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Questions tagged [telepathy]

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Disable KDE Chat application and system tray icon

I am using a KDE desktop on a "normal" Ubuntu installation. At one point I set up some chat accounts but I stopped using them a year or so ago. Now I want to get rid of the system tray icon for chat. But, I cannot find any way to quit the…
Ben
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What is Telepathy Indicator Service and can I remove it?

What is telepathy-indicator? And what does it do? All I can find is that it's a "Desktop service to integrate Telepathy with the messaging menu" which, I'm afraid, means nothing to me. Can I remove it safely?
dunderhead
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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:…
David Given
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How to fix apparmor="DENIED" for telepathy-mission-control-5 under Ubuntu 14.04?

Just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS a week ago and a few programs for my work & fun: nginx server, rabbitmq server, mysql server php-fpm, hhvm sublime-text, mysql workbench hplib (for printer/scanner) composer, bower, nodejs, npm vlc player steam (no…
loostro
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What protocols support screen sharing on Empathy?

I am trying to follow the directions here but so far have not found a working protocol so I was wondering if anyone knew of a working protocol that works?
TheXed
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KDE Telepathy Google account

I recently upgraded from Kubuntu 14.10 to 15.10 (via 15.04) with Plasma 5.4. The migration from KDE SC 4 to Plasma 5 went rather smoothly (except for some weird hiccup while migrating kwallet... but that still kept working with all applications). I…
dribnif
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APT vs. dpkg - Removing packages with a dependency problem (telepathy)

I wanted to try an application (Kamoso) but its installation failed, and now a system tray icon tells me: An error occurred ... run Package Manager or apt-get to see what is wrong. Error: BrokenCount>0 $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package…
ubuntubu
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Empathy: Account Manager Error "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)"

I run Ubuntu Ocelotin italian language and since a week I get a strange error by Empathy: "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" It seems that telepathy cannot contact the account manager,. As said, Empathy starts but the most…
user37155
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empathy client won't launch since upgrade, no command line output

I am having trouble with any chat client (empathy, pidgin) since updating to Ubuntu 14.04. I am thinking for different reasons (pidgin refuses to connect to google talk, empathy doesn't launch) If I click on empathy, or type it into the command line…
Michael Mallett
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empathy-accounts replaced online accounts

In ubuntu empathy-accounts replaced by "Online accounts". I have not my account in it. How to run empathy-accounts ? Where i can find clear tutorial for porting empathy-accounts to online-accounts ?
eri
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Force reset of login details for Facebook online account

Earlier this week I had to reset my Facebook password. Online Accounts requested me to grant access with the new login details; I mis-typed the new password several times, and got redirected to a secondary authorization page where I finally typed…
WebDrake
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What is telepathy in ubuntu?What is the relation of telepathy and empathy?

I have tried to clean up unused packages/software and I tried to remove telepathy but it also affects the empathy package which I use. That makes me wonder why empathy depends on telepathy and what does telepathy do. Could anyone or someone explain…
user128712
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Why the "identifiant" aren't replaced by the email-address in Empathy?

Since the upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10, I can not see the email address from my Windows Live friends in Empathy. Essentially, when I put the mouse over a contact, a little box will appear. In this box, the field that should containing…
Fred
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Piping command output to an Empathy chat window

This isn't Ubuntu-specific, but since Empathy is the default IM client on Ubuntu, I thought this would be a good place to ask. I have a script that pulls current weather info from Google's weather API, and I'd like to pipe the output to an Empathy…
Wesley Rice
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How can I stop the kde-telepathy UI from appearing under Unity when I use the messaging menu?

KDE Telepathy keeps getting in the way every time I try to use Empathy from the messaging menu. If I get a message, it opens in the KDE telepathy UI instead of in Empathy. This is rather frustrating as it causes a delay before it opens, and is not…
RolandiXor
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