New Stable Release Of Linux MSN App ‘Emesene’ Available

By , Published November 13, 2011

Emesene, the popular MSN-styled messaging client, has a new stable release available for download.

The update fixes several issues, including a recent connection issue caused by changes to the MSN service.

New Stuff

Aside from the connection issue, there is a lot more to find in this release, including: -

Improved Google Talk and Facebook chat support (you’ll need python-xmpp installed to use it):-

An improved plugin/theme download system: -

Unread message badge on Unity Launcher (Ubuntu 11.10 only):

emesene message badge in ubuntu

How to install Emesene 2.11.11 in Ubuntu

The Emesene Stable PPA provides packages for Ubuntu 10.04 through 11.10.

To install/upgrade to Emesene 2.11.11 first add the following PPA to your Software Sources: -

ppa:emesene-team/emesene-stable

 After adding open Update Manager and check for updates. If you already have Emesene installed an option to upgrade will appear.

If you don’t yet have Emesene installed you can install it from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

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  • Anonymous

    does it integrate with the gnome shell notifications and chat like empathy?

    does it support Gtalk video calls?

    • Omer Akram

      “MSN app”
      gnome-shell :-O

      • Anonymous

        i just woke up , and i didn’t get your point.
        coffee needed!

        • Anonymous

          Does empathy still work for you for msn?

          • Anonymous

            it has stopped working.  due to a change in the messenger servers lately .

            But you can stiil get it to work. check the folowing link to have msn working again.

            http://askubuntu.com/questions/76948/problems-connecting-msn-with-empathy

          • Anonymous

            It didn’t work for kopete (I use Kubuntu)…

          • Anonymous

            @Rob_van_Bobbert:disqus   ask a question on askubuntu, specifying you are using kopete. i’m sure there is a fix for that also…

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

            seems to be fixed in papyon 0.5.6

    • Anonymous

      anyway, installed tried.
      no multi account support. just one at a time.
      no video
      and no gnome shell integration.

      sticking with empathy

  • Eldar Andvik

    I get:

    W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9D63EE0836DFE71C

    How do i add the key?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

      Either manually download it and add it (long winded) or just remove the PPA from Software Sources then add it via the Terminal (will automatically grab the key)

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:emesene-team/emesene-stable

      • Anonymous

        yeap another bug ;/

        guess we will never get away from the terminal lol

  • Anonymous

    How do I get facebook chat to work? I get connection error. Yes I’ve installed python-xmpp

  • Anonymous

    I think it isn’t possible to be online in MSN- and GoogleTalk -accounts at the same time in Emesene? If so, no Emesene for me. In Pidgin that is possible, so i’m gonna stick with it. 

    • Anonymous

      you are right. no multiple accounts at the same time.

    • Anonymous

      why not ask for the feature?

      https://github.com/emesene/emesene/issues

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

        Not going to happen, it’s against the design

    • http://2buntu.com Roland Taylor

       Emesene is (and always has been) a single protocol at a time client. They added support for XMPP chat because most of the developers use Jabber instead of MSN.

    • Carlos Morales

      Well,  you can have 2 instances of the program running, 1 for each service. It may be weird, but it works. I prefer Pidgin, though; emesene started working like crap since they changed to 2.X

      • Anonymous

        Thanks, Carlos. It’s good to know.

  • Anonymous

    Not multi-threaded, connection issues let hang the whole application
    Not compliant with interface design conventions like the Gnome HIG, looks clumsy and disproportional
    No support for multiple accounts logged in at the same time
    Confusing plug-in system, app settings scattered around plug-ins
    No video/audio call
    Custom emoticons render oddly

    Even though Empathy supports barely more MSN functionality than text and audio call, I prefer it way above this.

    Emesene = nopenopenope

    • http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels

      Indeed. Well, Emesene used to be better a few years ago, but it’s not like it used to anymore nowadays. I find KMess the best, but it doesn’t work anymore in 11.10 and upstream is dead. Devs are not contactable anymore, no updates on Git either.

  • Justas Belevičius

    is there any screenshots without the green bird icon :D

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      Shhh, shuddup, mods might ban you :O

  • Flavio Reis

    I have Xubuntu here and did this operacion and now it’s works.  Good job. Thanks

    F. Reis  Bahia/Brazil

  • Tariq Fayiz

    Good…..

  • André Steinn

    Since emesene 2, there’s a bug, I don’t send/receive some messages, this happen in the middle of the conversation, the connection just “close”, I can’t sent the message to the user anymore and he can’t send me…
    I mean, he can, but I don’t receive.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      I believe that issue is only with the official Mac Messenger and Emesene specifically

  • Christopher Khoury

    not working with msn !!! it has been signing in for 15 minutes :/ 

  • Fernando J. Lardo

    Well, for me Pidgin + msn-pecan it’s the best option. I mean, empathy uses telepathy-butterfly/haze which is the wrapper for libpurple so…; Anyways, none of all the free/libre clones for msn seems to have fully working audio/video calls, if anyone knows would be great to post it here.

    • Anonymous

      Just tested msn-pecan in 11.10 on pidgin 2.10.0 and when I attempt to enable my new WLM account, it just gets disabled after a second. Any ideas?

  • Anonymous

    What? No webcam support? Is there any messenger available with full support for webcam and MSN chat?

    • Anonymous

      aMSN probably. Ugly as hell but it works (or at least did on the odd occasions I used it). Haven’t tested in a while

      • http://twitter.com/Daan1101 Daan De Weerdt

        Ugly indeed :) but never had any problems with it when I used it before I switched to Pidgin.
        I remember it having webcam support but no multi-account support though…

        And holy crap the project is still active :D

      • Anonymous

        Tested aMSN with MSN chat, no webcam support too. I think it happened due to Microsoft changes in MSN messages protocol.

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