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I’m so sick of pidgin . . . all I ever wanted was a jabber client that fits nicely into my gnome environment – no icq/google-talk/msn all-in-wonder instant messenger. Just xmpp aka jabber. The rest is done by transports on the jabber server. Gajim would be the app of choice if it didn’t drop otr-support – which it did right on my birthday last year – thanks for that. Today I looked for an alternative – which now seems to be gajim WITH otr-support. Took some time but got it working. The package I build with checkinstall can be found here:

gajim-otr_0.12.1_amd64.deb.

You will need some extra packages for security:

sudo apt-get install python-openssl python-crypto python-otr

After starting gajim you should check wether otr is fully activated by looking at Help->Features in the gajim menu bar. Then you have to create an otr-fingerprint by going to Edit->Preferences and there switch to the OTR Settings tab. Select your jabber server in the drop-down menu and klick on “Generate”. When the pop-up window adds a “done” to its text you can close it (took me a while to realise the additional “done” when it had finished). Attempting a conversation with an otr-enabled peer will add an otr-sign next to your edit-line in the chat window. You can verify the fingerprints in the otr-preferences tab (and there in the “Known Fingerprints” tab).

Happy messaging . . .

I'm so sick of pidgin . . . all I ever wanted was a jabber client that fits nicely into my gnome environment - no icq/google-talk/msn all-in-wonder instant messenger. Just xmpp aka jabber. The rest is done by transports on the jabber server. Gajim would be the app of choice if it didn't drop ...