How to use Kopete to chat in Google Talk
Friday, October 27th, 2006Gtalk is a windows applications. In Linux you can use a generic Jabber client; My Kde IM client is kopete.
You can configure kopete for this in few simple steps:
| 1) Run kopete |
| 2) Click menu “settings”>”Configure” |
| 3) Click “Accounts” > “New…” |
| 4) Select Jabber protocol |
| 5) Insert yuour “username@gmail.com” in JabberID |
| 6) Check Remember password and insert your password in the pass field |
| 7) In the Connection tab, check: - Use protocol encryption SSL - Allow plain-text password authentication - Override default server information and fill server field with “66.102.11.125″ or “gtalk.google.com” and port “5223″ |
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| Press the Lightbulb to connect! |