Gajim

Gajim 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, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GPL-3.0-only license, Gajim is free software. A 2009 round-up of similar software on Tom's Hardware 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 GTK (PyGObject) as GUI library, which makes it cross-platform compatible. Some of its features:

• Group chat support
• Emojis, Avatars, File transfer
• Systray icon, Spell checking
• TLS and end-to-end encryption support with OMEMO, OpenPGP, OTR (with a plugin)
• Transport Registration support
• Service Discovery including Nodes
• Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
• Multiple accounts support
• D-Bus Capabilities
• XML Console
• Jingle voice and video support (removed since version 2.0.0 due to lack of maintainer)
• HTTP file upload
• Read markers
• Hats

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 various third-party plugins (official list).

See also

• Comparison of instant messaging clients

References

Reviews

• Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Review: Gajim Jabber client on Linux.com, September 16, 2005
• Mihai Marinof, Gajim Review. Free Jabber client for Linux. on Softpedia, 7 November 2006

External links

• Official wiki
• XMPP.org Compliance: Gajim