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I found an interesting project (skypathy)

what this project does is runs skype via empathy (sky-pathy)

with the help from a pidgin plugin that also works with empathy

pidgin-skype i installed everything like so



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skype-wrapper/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype skype-wrapper empathy pidgin-skype
sudo apt-get remove sni-qt


then run the skype first. then skype-wrapper give permissions and empathy
i am making an .desktop file but don't now how to start them all one after the other.
and the sudo apt-get remove sni-qt should remove my skype icon from the unity-panel bit it doesn't.this is how my .desktop file looks like



[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=skypathy
GenericName=IM Client
X-GNOME-FullName=Skypathy full Internet Messaging
Comment=Chat on Google Talk, Facebook, skype, MSN and many other chat services
Exec=skype skype-wrapper empathy
Icon=/home/USERNAME/Desktop/skypathy.png
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;InstantMessaging;


i also tried to change the "Exec=" to a scripts that runs the apps



skype && skype-wrapper && empathy


but when it runs skype it wont go to skype-wrapper until skype is closed same as when runnin skype-wrapper it wont go to empathy until skype-wrapper is closed



this is the icon i used (just for fun)http://i.stack.imgur.com/5G8RB.png


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You have to run it in the background. That is achieved using the single "&" character after a command:



(skype &
sleep 3
skype-wrapper &
sleep 5
empathy &)


The commands have to be separated by a new line character (unless someone else has a better idea).


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