Use this tag for general questions regarding natural text information exchange as it takes place between people in chat rooms, for example on /irc channels, or over mobile phones using text messages. For 'chat', the automated conversational script with a modem, use /chat-command. For general information exchange between devices, the tag /protocols is more appropriate.
Questions tagged [chat]
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Is there a way to communicate with someone at their desktop?
My wife is sitting at her home desktop, alpha, which is running a recent version of Ubuntu. I am on a bus, using ConnectBot on my G1 phone, and can SSH into alpha from wherever I am.
For complicated reasons, I cannot use IM, email, or the telephone…
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True P2P chat client?
Does a true P2P chat client exist for Linux? If it does exist, can someone please provide a link?
I have tried searching for such a client, but haven't had any luck yet. Ideally the client will work on debian and/or debian based systems.
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How can I get irssi-proxy to send me missed mentions when I connect?
I have an irssi session running in my VPS. I connect to it via irssi-proxy using Xchat on my laptop or Andchat on my Android phone. Is there any way I can make it send all messages containing my nick since my last proxy connection to my client when…
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talkd doesn't print a message
I wanted to use talk with my brother (we both have Debian Jessie). So I installed inetutils-inetd, inetutils-talk, and inetutils-talkd. Now I wanted to try whether it works. So I created a testuser named foo. Then I logged in as this user and as my…
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Easy voice talk between 2 computers in 2 countries?
My plan is to enable 2 sets of unsophisticated users (children and their grandparents) in 2 different countries to talk easily. In practice I see it as:
A quiet Linux computer is on all the time in both places.
The user at one computer should be…
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Chat from one system to another in a terminal
I would like send a chat message (like mail chat) between two systems, the systems are inter-connected proxy IP.
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Application for Facebook Chat
Is there a native Linux application which allows chatting on Facebook Chat? A feature which I particularly require is being able to chat in conversations which include multiple people.
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Linux client that can communicate with NetMeeting
Are there any NetMeeting compatible softwares for Linux environments?
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How can I talk with my acquaintance on Linux Cinnamon
One of my acquaintances uses Linux Mint with the Cinnamon Desktop.
We would like to talk each other via Skype, but we realized that Skype is not supported on Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop. We have searched for a solution, but we found only…
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Google chat video - Fedora / Google Chrome
The webcam is working, because I can see me with the "Cheese" app.
I installed: google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm.
Then I opened Chrome, and this is what I see:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUopi.png
The webcam part is black. What can I do, so…
The webcam part is black. What can I do, so…
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(IP Telephony, VoIP and Video Conferencing) Ekiga configuration for LAN with same subnet
I am looking for an Open Source Voice Chat Application, like Skype, but within an isolated intranet (no Internet is available). Is there any application which can run on Scientific Linux or CentOS?
Client-Server will be OK, but our need is Client…
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How to install aMSN on Scientific Linux?
I can't find aMSN in the Scientific Linux 6 repositories.. How can I install it?
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Is it possible with Quassel to tell it not to join a channel at its startup
Quassel has both a distributed core-client as well as monolithic core+client IRC client. I am using the monolithic one.
[$] aptitude search quasse …
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Chat application for monitoring with scripts
I am looking for a chat application, which would have the ability to interact with a shell script. I need this for a home project.
An example of usage: A client sends a chat message to a server. It analyzes the incoming message and takes an action…
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program for PC-to-phone using Gtalk?
I know I can configure empathy to voice chat between gmail users. But is it possible to make PC-to-phone voice calls with empathy or do I have to use Google's browser plugin?
Does any program support both things? (The point being that I would much…
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