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Wikipedia / 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).

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