Gajim
Free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol
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Gajim /ɡɛˈʒiːm/[4] 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".[5]
| Gajim | |
|---|---|
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 Gajim main window (version 2.3.0) | |
| Developer | Gajim Developers |
| Initial release | May 21, 2004[1] |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
| Standard | XMPP |
| Available in | Multi language[3] |
| Type | Instant messaging client |
| License | GPL-3.0-only |
| Website | gajim |
| Repository | dev |
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 support[6] (removed since version 2.0.0 due to lack of maintainer[7])
- OMEMO encryption
- 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.[3]
Third-party plugins
Gajim supports various third-party plugins (official list).
