Comments on: How to configure Pidgin to work with Google Talk

By: rey langit

rey langit — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:54:19 +0000

thanks dude! it works… =)

By: fathi

fathi — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:41:23 +0000

thank dear

By: Eman

Eman — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:45:05 +0000

This tutorial i helpful. wish i could see this before.

thanks a lot.
cheers.

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:31 +0000

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By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:56 +0000

I have installed pidgin2.6.3 on my office pc.
But I was unable to configure single chat client .
I have tried to connect to gtalk but it is not possible.

We have internet connection through LAN in the office and we are using proxy address for coonection.

I dont know much about these settings pl help me to configure gtalk client in pid gin.

By: mOJOjOJO

mOJOjOJO — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:55:47 +0000

You can send files only to users using Pidgin.
ruganblue@gmail.com/Talk.v104D8484D28, —this shows that the user in using Gtalk windows client while u r using Pidgin, so u couldn’t sent any file.

By: vivek

vivek — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:24:33 +0000

for me pidgin is saying like this

“Unable to send file to ruganblue@gmail.com/Talk.v104D8484D28, user does not support file transfers”

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:36:51 +0000

For anybody still struggling to get a non-gmail Google account signed in to Googletalk on Pidgin, here’s what I did (with thanks to SpaceCowboy above for the clue):

1. You need a Gmail account associated with your Google account. There’s no way round this for Googletalk.

2. Log into Google using your non-Gmail account (somebody@somewhere.com).

3. Register for Gmail. This will change the primary email account for that Google account to a new Gmail account (somebody@googlemail.com). There’s no way round this, sorry. But if you use that Google account to send email it will still appear to come from somebody@somewhere.com.

4. You can’t change the primary email address for that Google account so don’t bother trying.

5. Add your Google account to Pidgin:

Protocol: ‘Google Talk’,
Username: ’somebody’,
Domain: ’somewhere.com’.
You don’t need to change any of the advanced settings.

You should now be able to log in to Googletalk using Pidgin without getting “‘Not authorized’. Hope this helps.

By: saz

saz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:26:41 +0000

thanks manav,

your troubleshooting thing worked perfectly

By: Sujay

Sujay — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:01:49 +0000

Hey thanks a lot..
it was supercool i was able to use pidgin

thanks for your Knowledge sharing
keep posting