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⟩.