WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
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Pidgin Alternatives for Xfce
Pidgin is not available for Xfce but there are a few alternatives with similar functionality. The best Xfce alternative is WeeChat, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Pidgin and four of them are available for Xfce so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Xfce alternatives to Pidgin are Gajim, Finch and MCabber.
Alternatives list
54 WeeChat alternatives
63 Gajim alternativesThe goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use XMPP client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- Flathub
Gajim vs Pidgin Comments
Supports more XMPP features and has it already integrated in the base.
Pidgin needs a lot of plugin to have a similar support for features.
- Gajim is Free and Open Source
- Gajim is Privacy focused
Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, IRC, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and ncurses.
MCabber is a small XMPP (Jabber) console client. It includes features such as SASL/SSL/TLS support, MUC (Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion, OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support, dynamic modules and external action triggers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- Xfce
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It's a Jabber client only, not a multi-protocol / multi-channel chat client. Similar to Pidgin on it's root purpose can only by another multi-protocol client. Gajim is not.