Re: [orca-list] OT: Is purple-facebook constantly reconnecting&not showing online FB contacts for everyone else?

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

I am using it for quite some time now.
The only problem I face is distantly related to your's
What happens in that on a slow internet connection, I either never see 
the active friends, or if at all I see them through Orca, Pidgin 
disconnects and I have to connect again.  The way this plugin works is 
that as soon as Pidgin starts it asks for fb password as if you are on a 
super fast Internet connection.
Then it takes it's own sweet time to connect or some times does not 
connect at all.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.



On Friday 28 August 2015 12:51 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> As the subject says this is OT, but as many people do depend on pidgin for their chatting I hope folks will 
> forgive my question.
> I installed the purple-facebook plug-in from the arch aur when we first stasrted talking about it here, and a 
> couple weeks later put it on a Ubuntu box.
> I'd not used pidgin much if at all after installing the first
>   plug-in on arch, so things might have broken at any time after that, but I did not notice till I tried it 
> on vinux5 nightly build based on ubuntu
> trusty.
> The plug-in is useless the way its working for me. It reconnects every minute or so, and online contacts 
> never get shown, or if they do they go away so
> fast that orca never lets me see them. Old chat tabs reopen, and no matter how many times I close them keep 
> reopening with each reconnection.
> I saw nothing in the comments on the wiki for this plug-in, so it must be working better for most people.
> What's going on with this.
> There have been several updates since I installed this plug-in, and last I checked there were no issues with 
> the bitlbee plug-in that I thik is made by
> the same dev.
>