SLiteChat

SLiteChat (pronounced "slight-chat") is a completely open source text-only IM/chat client for use with Second Life. Use it to talk to your friends without having to load up all of those heavy graphic goodies. Useful for those at-work times!

About

Submitted by on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 16:38

I can't thank you enough
for SLiteChat - it's really
incredibly useful.
— Roger W.

SLiteChat (pronounced "slight-chat") is a text-only view for Second Life which is focused on in-world IM support.

What it is:

SLiteChat is a lightweight client which allows you to connect to the Second Life system and perform local chat and instant messaging with avatars in-world.

What it is not:

SLiteChat is not intended to be a fully-functional in-world viewer for Second Life. If you are looking for that, check out instead the Second Life Third Party Viewer ...

Download SLiteChat

Submitted by on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 16:21

Binary Distributions

Current Version (1.6.3)

Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7:
- SLiteChat-1.6.3-win32.exe
- SLiteChat-1.6.3-win32.zip
Macintosh OS/X i386 installer:
- SLiteChat-1.6.3-Darwin.dmg
Ubuntu Lucid package:
- slitechat-1.6.3-Linux-i686.deb
- slitechat-1.6.3-Linux-i686.tar.gz
OpenSUSE:
- Many thanks to Mathias for creating this package!
- Add Mathias' repository:
  - OpenSUSE 11.0:
    - zypper ar -f -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
      home://lemmy04/openSUSE_11.0/home:lemmy04.repo
  - OpenSUSE 11.1:
    - zypper ar -f -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
      home://lemmy04/openSUSE_11.1/home:lemmy04.repo
- Install with Yast: zypper install slitechat
Gentoo:
- Many thanks to Techwolf for his Gentoo overlay (instructions on how to use are in the overlay itself).