Ekg2 is an open source instant messenger program for unix systems. the program has a plugin-based structure, and supports multiple protocols, currently jabber, icq, gadu-gadu, irc, rivchat, polchat, nntp and rss. also a generic filesystem-based communication mechanism called "xmsg" is supported.

this package contains the plugin which uses x on-screen-display library to notify about events by showing them on an x window display.