Comments on: GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

By: aniket

aniket — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:48:30 +0000

please please please please please some one help me…..!!!!!!

By: aniket

aniket — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:46:59 +0000

hey can any one please help me….
I have follwed the procedure…
accordin to them it shows the dependencies problem first then we hv to give tht command…
whn I do that it ask me:Y/N?
so i enterd Y
and then it proceds
but at the end I cant see any Gtalx option in my;
application-internet…
pease please please…!!!!!

By: Arvind

Arvind — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:35:47 +0000

Now you dont need to be sad, google itself has released the plugin for linux at trust me the clarity and stuff is awesome…

By: Someone Special

Someone Special — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:46:52 +0000

Pidgin and Empathy both work well. This statement:
“Requires configuring server, port, ssl and god knows what. Am a newbie!” proves that you have no business posting on a site called “Ubuntu Geek” as you are clearly not a geek in any way! There’s nothing wrong with being a newbie, but you certainly should not be giving out bad advice!

By: x2p8k

x2p8k — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:34:00 +0000

I am a newbie user and could never get pidgin and empathy to do voice chat. Tried Gtalx and it worked straight away. Thanks to Joszef for his good work.
BTW the interface is terrible.

By: Rodislav Moldovan

Rodislav Moldovan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:18:08 +0000

i just tested with empathy, and everything is ok! i didn`t know about this thanks!

By: Tapan Chugh

Tapan Chugh — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:30:34 +0000

The only advantage that appears is that you cannot share files over gtalk network if you are using different clients. So it might allow us to share files (I have not tried it yet)

By: nikonaum

nikonaum — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:49:58 +0000

And most of you say you didn’t have problems with pidgin and empathy for voice chat, so well done. I did almost everything in the past to here some dissent audio out of empathy but it was way too crappy. I hadn’t tried pidgin, terrible localization (no spell check when one switches the keyboard layout, awful problem, I’m a terrible Cyrillic writer ). And you are forgetting something empathy does not support file transfer. I’ve not tried pidgin on that matter, maybe it can. I’m really happy now. ????????.

By: 10

10 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:58 +0000

I’ve had numerous issues getting pidgin to work with audio/video. Constant crashes.

I’m glad GTalx is here for the audio bit.

By: G Fernandes

G Fernandes — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:20:50 +0000

YAPTDTST (Yet Another Program That Does The Same Thing) eh? Only worse. Because Empathy does Voice AND Video over Google Talk. GTalx obviously doesn’t do Video. For that matter, Google’s own Google Talk doesn’t do video!

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:24:44 +0000

I use pidgin since I started using ubuntu (since 7.04) for gtalk. As for video it now works in pidgin, not sure how, because I just tried it, but it seemed fine.

By: kamerali sohbet

kamerali sohbet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:39:37 +0000

thanksssss

By: P?teris Krišj?nis

P?teris Krišj?nis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:55:52 +0000

dubairevived: no, Pidgin and Empathy don’t require ANYTHING. I chat trough video and audio already for some time. All plug and use, works out of box.

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:25:42 +0000

Empathy is kool…

By: Abhishek S.

Abhishek S. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:11:25 +0000

Yeah, even I miss GTalk in Ubuntu 9.10. It’s easy voice chat and file sharing features and its integration with GMail and Orkut (Google’s social networking website) are too good.

I was surprised that a program as small and yet widely used as GTalk couldn’t work under WINE…
*Sigh*…Will give GTalX a try though…

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:49:43 +0000

Whoa, it wants to remove 22 packages before installing… Think I’ll try configuring it in Pidgin ;’)

By: dubairevived

dubairevived — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:02:13 +0000

Pidgin and Empathy, requires some configuration, right? atleast the server address, port, force old ssl etc…

gtalX works out of the box without any configuration on my granma’s comp

btw,
do post the configuration required for pidgin to allow gtalk voice chat for the benefit of all

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:20:01 +0000

Latest pidgin allows voice as well as video chat for gmail accounts.

By: Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh Isaacs II — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:44:23 +0000

“Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.”

Couldn’t you just use the newest Pidgin? It supports Voice and Video on Google Talk now.

By: eva

eva — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:56:53 +0000

Hi. You can use Gtalk with Pidgin and Empathy, all in Karmic. You don’t need another application.

Cheers