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Gajim
Free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol

Gajim /ɡɛˈʒiːm/ 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".

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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, OpenPGP and end-to-end encryption support
  • 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 support3 (using the "python-farstream" library, no support in Windows yet),4 FAQ says it's not supported yet, at least not under windows5
  • OMEMO encryption
  • 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.6

Third-party plugins

Gajim supports various third-party plugins (official list).

See also

  • Free and open-source software portal

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References

  1. Le Boulanger, Yann (2008-04-19). "pronunciation example of "Gajim"". Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2008-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030605/http://gajim.org/Gajim.ogg ↩

  2. Adam Overa (2009-10-19). "Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Communications Apps". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2022-02-12. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-communications,2431.html ↩

  3. Gajim 0.14 ChangeLog https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/blob/gajim_0.14/ChangeLog#L30 ↩

  4. "Gajim FAQ". Gajim Wiki. 16 April 2023. https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/wikis/help/gajimfaq ↩

  5. "gajimfaq · Wiki · gajim / gajim · GitLab". GitLab. 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2024-04-27. https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/wikis/help/gajimfaq ↩

  6. "Development page". Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170630162943/https://gajim.org/dev.php ↩