejabberd admin portal. Added a User. Attempted to login with the same configuration as a working account. Pidgeon says "Not Authorized" Additional info: I see the user in the list of "Users" in the admin…
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how to add a new files to existing makefile project

I am trying to add some functionality to existing makefile project. I wrote some .c and .h files. After some googling time I found that Makefile.am should be modified and run autoreconf will do what I need. Can some one please explain how to do…
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XMPPHP as live support chat

My idea is to integrate a live support chat on a website. The users text is send with xmpphp to my jabber client with the jabberbot sender id and if I answer, the jabber bot, takes my answer and transfers the text to the user. There is only one…
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Ejabberd vCard : URI image not working

I'm trying to set the PHOTO vCard attribute with an URI provided by our backend, according to the xep-0054,
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Python Access Pidgin Data Structure by Dbus

I recentely started to program in Python and making a script/plugin for Pidgin,i need to access PurpleConversationUiOps and use the has_focus field,based in some examples in documentation of Pidgin i made this: #!/usr/bin/env python import…
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pidgin always show connecting

I need to connect pidgin to xmpp server on BOSH. My xmpp server is ready with http-bind. But pidgin always shows connecting message and it never connects. If i connect with xmpp without BOSH, it got connected. My pidgin configuration are…
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Buddy selected signal in Pidgin API

I'm writing a plugin for Pidgin and I need to catch one special event - I need to react when you click/select a "buddy" in the "buddy list" in Pidgin. Please, guys do you know if there is such signal (I guess this is where it should be listed, if…
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PHP Parse Pidgin Emoticon Pack

I have this big list of emoticons for the pack that I have downloaded, thankfully they came with the emote codes so I didn't have to make all those (like smile is :) and :-)). Here is an example chunk of the file format it's in. smile.png …
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Send Notification to pidgin via python 2.4

In my application I want to send notifications to users through their pidgin internet messanger using python 2.4. Does anyone can show some light on how this can be done?
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Office Communicator not shown in Pidgin ubuntu 14.04

I had a issue, while connecting to my office network, with ubuntu 14.04. I used to connect well, when i had ubuntu13.04 installed. I was using Office Communicator protocol at that time. Recently i upgraded my ubuntu, and reinstalled pidgin. But this…
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how to Pidgin , Python , whatsapp?

if we have this code for Pidgin used for msn : #!/usr/bin/python import sys, dbus, gobject; bus = dbus.SessionBus() obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject") purple = dbus.Interface(obj,…
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