Google Talk on Pidgin for Dummies ,on Windows

To use the clichéd sentence, it's been a long break.

Well, it is nice to be back and thanks to some good friends who were bent on asking me how to set up Pidgin ,and too lazy to find out themselves, herez a "for Dummies" post.

Straight to work.

And oh, I'm setting this up for Google Talk.

Start Pidgin and this is what appears (assuming this is the first time).



1. Choose "Add" on the "Accounts" window.
2. And in the resulting window ,choose Google Talk as the protocol from the drop-down menu (You might as well choose XMPP) under Login Options.
3. Give your Google Account user name as Screen name and enter the password in the appropriate field.
4. Choose "Remember password" if needed, and choose your User Options.
5. Now goto Advanced tab and check "Require SSL/TLS". This is required
6. Fix the proxy settings (if you use your University/Institute connection ,like I do, proxies exist by default, ubiquitous ? ;) )

At the end of it all, it will look like the pic below.



7. Click "Save".
8. Done . :P

Oh well, this post is dedicated to all those who bugged me and made me write this, phew.

Update: The same on Linux, using Pidgin 2.5.3