KMess, MSN Messenger for Linux
As Linux user it's still easy to contact old friends.
Chat with friends using MSN Messenger, enjoy our great features:
- Display picture transfers
- Fast file transfers
- Custom emoticons and nudges
- Winks and offline-im messages receiving
- Rich and colorful chat styles and logs
- Live Mail e-mail notifications
See the screenshots for a visual overview.
Download KMess!
Linux x86 installer for KDE 3.2 and up.
About KMess
KMess is an alternative MSN Messenger chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.
Like many Linux and KDE applications, KMess is free software. Our software's license is the GNU General Public License.
Do you want to help?
KMess is Free and Open Source Software made by volunteers. You can contribute translations, report problems, make suggestions, improve the code, or add new features! Contact us if you'd like to help!KMess 2.0 alpha 2 released
We're proud to announce the second preview release of KMess 2. Since the first preview release, we've worked hard to add tons of new exciting features to KMess, and also to improve its stability.
The most significant additions to KMess 2.0 alpha 2 are:
- Support for MSN connections over HTTP, to deal with corporate firewalls.
- Support for Ink (hand-written) messages.
- Support for tabbed chatting.
- Support for MSN Plus text formatting.
- Every dialog received a makeover.
- Chat Windows can be re-used again after reconnecting.
- Support to chat with offline and invisible contacts.
- Searchbox in the contact list.
- Options to choose the browser and e-mail client used by KMess.
- A lot of new highly requested options, like blocking notifications when busy, choosing file transfer ports, winks disabling, and contact list customization options.
As with the first alpha, We're using alpha 2 as our main client already. There might still be some issues. Please test this alpha release and tell us how it's working for you!