Gajim - 2025-08-19

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If the hostname is not set, gajim does not connect for some reason. The debug console is just spamming "(E) nbxmpp.stream ... unable to connect" without further info. receiving the configuration via dns is working from other clients for that host. how would i debug that? does gajim use the local dns to resolve the server info?

ringo: reset your gtk themes to default. Looks like your system is forcing its broken gtk theme on gajim somehow.

> do you know how i can get rid of those disgusting thick borders? I don't have these. Check the official screenshot. That's what it's supposed to look like

https://gajim.org/img/screenshots/main-window.png

vlad: make sure Gajim uses adwaita's standard theme. Then there is no border

fee: start Gajim with -v

To get a more detailed debug log

And yes Gajim uses the system resolver

Maybe your server misses some srv entries? ✏

Maybe your domain misses some srv entries? ✏

Hello, I have a strange issue with Gajim spell check

https://upload.lebihan.pl:5281/file_share/068a4342-3f2e-7f1c-a716-9ff038ef89ee/Capture%20vid%C3%A9o%20du%202025-08-19%2010-20-02.mp4

Yes a known issue of the spell checking lib, it does not limit results and if there are too many it breaks

It should work if your screen has more space on the bottom

Or rather it's both, a Gtk issue, but they say don't put that many entries in a scrolled window

mimi89999: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/issues/12259

I think we should report it to lib spell check also

> It should work if your screen has more space on the bottom I should get a bigger screen then 😀 ↺

Totally your own fault

You're holding it wrong, obviously

> Yes a known issue of the spell checking lib, it does not limit results and if there are too many it breaks Sor whatever reason, there are all possible locales for a language ↺

That depends on which spell checking dicts you've installed on your system. Gajim logs all of them at startup

on fedora gwenview crashes when I try to open an image from gajim. if I try to open the folder, dolphin crashes too

this is with gajim only

Then you should report that to the projects

At least I managed to set it up by reducing the window

> I don't watch videos: if you can't explain in text, then it's pointless to even report a bug. 🤣

mimi89999: I linked a relevant issue in libspelling https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libspelling/-/issues/13

mimi89999: yeah I think he had a very bad day

But that interaction cost me also some emotions ✏

The gtk maintainers are pretty much overworked as any other maintainer. He just recently proposed in a presentation that he seeks to distribute the workload onto more shoulders, by transforming to a different governance type, for eg he thought of the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEP), Rusts RFCs or the Fedora Steering Comittee as inspirations ✏

> ringo: reset your gtk themes to default. Looks like your system is forcing its broken gtk theme on gajim somehow. I already tried that. Even to "default" it doesn't look normal. More like it's not themed at all. Worth noting that it's also the only app affected

for reference, here's the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ir6RXkIeA&t=3378s The Day1 opening talk about the state of Gtk is likely worth watching too.

ringo, this is most likely your system which either doesn't have all dependencies installed _or_ is misconfigured. I'm running Gajim just fine (Plasma 6.3). You can check GTK inspector, it lets you select different themes for Gajim. You could check if Adwaita-empty (the default) is available at all

thanks mesonium

There has to be remnants of whatever the hell pywal did that I can't find because I deleted all of of the ~/.config/gtkrc* and let Plasma re-create them by changing the theme back and forth. Also tried with nwg-look. The whole system and other GTK apps follow along without issues but Gajim remains the same. I also tried emptying the ~/.local/share/gajim and ~/.config/gajim directories and the issue persists

I have no idea where to look anymore.

ringo, create a new user and copy your configs one-by-one

alexkurisu: how do I make a app that can show message history when not connected to the server without syncing to a local database?

Damn again wrong chat

lovetox: does this happen for you with Conversations always? :-P

No

> vlad: make sure Gajim uses adwaita's standard theme. Then there is no border it only has default and dark in the config also i don't have rounded corners, no compositor ↺

how does one completely uninstall gajim from windows 11? it was installed, uninstalled, now has a windows store version installed. i want to clean everything and install 2.3.4 fresh

Patrick: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/wikis/help/Backup#windows

You use the uninstaller that is also installed

And check the paths on the backup wiki they need to be deleted

ok. she ran the uninstaller and deleted gajim folder from appdata

Since the issue is also present in GNOME Text Editor, I reported it there https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/818

🤷‍♂️

mimi89999: you could attach the gtk issue there as well, to spare devs the research ;)

I fear that they will just close it then

Sure, but what's your idea here? The problem is known and you let them search to close the issue afterwards?

I did tell them...

thanks :)

https://chat.domn.net:5443/upload/500b07a7efeff7dd5a382d5bf3fa0d30cec686c6/eaSMGDWMgawLSu12kaIKzurodk7ZNHJrQmABg0c4/5537257d-2b17-4b99-a9f5-981c68da7d91.png

Oh my ! opt-in update checking, that is so blessed !

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master new: SideBarSwitcher: Add support for sub menus - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/24c4c43bb1b4881be2907bc299bd1a5a1c6aa7a0

I had two message losses with Gajim these days. One message was one-to-one, the other in a MUC. Both sent from Gajim 2.3.4. I see the messages locally, but they did not arrive on the other side. Different accounts of mine on different servers, both pretty current prosody. Has anybody else made the same experience?

anything in the debug console?

The error message above is from my editor, not from Gajim.

*Many* lines. But when I tried to copy them into my editor, so that I can search, Gajim hanged. ``` gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for property-notify event") Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner ``` (Error message from my editor, not from Gajim.) Had to hard kill Gajim, no other way. Now the debug log is gone :-(

*Many* lines. But when trying to copy them into my editor, so that I can search, Gajim hangs. ``` gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for property-notify event") Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner ``` (Sent from Dino, as long as Gajim is unresponsive, showing only a black square.)

There is no "Save to file" option in the debug log, right? Copy/paste seems to have a size limit.

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master feat: Add Shortcuts Manager - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/9480cacf603d47551672831262ba5b74cc744ec0

debacle, sounds like deeper problems in the system somwhere

There are a couple of (minor) problems since GTK4. Maybe sth. with "portals"?

E.g. when I paste text (right click for context menu, paste) at the end of a word, the text is pasted one character to the left, leaving the last character of the word to the right of the pasted text.

When I select text in the input field, the selection goes away on right mouse click, so I can't use cut or copy from the context menu.

This does not happen with text in the conversation, i.e. text already sent.

> When I select text in the input field, the selection goes away on right mouse click, so I can't use cut or copy from the context menu. yes this is a bug we introduced because of another workaround ↺

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master fix: MessageInput: Don’t remove selection on right click - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/42806117cd1f0d41516c9dd8adc636d5d492700f

> E.g. when I paste text (right click for context menu, paste) at the end of a word, the text is pasted one character to the left, leaving the last character of the word to the right of the pasted text. we place the cursor on click under the mouse, so if you click at the end of a word to place the cursor and then right click, it seems you need to be very exact, then it works, if you move your mouse before click a bit to the left, then it registers the mouse over one position to the left and places the cursor there ↺

its a tradeoff sadly, we need to place the cursor where you right click, because the spell check lib will suggest word for where the cursor is

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libspelling/-/issues/5

i have to say the switch to libspelling was a downgrade

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master cfix: ShortcutManager: Remove redundant instruction - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/733b0e068a4ce89303c60204d25af9ec8e409ee8