TELEPATHY-HAZE(8)

💖 TELEPATHY-HAZE 💖 (section 8, D-Bus services, bestie)

okay so. telepathy-haze is a Telepathy connection manager that runs on libpurple. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-haze

yes bestie, that's the entire synopsis. it's giving minimalist queen 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ — Haze implements the Telepathy D-Bus specification using libpurple, which means Telepathy clients like empathy(1) can connect to literally any protocol that pidgin(1) supports. like, all of them. no cap. 🔥

it's a D-Bus service and it lives on the session bus, and normally it should just start itself automatically via D-Bus activation — it's a whole independent main character that doesn't need you to launch it 🌟

but (and this is the part you'll care about), starting it manually can lowkey be useful for debugging. so if you're in your detective era 🔍, go off.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

There are no command-line options.

not one. zero. nada. it's giving mysterious 🙈

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

the vibes are controlled entirely through environment variables, bestie. here's the lineup:

• HAZE_DEBUG=type — set this to "all" and you get full debug output, everything, the whole firehose 🔥. you can also set it to various undocumented options to filter the output instead — but heads up, those undocumented options may change from release to release, so don't get too attached. iykyk 💀
• HAZE_PERSIST=1 — if you set this, Haze will not automatically close itself after five seconds without any connections. so basically it stops being a ghost and actually sticks around. clingy (affectionate) 🫶
• HAZE_LOGFILE=filename — if you set this, all debugging output gets written to filename instead of to the terminal. perfect for when you want to hoard your logs like a dragon 🐉✨

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
• empathy(1)
• pidgin(1)

ngl, if you're debugging and nothing shows up, check your environment variables first. it's always the environment variables. always. 😭

and that's the page bestie!! this little gem is from the Telepathy crew, dated October 2007 🗓️, and it lives in section 8 under D-Bus services. iconic, historic, and still slaying 💖✨🎀