gtmess

(c) 2002-2011 by George M. Tzoumas

Page last modified on Mar 17, 2015
Latest client version is 0.97 (Dec 21, 2011)

NEWS
[Oct 3, 2014]	source code with history uploaded to github, latest version (not yet released) always there, official releases still through SourceForge
[Jan 15, 2013]	MSN may soon become deprecate, I'm considering adding XMPP support ;)
[Dec 21, 2011]	gtmess-0.97 released

Welcome to the homepage of the gtmess messenger client; a console MSN Messenger client for Linux and other unix systems (bsd, macos, solaris, irix, etc.) that conform to the POSIX standard.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Features

supports MSNP12 protocol version
detection of users that login as Appear Offline (Invisible)
portable to many unix (POSIX) systems
console interface with menus (using curses)
full unicode (UTF-8) support for input and output
multiple threads (using pthreads)
notification window (libnotify/Growl or external Tcl/Tk script)
contact ignore; you don't block them, they see you online, but get a network error when they contact you! ;-)
contact list cleanup (no more fake friends!)
message logging
sound effects (even with pc speaker!)
HTTP gateway (port 80); can also be used with other clients

Download

Source (github repo)

github.com/geotz/gtmess

Source (official releases)

gtmess-0.97.tar.gz (338K)
Sound files are provided separately (408K)

Older versions can be found at the file releases page.

Documentation

The documentation is included in the distribution. Here is an HTML version for on-line browsing:

INSTALL
README
ChangeLog
Manpage of gtmess (client)
Manpage of gtmess_w (terminal launcher)
Manpage of gtmess-notify (notification popups)

You can also see this FAQ (last update: Mar 17, 2015). It has been derived from the lots of emails I get about gtmess. This FAQ is not included in the distribution!

Screenshot

The screenshot is at the top of the page. I hope you found the full size version!