How to configure Gtalk in Kopete

Almost everyone I know uses Gtalk. You can use Gtalk online through gmail or by using one of the many jabber capable chat clients out there.  Today I’ll show you how to configure Kopete to work with Gtalk. If you didn’t already know, Kopete is the most popular multi protocol chant client for KDE.

1. Launch Kopete and goto “Settings” > “Configure…”

2. Goto “accounts”

3. Click on “New”

4. Select “Jabber” from the account wizard and click “next”

5. On the “basic setup” page,

•  ”Jabber ID” is your gmail user ID followed by “gmail.com”. Example “john@gmail.com”
•  Check “remember password” and fill in your password.

6. On the “connection page”

• Check “use protocol encryption” (SSL)
• Check “allow plain text password authentication”
• Check “overide default server settings” and replace with the values below.
• Server : “talk.google.com”
• Port : “5223″

7. Click “Ok” and enjoy Gtalk through Kopete.

7 Responses to “How to configure Gtalk in Kopete”

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1. Zabeel says:

   March 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   I tried these settings in Kubuntu 7.10.. It gives an error “Host not found”

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2. Danny says:

   March 21, 2008 at 9:13 pm

   Zabeel, could you send me a screen shot of the error please.

   also can you ping talk.google.com?

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3. squirrel says:

   June 17, 2008 at 8:30 pm

   Hi, could you also explain settings for enabling file sending? my gtalk account works, but I can not receive/send files

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4. ganesh says:

   June 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm

   I done in the same way on my RHEL5 machine. It throughs an error message:

   SSL support could not be initialized for account XXXXXXXXX@gmail.com. This is most likely because the QCA TLS plugin is not installed on your system.

   Please help me out

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5. Danny says:

   June 26, 2008 at 11:24 pm

   Ganesh, this should help.

   http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Google+Talk+support

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6. Charlie says:

   December 18, 2008 at 6:58 am

   Thanks for this – Kopete is working perfectly now.

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7. 5aab says:

   September 24, 2009 at 4:20 am

   Excellent guide.

   thx.

   Reply