New Technology : How To Use Facebook Messenger on Linux

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Pidgin is the Linux IM client with the most features; Facebook is the most popular social network. Lately, though, anyone using Pidgin to connect to Facebook’s chat feature has been seeing this error message: What’s going on? Facebook shut down XMPP compatibility back in April, and the instructions for integrating Facebook chat with Pidgin depended on that compatibility. Hence, many people who set up Pidgin with Facebook haven’t been able to chat with their “Friends” for some time now. Don’t panic: there is a plugin that uses the new Messenger API to connect Pidgin to Facebook. Here’s how it works,...

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