.TH EMPATHY "1" "February 2010" "Telepathy project" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
empathy \- GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client
.SH SYNOPSIS
empathy
.SH 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.
.PP
The main user interface consists of a contact list window and an icon in the
notification area.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-n ,\  \-\-no\-connect
Don't connect on startup
.TP
.BR \-h ,\  \-\-start\-hidden
Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup
.TP
.BR \-v ,\  \-\-version
Show version
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.BI EMPATHY_LOGFILE= filename
If set, debug output will go to the given file rather than to stderr.
.TP
.BI 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.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by
.MT bigon@debian.org
Laurent Bigonville
.ME ,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR empathy-accounts (1),
.UR http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
The Telepathy project
.UE ,
.UR http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
The Empathy project
.UE .