Gajim | |
Logo Alt: | Gajim Logo |
Developer: | Gajim Developers |
Released: | May 21, 2004[1] |
Programming Language: | Python |
Operating System: | BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
Standard: | XMPP |
Language: | Multi language[2] |
Genre: | Instant messaging client |
License: | GPL-3.0-only |
Gajim [3] 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".[4]
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:
Gajim is available in Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian and others.
Gajim supports various third-party plugins (official list).
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