Pidgin
Chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
https://pidgin.im/about
macOS: http://adium.im
Telegram support:
https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/blob/master/README.md
Usage
First Login
The username is your current phone number, including your full country prefix. For Germany, this would be '+49', resulting in a user name like '+49151123456'. Telegram will verify your phone number by sending you a code via SMS. You will be prompted for this code, once that happens.
Buddy List
Like in the official Telegram apps, the displayed buddy list consists of all active conversations.
Foreign Users
Foreign users, like for example people you only know through a group chat but never had any conversation with, will not be part of your buddy list by default. You can add those users to the buddy list by clicking on "Add contact..." in the users context menu.
Using secret chats
You can use Telegram secret chats with this plugin, they will show up as a new buddy with a '!' in front of the buddy name.
One caveat of secret chats in Telegram is that they can only have one endpoint, this is a limitation of the protocol. This means that if you create a secret chat in Pidgin you will not be able to use that chat on your phone. You will be asked whether to accept each secret chat, so you can always choose to accept the chat on a different device if you want. You can set a default behavior for dealing with secret chats (Accept or Decline) in the account settings, if you don't want that prompt to appear every time.
Self destructive messages will be ignored, since I don't know any way to delete them from the conversation and the history.
Confirming the key authenticity
Click on the buddy in the buddy list and click on "Show Info" to visualize the key fingerprint.
Initiate secret chats
To initiate a secret chat from Pidgin, click on a Buddy in the Buddy List and hit "Start Secret Chat"
Deleting secret chats
If you delete a secret chat from the buddy list, it will be terminated and no longer be usable.
Unicode Emojis for Pidgin
The Telegram phone applications for iOS and Android make use of standardized Unicode smileys (called Emojis). Pidgin does not display those smileys natively, but you can install a custom smiley theme like (https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji) or (https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin) and activate it under Settings > Themes > Smiley Theme.
📡 @Libreware
#pidgin #im #messaging #telegram
Chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
https://pidgin.im/about
macOS: http://adium.im
Telegram support:
https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/blob/master/README.md
Usage
First Login
The username is your current phone number, including your full country prefix. For Germany, this would be '+49', resulting in a user name like '+49151123456'. Telegram will verify your phone number by sending you a code via SMS. You will be prompted for this code, once that happens.
Buddy List
Like in the official Telegram apps, the displayed buddy list consists of all active conversations.
Foreign Users
Foreign users, like for example people you only know through a group chat but never had any conversation with, will not be part of your buddy list by default. You can add those users to the buddy list by clicking on "Add contact..." in the users context menu.
Using secret chats
You can use Telegram secret chats with this plugin, they will show up as a new buddy with a '!' in front of the buddy name.
One caveat of secret chats in Telegram is that they can only have one endpoint, this is a limitation of the protocol. This means that if you create a secret chat in Pidgin you will not be able to use that chat on your phone. You will be asked whether to accept each secret chat, so you can always choose to accept the chat on a different device if you want. You can set a default behavior for dealing with secret chats (Accept or Decline) in the account settings, if you don't want that prompt to appear every time.
Self destructive messages will be ignored, since I don't know any way to delete them from the conversation and the history.
Confirming the key authenticity
Click on the buddy in the buddy list and click on "Show Info" to visualize the key fingerprint.
Initiate secret chats
To initiate a secret chat from Pidgin, click on a Buddy in the Buddy List and hit "Start Secret Chat"
Deleting secret chats
If you delete a secret chat from the buddy list, it will be terminated and no longer be usable.
Unicode Emojis for Pidgin
The Telegram phone applications for iOS and Android make use of standardized Unicode smileys (called Emojis). Pidgin does not display those smileys natively, but you can install a custom smiley theme like (https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji) or (https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin) and activate it under Settings > Themes > Smiley Theme.
📡 @Libreware
#pidgin #im #messaging #telegram
www.pidgin.im
About
Pidgin is a universal chat client, allowing you to consolidate all your different messaging apps into a single tool.