Gajim is an

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client Client(s) or The Client may refer to: * Client (business) * Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer * Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuabl ...

for the

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), i ...

protocol which uses the

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...

toolkit. The name Gajim is a

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for ''Gajim's a jabber instant messenger''. Gajim runs on

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, BSD,

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, and

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. Released under the GPL-3.0-only license, Gajim is

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. A 2009 round-up of similar software on

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found version 0.12.1 "the lightest and fastest jabber IM client".

Features

Gajim aims to be an easy to use and fully-featured XMPP client. Gajim uses

PyGTK PyGTK is a set of Python wrappers for the GTK graphical user interface library. PyGTK is free software and licensed under the LGPL. It is analogous to PyQt/ PySide and wxPython, the Python wrappers for Qt and wxWidgets, respectively. Its ...

as GUI library, which makes it cross-platform compatible. Some of its features: * Group chat support (with MUC protocol) * Emojis, Avatars, File transfer * Systray icon, Spell checking *

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and end-to-end encryption support (OpenPGP not available under

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until version 0.15), * Transport Registration support * Service Discovery including Nodes * Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup * Multiple accounts support *

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Capabilities *

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Console *

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voice and video support (using the "python-farstream" library, no support in Windows yet) *

OMEMO OMEMO is an extension to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for multi-client end-to-end encryption developed by Andreas Straub. According to Straub, OMEMO uses the Double Ratchet Algorithm "to provide multi-end to multi-end enc ...

* HTTP file upload Gajim is available in Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian and others.

Third-party plugins

Gajim supports third-party plugins. Examples include: * Gajim-OMEMO, adding support for

References

Reviews * Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeie
Review: Gajim Jabber client
on Linux.com, September 16, 2005 * Mihai Marinof
Gajim Review. Free Jabber client for Linux.
on

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, 7 November 2006

External links

*
Official wiki

* Unofficia
XMPP/Jabber clients and OS usage statistics (5)
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Lucas Nussbaum
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Features

Third-party plugins

See also

References

External links