gajim - Man Page

a fully-featured XMPP chat client

Synopsis

gajim -h

gajim --show

gajim --start-chat

gajim [-q] [-v] [-w] [-l subsystem=level] [-p name] [-s] [-c directory] [--gdebug] [--cprofile]

Description

gajim aims to be an easy to use and fully-featured XMPP client. Just chat with your friends or family, easily share pictures and thoughts or discuss the news with your groups. Chat securely with End-to-End encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP. gajim integrates well with your other devices: simply continue conversations on your mobile device.

XMPP is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middle- ware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data. For more information on the XMPP protocol see https://xmpp.org/about/.

Options

-h,  --help

Show help options

-V,  --version

Show the application’s version

-q,  --quiet

Show only critical errors

-s,  --separate

Separate profile files completely (even history database and plugins)

-v,  --verbose

Print XML stanzas and other debug information

-p,  --profile=NAME

Use defined profile in configuration directory

-c,  --config-path=PATH

Set configuration directory

-l,  --loglevel=SUBSYSTEM=LEVEL

Configure logging.

SUBSYSTEM e.g. gajim.c.m

LEVEL (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL)

Example: gajim.c.m=DEBUG

-w,  --warnings

Show all warnings

--gdebug

Sets an environment variable so GLib debug messages are printed

--cprofile

Profile application with cprofile

--start-chat

Start a new chat

--show

Show Gajim

Files

$XDG_CACHE_HOME/gajim/

The directory for cached data.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gajim/

The directory where settings and configurations are stored.

$XDG_DATA_HOME/gajim/

The directory where all persistent data, e.g. the message database, is stored.

Bugs

Please submit bugs at https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues.

Support

You are welcome to join us at xmpp:gajim@conference.gajim.org?join.

Authors

Philipp Hörist, Daniel Brötzmann, Yann Leboulanger.

Referenced By

gajim-remote(1).

August 2022 Manual