Quick Guide to XMPP (jabber)
In this walkthrough we shall deal with how you might go about registering with and connecting to an XMPP server.
Get yourself a client
There are many to choose from, depending on your platform. Check out our Chat Clients page if you haven't already.
In this example, we shall use Gajim on Linux and windows The download page has good links for Installation instructions for many distributions. There is also an installer for Windows, and a guide for usge on MacOS.
Register an account somewhere
We shall use our server in this here.
- Click menu 'Accounts > Modify Account ...'
- Click 'Add Account' button
- Enter details as follows (the server is part of the username):
- Username:
<username>@chat.openworlds.info - Password:
<we recommend a passphrase, or use of a password manager>
- Username:
- Click 'Sign Up' button
- If you have an existing jabber account on another server, you can 'Log In' instead
Connect
Connection from this point on should be automatic. Feel free to explore the preferences and config, and adapt to your needs.
Further Gajim help
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/wikis/help/Help
Or more generally, the wiki itself.
Enable OMEMO (this is turned on by defult in the windows version so skip this)
OMEMO is used by Gajim (and some other clients) for end-to-end encryption. If required separately in your OS, make sure it gets installed as well.
- Open Gajim
- Goto menu 'Gajim > Plugins'
- Goto 'Available' tab
- Mark the OMEMO plugin for "Install"
- Click 'Install/Update' button
- Goto 'Installed' tab
- Activate 'OMEMO'
- Close to save the settings
- Restart Gajim (not sure if necessary)