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Does a gmail terminal chat client exist or anyway one can write it?
zubinmehta
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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Can we have a linux terminal chat client for gmail?
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Yes. Gmail uses the Jabber chat protocol which has been around for much longer than gchat and is supported by a number of open source command line chatting programs. One of my favorite terminal chat clients is Centericq which supports jabber along with many other chat protocol. It is ncurses based:
To connect to gchat use these settings:
Username: Your Google Talk username (without any @ symbol or domain information)
Password: Your password
Login Server: Enter the portion of your email address after the @ symbol. For example, gordon@example.com will enter example.com as the Login Server value.
Use SSL: Yes
Manually specify connection host: Yes
Host: talk.google.com
Port: 5223
Keep connection alive: Yes
Jarvin
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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Pidgin and Irssi also support jabber (and XMPP for facebook chat) – isomorphismes – 2012-11-01T08:03:34.530
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Part of the Pidgin IM client is a terminal based client called Finch. Take a look at the Using Finch page on the Pidgin wiki.
Doug Harris
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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Bitlbee provides an IRC interface to most of the common chat protocols. Mix with Irssi or your CLI IRC client of choice.
user46946
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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MCabber should also work just fine. It supports OTR also (which is crucial if we talk about Google and nowadays internet).
(MCabber is my favorite by the way. I tried all the alternatives but this seemed to be the best so far. It just works, it's just excellent.)
Apache
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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sudo apt-get install irssi-plugin-xmpp
kzh
Posted 2010-08-20T14:33:30.380
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Don't you already have it on the Gmail UI? – r0ca – 2010-08-20T14:47:28.947
Yes, I do. But I want to do it through terminal. – zubinmehta – 2010-08-20T15:27:14.227