[ubuntu-studio-users] What is the name of a good messenger clint running on 64 bit grome 3 latest. pidgen keeps crashing out.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 21:00 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
> "good is a matter of opinion and use case.. i use irssi, but i think
> everyone will agree that xchat is a nice gui one and well supported...
> or, troubleshoot the crashing of pidgin by first moving or removing
> its config from your user /home, or testing it as another user (such
> as the guest user)...

http://linux.die.net/man/1/pidgin

Run it in a terminal.

pidgin --force-online --config=~/.purple.test

Take a look at the log files in ~/.purple/logs and take a look at
~/.xsession-errors.

Note, I don't have knowledge about this program, nor is it installed on
my machine, I searched the web for   man pidgin   and got the man page.
If something doesn't work, it's always useful to run the command in a
terminal-emulation, if available in verbose mode.

Always check --help or man pages. Take a look at
~/.xsession-errors, /var/log etc..