Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Brian Beardall <brian@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome 3 instant messaging
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:04:10
Message-Id: 1332362618.29582.2.camel@rapsure.rapsure.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome 3 instant messaging by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Use empathy and setup the accounts to auto-login. Also you need to be
2 "available" to be online. If you are "unavailable" the telepathy backend
3 won't login to the accounts setup in Empathy.
4
5
6 On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 21:36 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
7 > I never used Instant Messaging so far, but now with gnome3 I see the
8 > screenshots of notifications within gnome shell and the somehow
9 > integrated chatting.
10 >
11 > But I have no idea how to get there on my desktop.
12 >
13 > I have the full gnome ebuild installed, got some gmail and icq account
14 > within pidgin or empathy but somehow I don't get it.
15 >
16 > Feels stupid ;-)
17 >
18 > Could someone get me started on this?
19 > I googled quite a while already but didn't get very far ...
20 >
21 > Maybe I am missing something somewhere, I had gnome-light before and
22 > upgraded to full gnome 3 a few weeks before.
23 >
24 > Thanks for any pointers, Stefan