After my upgrade to KDE 4.4, I noticed that kopete’s facebook plugin was making kopete crash just when it connected to facebook. While looking for an updated version of the plugin I ran across this blog post from duncan mcvicar’s (one of the lead developers of kopete) explaining that there wasn’t a need for that plugin anymore since Facebook added XMPP support for their chat service this week. Now, you can use any jabber client to connect to Facebook’s chat. Duncan’s blog post is missing details about how to accomplish this so I’m going to explain how to setup your chat account here.
First, you need to assign a chat user name to your facebook account, you will not be using your email address for this. Go to your account settings and set it up. After you have done that you can create a jabber account on kopete. Use your new facebook username like this: username@chat.facebook.com :
Then configure the connection setting to not use TLS and allow plain text authentication:
And last, do not forget to disable jingle support as it only works with gmail/gtalk accounts:
That’s it, you now will be able to connect to facebook chat service from kopete and avoid opening a browser just for that.
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Hi promeneur,
I don't understand any of your comments, what they have to do with kopete or facebook ?
you speak about pb about kde 4.4.0
i speak about pb about kde 4.4.0
I don't understand what you mean with "pb", it's an abbreviation of "problems"? in that case which problems are you talking about I'm talking here? I just gave a little howto to get facebook chat going on Kopete, this post has nothing to do with KDE 4.4 per se.