Posts tagged ‘irssi’
Bitlbee is a “console-based IRC to IM chatting gateway, including ICQ/MSN/Jabber”. Basically, it allows the user to interact with popular chat networks (ICQ, MSN, Jabber, AIM, YIM) within their IRC client.
The users’ buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel and conversations use the private message facility of IRC.
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I’ve done a lot over the past few months to make my time spent on the command line a bit more enjoyable and easier to use. Hopefully you’ll find these steps useful as well.
Continue reading ‘How to have a lightweight, beautiful, functional terminal’ »
There are a number of places to get irssi themes. All you got to do Copy the .theme file to ~/.irssi/ directory, change the theme with /SET theme theme_name
Irssi is a popular IRC client. Its a very popular client for small window managers like fluxbox. This short howto will walk you though the steps for setting up a jail that only has a few commands in it and will help create a much safer IRC enviroment for you. There are a couple things you will need to have installed before we get started. First you need irssi, next you will need jail. First step is to install jail and irssi, so that irssi will work from your regular linux or unix install.
irssi is a command line IRC client for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:
Usage
When the application opens type: /connect “irc_channel” and press enter. As an example:
/connect irc.freenode.net
And that’s it.
