[TriLUG] Pidgin as a background service

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

That is actually the library where I got pidgin to work properly for
facebook.  Bitlbee seems to allow the unread option for the messages, not
sure about online status.  Need to read more on it and setting it up as a
service.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:35 PM, James Whisnant <jwhisnant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use irssi for IRC and use a free ZNC bouncer as a service. I use bitlbee
> for my other chat client protocols (gmail).  It is another tab in irssi.
> Bitlbee runs as as service.  I have not tried Facebook chat with bitlbee.
> The information below may be of interest.
>
> https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookMQTT
> https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Does ZNC work with the current FB messenger protocol.  I am not seeing it
>> listed as a client.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:24:33AM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group
>> > discussion list wrote:
>> > > Are you trying to capture multiple IM protocols such as Gmail, AIM,
>> > XMPP, MSN, etc. or Just one like XMPP?  If it’s XMPP, maybe something
>> like
>> > this would work?
>> >
>> > Another option might be ZNC.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > B
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