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Gajim

Gajim is a free software, instant messaging client for the Jabber (XMPP) protocol which uses the GTK+ toolkit. It runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows. The name Gajim is a recursive acronym for Gajim (is) a jabber instant messenger.

The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

Gajim features

Gajim supports the following features :

  • Tabbed chat windows
  • Group chat support (with MUC protocol)
  • Emoticons, Avatars, File transfer, URL grabber, Bookmarks
  • Systray icon, Speller
  • TLS and OpenPGP support (the latter not available under Windows), including SSL legacy support
  • Transport Registration support
  • Service Discovery including Nodes
  • Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
  • Multiple accounts support
  • D-Bus Capabilities
  • XML Console

Gajim is available in the following languages : Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Slovak and Swedish.

Network features

Gajim is a Jabber client and Jabber allows transports to other services, which many servers support. So Gajim can also connect to the Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ and .NET Messenger Service networks, which is a great advantage for an open source application. Other services available using gateway servers, include RSS and Atom news feeds, sending SMS messages to cellular networks and weather reports. Last but not least you can be connected more than once with an account with differents resources and priorities. For example, you can be connected at home with resource "At Home" and priority 5, and when you are at work you can be connected with resource "At Work" and priority 7 to get your messages at work.

Installing Gajim

Gajim can be found at the Ubuntu Universe repository, so you can simply install package gajim from the Universe repository using your favorite method. If you need help about installing a package read the following InstallingSoftware.

Setting up Gajim

After installation Gajim can be found to start at Applications -> Internet -> Gajim Instant Messenger.

On the first time you start up Gajim the Account Creation Wizard Dialog will come up, which will guide you to either create a new account to connect to the jabber network or use an existing one, if you have.

So if this is your first time in the jabber network select the option for registering for a new account, choose one of the numerous jabber servers available that offers you the services you need (check out [http://www.jabber.org/network/oldnetwork.shtml jabber.org] for that) and simply give a username and password. You are now connected!

You can always add a new account at Edit -> Accounts -> New

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