Facebook through aim

[Christopher Lemire]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Arthur Johnson <arthur.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM, andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:
>> On Thu 2010-03-18 06:33:16 UTC-0500, Christopher Lemire (christopher.lemire at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>>>    Is it possible to use facebook chat through aim with Pidgin or Empathy? If
>>>    facebook chat is using the same protocol as aim, it should be possible
>>>    just like I can add gmail chat contacts to my Jabber account.
>>
>> GMail Chat and Facebook use the Jabber protocol, AIM uses a different
>> protocol.
>>
>> I've had Facebook chat working through Empathy.  I didn't use it much
>> as I found was that if the remote user was using the web-based chat,
>> it was difficult or impossible to reliably tell their
>> online/offline/away status, and that some messages sent to them did
>> not arrive possibly for that reason.
>>
>
> There is instructions for facebook chat over pidgin on Facebook's site.
>
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Ok, I have it working with both Pidgin and Psi. I read about Facebook switching to XMMP, but I didn't know it already happened. Thanks. Any Linux users, feel free to add me to FB.

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
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