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dequis
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Hi I use purple-facebook (from debian package 20160920~b2f1230~66ee77378d82~116) as backend for spectrum2. Since the last update I receive the last messages of my contacts from time to time again.
When I go to the facebook page the messages are marked as seen.
Have you changed the default values for 'mark messages as read' and 'show unread messages'? If so, what values do they have?
No i haven't changed any default value... and please try to be spacific in where those values are located. . Thanks for your help :)
I don't know where they are located in spectrum, but those are their literal names when used from pidgin, in the account settings.
If no extra settings in the transport.cfg is set all default values are used. I have no extra settings specified in my config
Hmmm maybe 'mark as read' isn't working at all because it relies on conversation focus signals that don't exist in spectrum.
In which config file you mean exactly ? ... facebook.cfg for spectrum ? Or there is another config file somewhere in purple-facebook ?
@tomsaul ensure you don't have 'mark as read' disabled and 'show unread' enabled.
For those looking for these settings in Pidgin, they are under 'Accounts' / Facebook entry / Edit Account / Advanced.
In my case Mark messages as read is checked, and Show unread messages was also checked. When I get the message, I do read it, and even if I close the chat window, it will re-open it and present the last message(s) again a few times. I don't know what causes it to stop, or exactly the interval between each time. And FWIW - I just updated to the latest version - I think I had a build from Feb before. It has not done it since the update, but I also don't use FB chat much, so not a lot of opportunity yet.
Also experiencing this issue with latest versions, and have experienced it on and off since the new protocol came out. If a contact sends me messages overnight, I receive a second copy of all the messages about an hour after the first one was sent. But the timestamps all match the original message times. (So for example I see messages from 7:00, 7:01, 7:45, 8:01, then after that 7:00, 7:01, 7:45 and 8:01 again.) These messages (and their duplicates) are waiting for me in the Pidgin message window when I open it.
The Facebook app does not display these duplicate messages, so there must be some kind of ID involved so the app can detect when it has already received a message and so it does not display it a second time.
Since this happens just about every day for me, let me know if there are any logging steps I can perform that would help.
I was having the same problem. For me it happens in Finch when I am signed in on 2 computers at one time. If I am signed in at only 1 location the problem does not happen.
Oh, yeah, I remember something like that. It was about reusing access tokens, which can happen if you copy configs between computers. If you add a new account from scratch to the second client there shouldn't be any issues. That creates a new message queue. Those really aren't intended to be shared.
Thats me, the lazy linux admin who copies my ~/.fluxbox ~/bin and ~/.purple folders to new PCs. I will recreate the account on both systems. Thanks for the heads up.