NAME

       empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client

SYNOPSIS

       empathy

DESCRIPTION

       GNOME  multi-protocol  chat and call client Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file
       transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, MSN,  Google
       Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ.

       The main user interface consists of a contact list window and an icon in the notification area.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-connect
              Don't connect on startup

       -h, --start-hidden
              Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup

       -v, --version
              Show version

ENVIRONMENT

       EMPATHY_LOGFILE=filename
              If set, debug output will go to the given file rather than to stderr.

       EMPATHY_DEBUG=type
              May  be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options (which may change from
              release to release) to filter the output.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Laurent Bigonville ⟨bigon@debian.org⟩, for the  Debian  GNU/Linux  system
       (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       empathy-accounts(1),  The  Telepathy  project  ⟨http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/⟩,  The  Empathy project
       ⟨http://live.gnome.org/Empathy⟩.