Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Use empathy and setup the accounts to auto-login. Also you need to be
"available" to be online. If you are "unavailable" the telepathy backend
won't login to the accounts setup in Empathy.


On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 21:36 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> I never used Instant Messaging so far, but now with gnome3 I see the
> screenshots of notifications within gnome shell and the somehow
> integrated chatting.
> 
> But I have no idea how to get there on my desktop.
> 
> I have the full gnome ebuild installed, got some gmail and icq account
> within pidgin or empathy but somehow I don't get it.
> 
> Feels stupid ;-)
> 
> Could someone get me started on this?
> I googled quite a while already but didn't get very far ...
> 
> Maybe I am missing something somewhere, I had gnome-light before and
> upgraded to full gnome 3 a few weeks before.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers, Stefan