Using Facebook chat with Kopete

I guess most of you know that the Facebook chat uses the XMPP protocol and you can add it as a Jabber account in Kopete. So for those who haven’t heard about it yet, a quick note how to configure Kopete.

First login to Facebook and visit http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php, click on Pidgin and have a look at the given details. Important is the Facebook user name.

Now open Kopete and the configuration dialog via Settings > Configure. Add a new account with Add account. Choose Jabber "XMPP, Jabber, Google Talk" and click Next. As Jabber ID add yourfacebookusername@chat.facebook.com and ofcourse enter your Facebook password. Unfortunately ssl is not possible so the rest of the configuration options can be left as default.

Click Finish and that’s it, you’re online on Facebook everytime, you are online with Kopete now. Be aware that this probably adds a lot new contacts to Kopete’s contact list .

This entry was written by neversfelde, posted on June 6, 2010 at 20:57, filed under Kubuntu and tagged Facebook, Jabber, KDE, Kopete, Kubuntu. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

Christian Mangold :: neversfelde