Configuring KDE’s Kopete for Google Talk
Now that Google Talk is live and is a Jabber service the next question is - how do I connect to it using the KDE Instant Messaging client Kopete ?
It’s dead easy - it’s just another Jabber server with the only restriction that you *must* connect to it via SSL.
So, what you need to do is:
- Go to the
Settings -> Configure Kopetemenu option; - Start the new account wizard with the
Newbutton there; - Click
Nextat the welcome screen to start creating a new account; - Select Jabber as your account type and press
Next; - Enter your Google Mail email address as your
Jabber ID; - Click on the
Connectiontab at the top; - Tick the
Use Protocol Encryption (SSL)option; - Tick the
Override the default server informationoption; - Enter
talk.google.comas your server; - If you are behind a restrictive firewall you can set the port number to 443 (normally used for secure websites)
- You should now have a screen that looks like the image at the end of this article.
At that point you should be ready to hit Next to create the Google Talk Jabber account in Kopete!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Thank you my friends
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Additionally, I had to change the port number to 443 to get working within our firewall settings.
February 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
thanks jaya..for that information..
I got tired to figure out why my kopete was not getting connected using port no. 5223. Used 443, as firewall was blockign the same.
thanks..
February 10th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Just confirmed that works for me too, I’ll add an update to the story.
Thanks Jaya and Manish!
February 21st, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Good to know my comment was useful
Anyone tried using voice chat using these settings? I could not get it work on Kopete. Tried using Tapioca, but it doesn’t work within firewall.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Not a problem Jaya!
As for voice - my version of Kopete here (using the latest KDE 3.5.6 packages from Kubuntu) doesn’t support that..
I know it’s supposed to be possible, but haven’t got there yet!
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Mine is still 3.5.5 and Kopete-0.12.3
I read somewhere that, you may need to compile Kopete from source
enabling jingle option to get voice support. I did not try that yet.
Jaya
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
> Mine is still 3.5.5 and Kopete-0.12.3
Aha…
> I read somewhere that, if you may need to compile Kopete from source
> enabling jingle option to get voice support. I did not try that yet.
Yup, that’s right. I think at one point there was a package that included
Jingle support but it crashed when I tried it out.
There was actually a suggestion for the Google Summer of Code this year to
improve Jingle integration, but I don’t think it got up..
So I don’t think it’s enabled in the default builds of Kopete.