This is a fork of the main plugin at https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix but with additional fixes and compilation options.
Changes:
- Supports Windows
- Download a non-E2E version from here
- Download E2E version from here
- Supports gzip compression to help the "Invalid response" error
- Supports larger response sizes from the server for large images and for the "invalid response" error
This project is a plugin for libpurple which adds the ability to communicate with matrix.org homeservers to any libpurple-based clients (such as Pidgin).
This project is somewhat alpha, and only basic functionality has been implemented. Sending and receiving simple text messages is supported, as is joining rooms you are invited to by other users.
The following are not yet supported:
- Creating new rooms (and one-to-one chats)
- Presence indication
- Videos/rich text in messages
- Account registration
- Room topics
- Voice/video calling
The following are in progress:
- End-To-End encryption via Olm (ticket)
The plugin requires a matrix homeserver supporting client-server API r0.0.0 Synapse v0.12.0-rc1 or later is sufficient.
Pre-built binaries are available for Ubuntu since version 17.04 (Zesty Zapus). You should be able to install them giving the following commands in a terminal window:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install purple-matrix
For other GNU/Linux systems the plugin needs to be built from source.
You will need development headers/libraries for the following:
- libpurple 2.x [libpurple-dev]
- libjson-glib [libjson-glib-dev]
- libglib [libglib-dev (or libglib2.0-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial)]
- libhttp_parser [libhttp-parser-dev].
You should then be able to:
make
sudo make install
You will then need to restart Pidgin, after which you should be able to add a 'Matrix' account.
Set up a build environment using the Pidgin BuildingWinPidgin docs
You should then be able to:
make -f Makefile.mingw
make -f Makefile.mingw install
You will then need to restart Pidgin, after which you should be able to add a 'Matrix' account.
- Open the 'Manage accounts' dialog (under the 'Accounts' menu) and click 'Add'.
- If the plugin was loaded successfully, you will be able to select 'Matrix' from the 'Protocol' dropdown.
- Enter your matrix ID on the homeserver (e.g. '@bob:matrix.org' or 'bob') as the 'username', and the password in the 'password' field.
- On the 'Advanced' tab, enter the URL of your homeserver.
The Advanced account option 'On reconnect, skip messages which were received in a previous session' is disabled by default. This means that pidgin will show the last few messages for each room each time it starts. If this option is enabled, only new messages will be shown.