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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)