EMPATHY

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 2010
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NAME

empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client

SYNOPSIS

empathy

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.

OPTIONS

-n, --no-connect: Don't connect on startup
-h, --start-hidden: Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup
-v, --version: Show version

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.

AUTHOR

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