All about Gtalk

Shortcuts




* CTRL + mouse wheel up / down over input textbox: Change the font of the text box.

* F9: Open Gmail to send an e-mail to a friend
* F11: Start a conversation with a friend
* F12: Stop the current call
* ESC: Close the current window
* ALT + ESC: Minimize the current window
* TAB: Switch between multiple chat windows
* Ctrl + I: How TAB
* SHIFT + TAB: the same card but in reverse order
* CTRL + TAB: Same as SHIFT + TAB
* Windows + ESC: Open Google Talk (if it is minimized or in tray)

Text chat

* A message can be 32,767 characters.
* Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue.
O :-|:-:- x:-D:-D ;-) :-(: |: O: x: P:): O (;-|;-,- x,-P,-D -) ;-(, |, O, X, P, D) (B-| BO Bx BP BD B-) B-(B '(BO Bx BD B) B (B) and you can have a "between the characters between to get them shown in blue.
* To write text in bold type, put it between the asterisks * *
* For the text in italic, put it between _underscores_
* You can insert special characters like? with "Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Maps.


Conversation window

* Drag a conversation window on top of each other and dock together.
* Drag a file to the chat history and send the file to the selected contact.
* When you receive a notification message, you can right click to close it without focusing the conversation window.


Conference Calls

* What should you do to have conference calls: Open a copy of Google Talk on all computers you want in the conference. After a copy is open to a new shortcut for Google Talk, but at the end of nomutex / add. If you installed in the default folder then your shortcut should be "C: \ Program Files \ Google Talk \ Google \ googletalk.exe" / nomutex. Open two instances of the software on each user's computer. After the start of a chain: User 1 should connect to an instance of the user 2. User 2 will connect to his second place of the user 3. User 3 is connected with the second instance back to user 1. Thus, each chain is connected to all.

Nickname & Status Message

* You can name the Google Account page.
or change the nickname need to access your Gmail account and change the name. Choose your settings, account information and then click Edit. Click the second radio button and type the custom name.
In response to your e-mail will be Nick and there is no way to separate the two.
* You can create a site with your personal message to be added, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

Contact

* Do not say yes or no, if someone wants to add as a friend, you can simply ignore the request will disappear. (On the other hand, someone to chat often will automatically be your friend, unless you do this).
User@gmail.com * The Gmail account can not be invited as your friend.

Audio & Video

* E 'possible to transmit music, MP3, etc.. through Google Talk.
Disconnect the microphone. Click the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This opens
on "Volume Control". Select "Options", then "Properties". Control knob
next to "Record", then click OK. You can also change the setting in
Mixer device. Now, the check register screen should be fine. On my computer I selected "Wave Out Mix". Click on the green phone in Google Talk and call your friend.

Secret Startup Parameters

* / Nomutex: Allows you to open more than one copy of Google Talk
* / Autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, check the settings in the registry to see if it has to be started or not. If the "Start automatically when Windows starts" is selected, it will not start.
* Force of departure: even / autostart forces, but it is not important option is set to begin.
* / S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
* Register: Google Talk saves in the registry include the method of preparation Gmail.
* Arrival day: Departure for new versions
* / Plaintextauth: simple authentication mechanism instead then use Google's GAIA mechanism. Used to test the normal method on Google's servers.
* / Nogaiaauth: method disables GAIA authentication. Same as above.
* Factory setting: the default settings.
* / Servername.com Gaia Server uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debugging, there are no other known GAIA servers.
* / Email@host.com Mailto: Send an e-mail with Gmail
* / Diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
* / News: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
* / Opt?
* / Embed:?

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