other 3.x options for google talk?

[runequester]

While Im fighting with jabberwocky, are there any other options for using the google talk IM service on 3.x ?

[runequester]

Although it's kind of cheating, you could use TwinVNC to bring up a Linux desktop on an Intuition screen and use some Linux IM client. I run a couple of TwinVNC instances on my A1200 so I can browse the web with Opera on one screen and have movies playing on the other. For chatting it's very usable (not so much for videos but still fun to watch and drag screens down over each other while it's all running).

I'll have to check that out. How hard is it to get setup ?

[runequester]

hm, I downloaded twinVNC, and an VNC server app on the linux side, but I get TCP/IP stack cannot be found, when I launch twinVNC on the amiga.

However, Ibrowse is able to connect to the internet just fine. Suggestion ?

[runequester]

yeah, I was using Amitcp. I'll try out miami. Thanks!

[runequester]

okay, got miami set up. THat was a hell of a lot easier than amiTCP, I must say. I could have saved a looong afternoon a while back

Now for the next step...

[runequester]

huzzah. posting this from google chrome through vnc. its kinda slow, but ill mess with it more.

thanks guys!

edit: only downside is that my machine freezes when closing miami but eh, not too big a loss to reboot when i log off.

second edit: jabberwocky totally works with miami as well. The interface is pretty much insane, but I managed to get it working after a while too for google talk.

[runequester]

Googletalk requires TLS security and unfortunately Jabberwocky doesn't provide (or didn't provided) that.

-edit- what? tell me what settings did you use, please (perhaps ssl has to be disabled in gmail preferences?)

I had to hunt for a server that worked for it. The one that worked was jabber.iitsp.com for me.

Im using the 1.9 beta version so I dont know if that makes a difference to older versions.