On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 18:07, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Telegram is my preferred IM. There is a Pidgin plugin and it works fine.
But can't be called from a script, AFAIK.
No, I don't think it can. But from this reply of yours, I have been able to gather some more info about what it is that you are trying to accomplish, and no, none of these are going to help you, I think.
There is telegram-desktop. I have first to pair that with the phone, it is not standalone. Then it works, as a duplicate of the phone. I don't know when it asks to be paired again. And would send the message to a different phone.
You can start with just a message SMSed to a phone. When I opened my T'gram account, I did not allow it on my phone at all, for some years.
I will have to try that pidgin plugin. I just had a look, I don't have such plugin. I can add accounts to Bonjour, Gadu-gadu, Google-Talk (huh?), GroupWise, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr.
Why "huh"? It was only turned off a month or 2 ago. Pidgin has many many plugins. Most are not in any distro's repos. You either get them from a build services, e.g. software.opensuse.org, or worse case, you download source and compile it. Pidgin is a bit stuck in the 1990s , and the bundled tools and plugins are old and not much use any more. But if you invest some effort it can talk to modern services. I previously used it to talk to Rocket.chat, Slack and Telegram as well as IRC, and then had just this one tiny tool in my system tray, taking only 150MB of RAM or so, delivering all my important notifications. Later on I just maxed out the RAM in my PC and ran Franz in the background. It eats several gig, but it works and it's easy. Messy, inefficient, but easy.
Signal is coupled to a phone number, so I guess the Linux client would be paired to the same number as the phone, would be the same account. Same as Telegram.
Correct. But you did not seem to know about it.
How would then I send a message from computer to phone?
It was not clear to me that you wanted to do that.
And it has to be from a script.
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