I have a lot of friends and family on facebook. And facebook has a nice chat function, but the problem is that its only giving off a small sound when someone types to me and i usually dowt have the facebook up so I usually misset. But during the week I came a cross a site talking about how to access facebook from any XMPP or Jabber enabled chat client. And as Kopete can use that I set it up and it works very nice.

So here are the instructions:

Start by going onto facebook, login as usuall and go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php

There you can click on Other Windows/Mac/Linux.

And you will get a popup shoing you the login, and other information you need.

Open up Kopete and Click “Settings” in the top menu and then click “Configure”.

Click on “Accounts”, and then click “Add Account…”

Select “Jaber (XMPP, Jabber, Google talk)” from the list of services. Then click on next.

Use the Jabber ID you got from the chat page, and type it into the Jabber ID field.

Click on Remember Password and type in your normal Facebook password. Then click on next.

Under Connection preferences, leave all three options unchecked.

ANd no clikc on OK and you should be able to connect.

Be warned that you will see all you facebook friends so it might give you a lot of new persons in kopete.