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NAME

6       empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client
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SYNOPSIS

9       empathy
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DESCRIPTION

12       GNOME  multi-protocol  chat  and  call client Instant messaging program
13       supporting text, voice, video,  file  transfers  and  inter-application
14       communication  over  many  different  protocols,  including:  AIM, MSN,
15       Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut,  Gadu-Gadu,  Group‐
16       wise, ICQ and QQ.
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18       The  main  user interface consists of a contact list window and an icon
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OPTIONS

22       -n, --no-connect
23              Don't connect on startup
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25       -h, --start-hidden
26              Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup
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28       -v, --version
29              Show version
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ENVIRONMENT

32       EMPATHY_LOGFILE=filename
33              If set, debug output will go to the given file  rather  than  to
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36       EMPATHY_DEBUG=type
37              May  be  set  to "all" for full debug output, or various undocu‐
38              mented options (which may change from  release  to  release)  to
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AUTHOR

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

46       empathy-accounts(1),          The           Telepathy           project
47       ⟨http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/⟩,      The      Empathy      project
48       ⟨http://live.gnome.org/Empathy⟩.
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52Telepathy project                February 2010                      EMPATHY(1)