1. NAME▲

empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

empathy

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, MSN, Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ.

The main user interface consists of a contact list window and an icon in the notification area.

4. OPTIONS ▲

R -n ,  --no-connect

    Don't connect on startup

R -h ,  --start-hidden

    Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup

R -v ,  --version

    Show version

5. ENVIRONMENT ▲

  • EMPATHY_LOGFILE= filename
        If set, debug output will go to the given file rather than to stderr.
  • EMPATHY_DEBUG= type
        May be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options (which may change from release to release) to filter the output.

6. AUTHOR ▲

This manual page was written by .MT Laurent Bigonville .ME , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

7. SEE ALSO ▲

R empathy-accounts (1), http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ The Telepathy project http://live.gnome.org/Empathy The Empathy project