dmg file from pidgin-macosx on Sourceforge, and double click on the Pidgin application. One-step simple way: All you have to do is download the. And maybe I can take a little credit for small improvements here and there, and nagging people into making certain changes :-)) (And of course, the Pidgin developers for writing Pidgin, and Richard Hult from Imendio AB for GTK+OSX. Installing Pidgin on Mac OS X is now as simple as installing any other Mac OS X application, thanks to a train of effort from many people, starting with Anders Hasselqvist (“nevil”) for writing the patch with the gtkstatusicon implementation, Thomas Reifferscheid (reiffert) for including it on MacPorts, and finally Albert Zeyer for building it with Xcode and the GTK framework and making a. This is very simple to do and requires only one step, described below. Install Pidgin to run on the Mac desktop directly (without X11), using native GTK+ for Mac OS X and some minor modifications to Pidgin.It is cumbersome, and I would not recommend it unless you are already doing much of your work inside X11 for some reason. However, using an X11 app on OS X is really like entering another universe entirely… it’s like having two entirely disjoint OSes that just happen to run simultaneously. Any default distribution of Pidgin should build fine on this, as long as you have all the dependencies installed. On the other hand, if you, like me, have tried Adium and have reasons for finding it unusable, then it is possible to install Pidgin on OS X too. Being a native Cocoa application, it is more well-integrated with the Mac desktop than a GTK-using application like Pidgin can ever be. It has several popular features such as message styles, and uses the Cocoa API native to Mac OS X, and all round looks pretty. By clicking on the plus sign in the bottom left corner, you can now add new contacts.So you’re on Mac OS X, and want to use Pidgin on it.įirst: Why not use Adium? Adium is a Free multi-protocol IM client for Mac OS X that uses libpurple, the IM library that was developed as part of Pidgin. If you check the account settings, it should display the note “TLS enabled”.Īfter the connection with is completed, Messages opens the contact list. Switch your account status to “Available”. Activate the option “Automatically find server and port”. As a workaround, open Preferences → Accounts, select your account and click on “Server settings”. If SSL is activated during setup, the connection to the server will fail. With OS X Yosemite, there is a bug concerning SSL. Under “Server Options”, specify the server “”, enable SSL and confirm with “Create”. In both cases, select “Other messages account” and continue.Īfter selecting “Jabber”, enter your GWDG username as and your password. With the plus sign under “Accounts”, the window for adding new accounts opens. When the program is started for the first time, a window to set up a new account opens automatically.Īlternatively, in the “Messages”’ menu bar, select “Preferences”. The set up of Messages and iChat is essentially the same. With Mac OS X 10.8 or later, the program “Messages” can be used with any Jabber account. Like Adium, iChat also supports multiple instant messaging providers including accounts from Jabber, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, and MobileMe. In contrast to Adium, you also have the possibility to use video chats via the Jabber account. Apple's iChat has been supplied with Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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