You must be mistaken about Empathy not supporting proxies, since it wouldn't have worked for me behind a firewall otherwise, but I was using it for a time (before upgrading to 11.10) with several outside resources like Google Talk and Facebook Chat. I'm also sure I didn't do any special steps to set it up.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878086 Title: Empathy doesn't seem to use system proxy settings after upgrading to 11.10 Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Upgrading to 11.10 from 11.04 has rendered Empathy unusuable for me since Empathy doesn't seem to use system proxy settings anymore, so connections to accounts fail. Other software like Chromium works correctly. I've double checked the proxy settings in System Settings -> Network -> Network proxy and also in dconf -> system -> proxy, and also in gconf-editor -> system -> proxy, and the everything seems correct. I also have the same problem with Pidgin and I've filed bug #878032 about it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/878086/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
