Connecting Pidgin to GoogleTalk
April 11, 2008
Trying to set up a Gtalk account in Pidgin a few weeks ago seemed complicated, and given the fact that it does seem ambiguous in what you have to enter, it seems to work.
Let's assume your e-mail address is
foo@bar.com and you already have a google login. Then what you
have to enter in the Pidgin account box login options is “foo” into Screen Name and — to my
surprise — “gmail.com” into the Domain field. I have run across foo@gmail.com in my own Google Account settings too —
quite confusing given that one has @bar.com (replace by your
respective domain). This also raises the question, what if there was a third
user foo@baz.com user, which login details would s/he use in
Pidgin if foo@gmail.com is already taken...
