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Now you can open conversation window and new icon sould appear beside menu. Press it to enable or disable encryption. | Now you can open conversation window and new icon sould appear beside menu. Press it to enable or disable encryption. | ||
Also if you want to make encryption enabled by default right-click on a buddy's name (in your buddy list), and select Turn Auto-Encrypt On. Now, whenever a new conversation window for that buddy is opened, encryption will start out as enabled. | Also if you want to make encryption enabled by default right-click on a buddy's name (in your buddy list), and select Turn Auto-Encrypt On. Now, whenever a new conversation window for that buddy is opened, encryption will start out as enabled. | ||
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+ | === Pidgin-GPG === | ||
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+ | Pidgin-GPG transparently encrypt conversations using GPG, and taking advantage of all the features of a pre-existing WoT. | ||
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+ | The plugin is available on AUR as [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pidgin-gpg/ pidgin-gpg]. It is enable in the same way as the previously mentioned ones. | ||
== Sametime protocol == | == Sametime protocol == |
Revision as of 11:37, 18 May 2013
zh-CN:Pidgin Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an instant messaging client for Linux that can connect to many different IM networks, such as Live Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, AIM, etc. One of Pidgin's key features is that you can use many networks at the same time.
Contents
- 1 Installation
- 2 Spellcheck
- 3 Sound fix
- 4 Browser error
- 5 QIP Encoding bug
- 6 IRC
- 7 Xfire
- 8 Facebook XMPP
- 9 Privacy
- 10 Sametime protocol
- 11 SIP/Simple protocol for Live Communications Server 2003/2005/2007
- 12 Other packages
- 13 Skype plugin
- 14 Auto logout on suspend
- 15 Troubleshooting
- 16 History Import Kopete To Pidgin
- 17 Microphone
- 18 See also
Installation
Install pidgin, available in the Official Repositories.
You may also want to install additional plugins from the purple-plugin-pack.
Spellcheck
Aspell will be installed as a dependency, but to prevent all of your text from showing up as incorrect you will need to install an aspell dictionary:
# pacman -S aspell-en
This installs the English dictionary. Use pacman -Ss aspell
to list available languages.
Sound fix
To have event sounds working, install the gstreamer0.10-good package. Alternatively, in the "Sounds" preferences tab, the method can be set to 'command' and one of the following sound commands used.
After configuring ALSA:
aplay %s
If using OSS:
ossplay %s
And for PulseAudio:
paplay %s
Browser error
If clicking a link within Pidgin creates an error message about trying to use 'sensible-browser' to open a link, try editing ~/.purple/prefs.xml
. Find the line referencing 'sensible-browser' and change it to this:
<pref name='command' type='path' value='firefox'/>
This example assumes you use Firefox.
QIP Encoding bug
There is another bug in character encoding when communicating between Pidgin and QIP, which especially affects Czech language, but there are also other languages affected. There are two possible solutions. The better one is to upgrade from QIP to QIP 2012 or QIP Infium, second solution is to install and enable plugin from pidgin-qip-decoderAUR package currently available from AUR.
IRC
This is a small tutorial for connecting to Freenode. It should work for other IRC networks as long as you substitute the port numbers and other specific settings.
Go to Accounts -> Manage Accounts -> Add -> Fill/select the following options:
Protocol: IRC Username: <your username>
Now go to Buddies -> New instant message ( or hit ctrl + m) fill 'freenode.net' in the textbox and <username>@irc.freenode.net -> then click 'Ok'. Type:
/join #archlinux (channel is irrelevant)
In order to register your nick, type:
/msg nickserv register <password> <email-addres>
Follow the instructions from the registration mail. For further help type:
/msg nickserv help /msg nickserv help <command>
This final step will add your channel to 'Buddies': go to Buddies -> Add chat -> fill the correct channel in the textbox named channel (#archlinux).
Xfire
Simply install pidgin-gfire and then add a new account, selecting xfire as protocol.
Facebook XMPP
Since Facebook Chat supports XMPP, you can use Pidgin without extra plugins. See this article for more information: Facebook Chat Now Available Everywhere
1. Go to "Accounts" and select "Manage Accounts."
2. On the Basic tab, enter the following info:
- Protocol: XMPP
- Username: Your facebookID (without e-mail domain, e.g. @yahoo.com, etc)
- Domain: chat.facebook.com (make sure you haven't typed any extra space)
- Resource: Pidgin (leave this empty if you get "username@chat.facebook.com/Pidgin Not Authorized" error message)
- Password: Your Password
- Local alias: Your Name
3. Click the Advanced tab, then enter the following info:
- Connect port: 5222
- Connect server: chat.facebook.com (make sure you haven't typed any extra space)
- (Uncheck the box labeled "Require SSL/TLS")
Privacy
Pidgin has some privacy rules set by default. Namely, the whole world cannot send you messages; only your contacts or people selected from a list. Adjust this, and other settings through:
Tools -> Privacy
Pidgin-OTR
This is a plugin that brings Off-The-Record (OTR) messaging to Pidgin. OTR is a cryptographic protocol that will encrypt your instant messages.
