EMPATHY(1)							   User Commands							EMPATHY(1)

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, Groupwise,
       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 undocumented 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)