empathy

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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,  Group‐
       wise, 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 undocu‐
              mented options (which may change from  release  to  release)  to
              filter the output.

AUTHOR
       This  manual page was written by Laurent Bigonville ⟨bigon@debian.org⟩,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO
       empathy-accounts(1),          The           Telepathy           project
       ⟨http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/⟩,      The      Empathy      project
       ⟨http://live.gnome.org/Empathy⟩.



Telepathy project                February 2010                      EMPATHY(1)