First you need to install pidgin-otr from [extra], like so:
# pacman -S pidgin-otr
Once this has been done, OTR has been added to Pidgin.
To enable OTR, start Pidgin and go to Tools -> Plugins or press Ctrl + U. Scroll down to the entry entitled "Off-The-Record Messaging". If the checkbox beside it is not checked, check it.
Next, click on the plugin entry and select "Configure plugin" at the bottom. Select which account you wish to generate a key for, then click "Generate". You will have now generated a private key. If you are not sure what the other options do, leave them, the default options will work fine.
The next step is to contact a buddy who also has OTR installed. In the chat window, a new icon should appear to the top right of your text input box. Click on it, and select "Start private conversation". This will start an 'Unverified' session. Unverified sessions are encrypted, but not verified - that is, you have started a private conversation with someone using your buddy's account who has OTR, but who might not be your buddy. The steps for verification of a buddy are beyond the scope of this section; however, they might be added in the future.
Pidgin-Encryption
Pidgin-Encryption transparently encrypts your instant messages with RSA encryption. Easy-to-use, but very secure.
# pacman -S pidgin-encryption
You can enable it the same way as Pidgin-OTR.
Now you can open conversation window and new icon sould appear beside menu. Press it to enable or disable encryption. Also if you want to make encryption enabled by default right-click on a buddy's name (in your buddy list), and select Turn Auto-Encrypt On. Now, whenever a new conversation window for that buddy is opened, encryption will start out as enabled.
Pidgin-GPG
Pidgin-GPG transparently encrypt conversations using GPG, and taking advantage of all the features of a pre-existing WoT.
The plugin is available on AUR as pidgin-gpg. It is enable in the same way as the previously mentioned ones.
Sametime protocol
Sametime support is not available in the default version of Arch Linux's Pidgin package. This section will demonstrate how to enable this feature via AUR and the 'Meanwhile' plugin. This section assumes that you are familiar with using the AUR and that you are performing the following commands in ~/builds
directory.
First install meanwhileAUR from the AUR.
Now you have to rebuild your installed version of Pidgin with Sametime support: the procedure is different depending on whether you have Pidgin from [extra] or from a package in AUR.
[extra] package
Make sure you have installed the Arch Build System and downloaded the ABS tree.
Now copy the pidgin directory of ABS to ~/builds
:
$ cp -r /var/abs/extra/pidgin ~/builds
Go to ~/builds/pidgin
and edit the PKGBUILD
file. Go to the build()
section and make sure you remove the --disable-meanwhile
line from the configure options.
Make the package:
$ makepkg -s
Install first the libpurple package as root:
# pacman -U libpurple-version-arch.pkg.tar.gz
After that install the pidgin package as root:
# pacman -U pidgin-version-arch.pkg.tar.gz
Pidgin now has the 'Sametime' protocol as an option when creating accounts.
AUR package
Download and extract your Pidgin package from AUR (this example will use pidgin-gnome, change to preference):
$ cd ~/builds && wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pidgin-gnome/pidgin-gnome.tar.gz && tar xfvz pidgin-gnome.tar.gz
Change into the extracted directory:
$ cd pidgin-gnome
In order to have 'Sametime' support you must remove the following from PKGBUILD
--disable-meanwhile
Build the package:
$ makepkg -s
Install the package as root:
# pacman -U pidgin-gnome-2.5.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Pidgin now has the 'Sametime' protocol as an option when creating accounts.
SIP/Simple protocol for Live Communications Server 2003/2005/2007
The pidgin-sipeAUR plugin is available from AUR.
Other packages
Arch has other Pidgin-related packages. Here are the most popular (for a thorough list, search the AUR):
- pidgin-libnotify - Libnotify support, for theme-consistent notifications
- guifications - Toaster-style popup notifications
- microblog-purpleAUR - Libpurple plug-in supporting microblog services like Twitter
- pidgin-lightAUR - All supported protocols same as default; but without gstreamer, tcl, tk or xscreensaver support. No video/voice.
- pidgin-latexAUR - A small latex plugin for pidgin. Put math between $$ and have it rendered (recepient also needs to have this installed)
Skype plugin
Install skype4pidginAUR from the AUR.
Auto logout on suspend
If you suspend your computer pidgin seems to stay connected for about 15 minutes. To prevent message loss, it is needed to set your status offline before suspending or hibernating. The status message won't be changed.
