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Gajim is a full featured and easy to use XMPP client.

## Installation

Install one of the following:

- gajim - Latest release
- gajim-gitAUR - Latest commit to master

## Configuration

Gajim is a Graphical User Interface (GUI), all configuration is done through the interface under preferences, you can access this via the top left gajim drop down, and selecting preferences or using the `Ctrl+p` shortcut.

Within the Preferences menu, you can find the following configuration categories:

- General - General behaviour of the client, such as how it should behave when closed.
- Chats - General behaviour of chat windows, such as allowing you to disable status change notifications, or join/leave messages.
- Notification - General behaviour of notifications within the client, allowing you to enable/disable audible notifications.
- Status - General configuration of notifications, such as automatic status changes invoked by events such as inactivity for a certain period of time.
- Style - Configuration of the client theme.
- Audio/Video - Configuration of Audio and Video call support, such as NAT traversal and input devices (microphone and camera).
- Advanced - Settings aimed towards more advanced users, allowing purging of message history, changing client proxy settings, and enabling/disabling debug logging

### D-Bus remote control

To enable D-Bus remote control support, go to Advanced menu within Preferences and enable D-Bus Interface, then restart gajim.

### Show/hide roster

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If you would like to be able to show/hide the roster using a script or your window manager, you can use the following command:

    $ gajim-remote toggle_roster_appearance

It may be necessary to restart Gajim if this does not work.

### OMEMO support

OMEMO Multi-End Message and Object Encryption is an XMPP Extension Protocol (XEP) for secure multi-client end-to-end encryption. It is an open standard based on Axolotl and PEP and Gajim implemented it.

### Notification sounds

1. Install the gsound package.
2. Enable notification sound under Notifications within the Preferences menu, then enable the Play Sounds setting.

Tip: You can configure the sound, and when it is played under the settings icon next to Play Sounds, this will open a second menu where you can enable/disable what events invoke the sound, and pick the sound you want played when an event fires.

### Audio and video call support

To use Gajim's Audio / Video Call feature, install the optdepends with the "for video and audio calls" description.

### Minimize or close to tray

By default Gajim remains in the taskbar (for Docks) instead of minimizing to tray when closing it, to disable this behavior enable the hide_on_roster_x_button preference.

## Tips and tricks

### Save history of messages

If the Save of Message History is enabled, a file `~/.local/share/gajim/logs.db` is created. This is a SQLite database. (Open it with DB Browser for SQLite, install sqlitebrowser) To look for a message, first get the `jid_id` of the contact in table `jids`. Click on Tab "Search Data". Choose Table `jids`. Now click the tab "Run SQL" and run the statement

    SELECT time, kind, message FROM logs WHERE jid_id=(the jid_id from table jids) ORDER BY time ASC;

and click the run button. The result ist a list of your messages orderd by time (first message first, latest message at the bottom). The column `kind` shows if the message was sent (Code: 6) or received (Code: 4).

## Troubleshooting

### Fix dark theme

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When switching to dark mode in the Preferences does not work, set `gtk-theme-name=Adwaita` and `gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1` in `.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini`.

### Fix emojis

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Reason: Are noto emojis hardcoded? Or is this simply a case of user not having installed an emoji font? (Discuss in Talk:Gajim)

The emojis is Gajim require the Noto font. You need to install noto-fonts and noto-fonts-emoji to fix this.

## See also

- Official Gajim Documentation

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- XMPP

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