Gajim

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Gajim

Gajim


Gajim 0.11.1's Main Window
Developer:	Gajim Developers
Stable release	Template:LSR
Written in:	Python
Genre:	Instant messaging client
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	http://gajim.org/

Not to be confused with Gaim.

Gajim (pronounced /gɛˈʒɪm/^[1]) is an instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the GTK+ toolkit. The name Gajim is a recursive acronym for Gajim's a jabber instant messenger.

Gajim runs on Linux, BSD and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GNU General Public License, Gajim is free software.

1 Mission
2 Features
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Mission

The goal of the Gajim project is to provide a full-featured and easy to use XMPP client for GTK+ users. Gajim does not require GNOME to run, though it works nicely under a GNOME environment.

[edit] 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),^[2] 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
Jingle voice support is currently under active development^[3]

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