Therefor create a new systemd unit pidgin-suspend
in /etc/systemd/system
Take the following snippet and replace myuser
with your user.
[Unit] Description=Suspend Pidgin Before=sleep.target StopWhenUnneeded=yes [Service] Type=oneshot User=myuser RemainAfterExit=yes Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStart=-/usr/bin/purple-remote setstatus?status=offline ExecStop=-/usr/bin/purple-remote setstatus?status=available [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target
If you are using pm-utils, you could create a 00pidgin
file in /etc/pm/sleep.d/
instead.
(replace myuser with your username)
#!/bin/sh # # 00pidgin: set offline/online status case "$1" in hibernate|suspend) DISPLAY=:0 su -c 'purple-remote setstatus?status=offline' %myuser ;; thaw|resume) DISPLAY=:0 su -c 'purple-remote setstatus?status=available' %myuser ;; *) exit $NA ;; esac
Troubleshooting
- If facebook XMPP verification does not work for you, there a package in the aur pidgin-facebookchat which does not require a unique user name (you may login with an email address)
- The facebookchat plugin will prompt for varification (enter these two words...), if that fails, hit cancel and log onto facebook with pidgin open, this will configre the plugin's security setting)
Installing Pidgin After a Carrier Installation
- If you previously installed Carrier (aka FunPidgin), follow these steps before installing Pidgin
- Quit Carrier
- Delete your ~/.purple directory (Warning: this will remove all your user settings for any programs that use libpurple, i.e. Pidgin, Carrier, etc.)
rm -r ~/.purple
- Remove Carrier and libpurple
pacman -R carrier libpurple
- Install Pidgin and libpurple
pacman -S pidgin libpurple
History Import Kopete To Pidgin
- Install xalan-c
pacman -S xalan-c
- Create ~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin.sh with this code:
#!/bin/sh KOPETE_DIR=~/.kde4/share/apps/kopete/logs PIDGIN_DIR=~/.purple/logs CURRENT_DIR=~/bin cd ~ if [ ! -d $KOPETE_DIR ];then echo "Kopete log directory not found" exit 1; fi if [ ! -d $PIDGIN_DIR ];then echo "Pidgin log directory not found" exit 2; fi for KOPETE_PROTODIR in `ls $KOPETE_DIR` do PIDGIN_PROTODIR=`echo $KOPETE_PROTODIR | sed 's/Protocol//' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` for accnum in `ls $KOPETE_DIR/$KOPETE_PROTODIR` do echo "Account number: $accnum" for num in `ls $KOPETE_DIR/$KOPETE_PROTODIR/$accnum` do FILENAME=`Xalan $KOPETE_DIR/$KOPETE_PROTODIR/$accnum/$num $CURRENT_DIR/history_import_kopete2pidgin_filename.xslt` if [ $? = 0 ]; then echo "$KOPETE_DIR/$KOPETE_PROTODIR/$accnum/$num" echo " -> $PIDGIN_DIR/$PIDGIN_PROTODIR/$FILENAME" mkdir -p `dirname $PIDGIN_DIR/$PIDGIN_PROTODIR/$FILENAME` Xalan -o $PIDGIN_DIR/$PIDGIN_PROTODIR/$FILENAME $KOPETE_DIR/$KOPETE_PROTODIR/$accnum/$num $CURRENT_DIR/history_import_kopete2pidgin.xslt fi done done done
- Make ~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin.sh executable
chmod +x ~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin.sh
- Create ~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin.xslt with this code:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text" indent="no" /> <xsl:template match="kopete-history"> <xsl:apply-templates select="msg"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="msg"> <xsl:text>(</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="translate(substring-after(@time,' '),':',',')"/> <xsl:text>) </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="@nick"/> <xsl:if test="not(@nick) or @nick = ''"> <xsl:value-of select="@from"/> </xsl:if> <xsl:text>: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
- Create ~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin_filename.xslt with this code:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text" indent="no" /> <xsl:template match="kopete-history"> <xsl:value-of select="head/contact[@type = 'myself']/@contactId"/> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="head/contact[not(@type)]/@contactId"/> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="head/date/@year"/> <xsl:text>-</xsl:text> <xsl:if test="head/date/@month < 10">0</xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="head/date/@month"/> <xsl:text>-</xsl:text> <xsl:if test="string-length(substring-before(msg[1]/@time,' ')) < 2">0</xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="translate(msg[1]/@time,' :','.')"/> <xsl:text>+0200EET.txt</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
- Execute the command in the shell
~/bin/history_import_kopete2pidgin.sh
Microphone
For the microphone to work in a non gnome WM, you must install gnome-media then run and configure gstreamer-properties
.