Ubuntu – How to connect skype with Facebook

Unfortunately, Facebook does not support video calling on Ubuntu yet, as explained on the Facebook Help Center. They haven't developed their plugin yet.

However, video calling (popularly known as Hangouts) works on Google+, for example (after installing a plugin). If you are curious in upcoming technologies, you also can take a look at WebRTC.

The settings have changed recently.

open pidigin accounts and edit the facebook account to the following:

Protocol: XMPP

Username: xyz (This might not be the username that you enter at facebook login page - But the one which you see on your timeline link - https://www.facebook.com/xyz)

Domain: chat.facebook.com

Resource: Pidgin (this is what is missing most of the time)

Password: xyx

Local alias: xyz

On the advanced tab:

Connect port: 5222

Connect server: chat.facebook.com