

CenterIM supports ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, IRC, Live Journal and Gadu-Gadu. This is a fork of CenterICQ, a terminal-based client for popular IM protocols. Skype is closed-source and the official download page offers packages for all the major distributions out there. It features tabs, smileys, sound notifications, logging system.Īlthough Skype is renowned for being one of the most popular voice calls application, it also supports instant messaging, file transfers and webcam. KMess is a WLM client for KDE with support for notifications, message stacking, avatars, logging, chat styles, emoticons, mail integration.Īyttm is a graphical messaging application with support for Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, IRC and AIM. A full guide to Finch is located on the TuxArena Blog, here.Įmesene is yet another powerful WLM client for GNOME with support for plugins, themes, notifications, webcam, configurable interface. This means Finch supports all the protocols that Pidgin has support for, including Yahoo, WLM, IRC or Google Talk. Included in the Pidign package, Finch is a text user interface IM client which runs in a terminal and is based on libpurple, the same library Pidgin uses. Kopete is the default chat client in KDE, offering support for a all the popular protocols (including IRC), tray integration, notifications, multiple accounts, tabbed chat windows, smileys, logs, video support and plugins. Empathy features popup and sound notifications, smileys, spell-checking and themes. You will have to install specific Telepathy Connection Manager components in order to support all protocols e.g. This is yet another GNOME instant messaging client with support for Google Talk, MSN, IRC, Salut, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. Piding also comes with a basic IRC client, support for multiple accounts, logging, system tray integration, themes, plugins. This is the well-known IM client for the GNOME desktop environment with support for a wide variety of IM protocols, including AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo. The configuration options are abundant via the Account->Preferences menu. AMSN is a powerful, highly configurable and feature-rich client for the WLM (formerly known as MSN) protocol with support for skins, plugins, system tray integration, webcam, tabbed chat windows, multi-accounts, offline messaging, chat history, display picture and many, many more.
