Questions tagged [msn]

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Problems Connecting MSN with empathy

I don't know if I am the only one with this bug, but I can't use my MSN account with a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 with Empathy. It used to work with my Arch Linux, but now with Ubuntu, it continuously tries to connect but nothing happens. How…
aliasbody
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Empathy cannot connect to MSN account

I've just installed Maverick, and while it seems to work so far, Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN account. I've verified that Pidgin can connect. I've tried looking at the Empathy debug log, but all I see is: Starting butterfly 0.5.14:…
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Is Live Video Chat with MSN/Windows possible?

Is this currently possible in either Lucid or Maverick?
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Pidgin will not connect to MSN any longer

About 3 weeks ago, pidgin stopped connecting to the MSN network and I get the "Connection error from Notification server: Connection refused" message. This issue occurs in both my Ubuntu 12.04 machine and my WIn7 machine. Trillian on my windows…
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How can I get plugins for emesene 2?

Emesene 2 is cool, but it lacks the additional plugins present in the previous version (see screenshot below; the plugins tab is empty in emesene 2). So where can I find plugins to download? Is there a way to copy the plugins from emesene 1 to…
Binarylife
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How to approve a contact in Empathy?

I have a tiny but important problem. Someone has added me to their contact list on MSN, this shows up with a notification. The problem is that I can't find out how to approve the invitation. How can I do it?
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Msn account not connecting on Empathy

Msn keeps "connecting" without actually doing so eventually. isn't the: server: messenger.hotmail.com port: 1863?
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How can I show the msn user picture in Empathy?

In Empathy, I can use the default image in google talk. But, with msn, the picture didn't show. How can I config it to make it right.
user8260
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Cannot access Windows files from Ubuntu

I just installed Ubuntu on my netbook thinking I could decide whether to start Ubuntu or Windows XP at will. Now if I try to start Windows, it says system32 is missing and I don't know how to access my files from Ubuntu. How do I find my files? Can…
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Slow files transfers between pidgin/empathy and msn/wlm

I always get low transfer rate by sending or receiving files to msn/wlm. What can I do to solve that? Tks
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Messenger program that supports MSN protocol and supports unity bar?

I'm presently using pidgin, but it doesn't adequately notify me when I receive a message. I know I can get it to make noise, and pop up a notification, but I very specifically would like the icon to flash or wiggle (or something) on the sidebar…
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Instant messaging clients

Possible Duplicate: Available instant messaging clients Are there any instant messaging clients with custom emoticons like on the Windows Live Messenger or do I have to use Wine for it? I've already tried Pidgin and the default Empathy clients.…
Andri
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Is there a way to install the MS Windows version of msn?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) I need to install Msn - the Windows version of MSN, but can only find Amsn which is not what I need. Is there a way to install Windows's Msn?
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Facebook and MSN not connecting in Ubuntu 13.10

In 12.04LTS it all works fine but in 13.10 neither Facebook nor MSN connects. Seriously I wish Ubuntu will go back to Pidgin that just works fine without any issues.
Arup Roy Chowdhury
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