Gajim

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]

Not to be confused with Gaim.
Gajim
Developer(s)Gajim Developers
Initial releaseMay 21, 2004[1]
Stable release
1.8.0[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 27 May 2023
Repositorydev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim
Written inPython
Operating systemBSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Available inMulti language[3]
TypeInstant messaging client
LicenseGPL-3.0-only
Websitegajim.org

Features
Gajim Screenshot.Discover services. Server info: https://xmpp.jp/ and https://404.city/

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 (OpenPGP not available under Windows until version 0.15),[6]
  • 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[7] (using the "python-farstream" library, no support in Windows yet)[8]
  • 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.[3]

Third-party plugins

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

See also

References
  1. ChangeLog
  2. "Gajim 1.8.0". Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  3. Development page
  4. Le Boulanger, Yann (2008-04-19). "pronunciation example of "Gajim"". Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  5. Adam Overa (2009-10-19). "Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Communications Apps". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  6. GitLab from gajim: gpg.exe on Windows OS in Gajim, gnupg on win32
  7. Gajim 0.14 ChangeLog
  8. "Gajim FAQ". Gajim Wiki. 16 April 2023.

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