Questions tagged [irc]
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing.
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IRC client that saves identity information
I have tried more than a handful of clients. For some reason we still need to use arcane knowledge such as
/msg NICKSERV IDENTIFY
Can anybody recommend an ncurses client that saves the IDENTITY ...
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Historical reasons for the IRC #channel prefix?
IRC channels have a prefix (most commonly #, but occasionally others like & or +). This # has become a feature of many messaging apps that came after IRC (discord, slack, etc). I'm curious if this ...
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ircII ansi escape sequences
REHASH from my original question.
I'm trying to get VT100/ANSI escape codes working in an irc client (ircII).
What facilitates this, is the screen.scr file.
The apparent problem, is that I cannot get ...
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ninja IRC client
I'm having a problem when compiling ninja IRC client. (http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/5b/ninja-1.5.9pre14.tar.gz)
It compiles fine, but segfaults upon executing. When strace'ing the ...
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Facing difficulties sending bytes containing white spaces python irc bot
Trying to make a basic irc bot in python (3.9.2) that can response specific commands when invoked. It works although when a response contains whitespace or a space, only the first word gets displayed ...
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Libera IRC network returns SSL or TLS errors with irssi or weechat [closed]
When I try to connect to Libera chat using IRSSI I get,
-!- Irssi: warning SSL handshake failed: Connection timed out
When I try to connect it with weechat I get
libera =!= | irc: TLS handshake ...
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How do I access my irc server over the internet if I'm using my phone for internet access for the pc
I'm running debian on my home pc. For irc server setup, I installed ircd-hybrid. I happen to have 4G mobile data on my phone and am using it to access the internet using usb tethering through the pc. ...
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which yum repo has both finch and pidgin for IRC?
While I'm able to install pidgin, I'm only after the CLI variant of finch for IRC.
More generally, I don't recall the specifics of how to add a repo, nor would I know which repo.
Primarily: how ...
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Using socat to make a secure tcp connection to an irc server
Recently, I got into irc, so I installed sic and started - obviously - chatting.
But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use ...
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How can I filter just one particular nick messages in weechat (IRC)
Consider have a buffer/channel opened in your weechat. I want to temporarily see all the messages of one user/nick. Is this possible? This means only the filtered nick messages will be shown (just for ...
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Having a persistent IRC client
I would like to have an IRC client (running on a server that I have SSH access to) be persistent on the server without disconnecting from the rooms and servers I joined. In other words, I want to be ...
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How to compile when the machine has not enough memory?
I have a low-end VPS that is set up with a ZNC as an IRC bouncer, and it runs just fine, it has around 128 MB of flash memory, which is NOT ENOUGH to compile one of the modules I want to use znc-push ....
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Irssi color window name on activity
How I can change the colors of the channel names which are active ? (some other user is interacting on that channel)
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Irssi, identical rooms on two servers
I connect to two servers with my irssi irc client at the same time. Let's call them serverA and serverB. Both servers have a chat room called #xyz. However when I join #xyz it only connects me to the ...
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Where to find xchat for debian stretch
It seems that the package xchat is not available in the stretch repository, all I can find is xchat-gnome. Can someone tell me if it was removed and if so, why?
I'm using mate desktop by the way.
My ...
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