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Developer(s)
  
Gajim Developers

Preview release
  
Git

Initial release
  
May 21, 2004

Written in
  
Python

Gajim

Stable release
  
0.16.6 (October 2, 2016; 5 months ago (2016-10-02)) [±]

Operating system
  
BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows

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 and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GNU General Public 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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Philosophy and features

The goal of the Gajim project is to provide a full-featured and easy to use XMPP client for GTK+ users. Gajim uses PyGTK as GUI library, so it does not require full GNOME to run, though it works nicely under a GNOME environment. Some of its features:

  • Tabbed chat windows
  • Group chat support (with MUC protocol)
  • Emoticons, Avatars, File transfer, URL grabber, Bookmarks
  • Systray icon, Speller
  • TLS, OpenPGP and end-to-end encryption support (OpenPGP not available under Windows until version 0.15), 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 and video support (using the "python-farstream" library, no support in Windows yet)

    • 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 OMEMO.

    • Security

    Up until late 2011, it was possible to forge a link such that when a receiving Gajim user clicks on it, arbitrary code would be executed on the Gajim user's machine.

    References

    Gajim Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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