Multi-protocol IM clients

[Steven Stern]

On 08/30/2012 02:27 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
> Quoting Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>>> I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I change my
>>> status to
>>> "away" it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything
>>> until I
>>> close Pidgin and start it back up.
> [snip]>>
>>
>> you might  look at pidgin...
>>
> Umm... I think you missed in my original post where I said I tried it,
> but I have to shut it down and bring it back up if I want to set an
> "away" message and then come back and use it again. :D

As far as I know, the Big 2 are empathy and pidgin.  Both use libpurple,
so I guess it depends on where the lockup is occurring.

FWIW, I'm using pidgin with F17 / XFCE and have seen no lockups from it.

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-- Steve