Comments on: more efficient IRCing?

By: Tester

Tester — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:03:38 +0000

I had the same problem.. with the added requirement that I SSL both sides. And I ended up using “bip”, it seems to work pretty well.

By: Kisakookoo

Kisakookoo — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:48:08 +0000

Hi! Why I can’t fill my info in profile? Can somebody help me?
My login is Kisakookoo!

By: Astro

Astro — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:38:43 +0000

I also use screen+irssi for many years now. A vanilla BNC plus IRC client won’t give you any nice history feature.

But this blog entry gave me the idea of giving RbIRC-t BNC functionality. Jabber MUC includes history features and Gajim is much more pretty than XChat. Let’s see what time permits…

By: Erich

Erich — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:47:41 +0000

I’m using a patched version of the “muh” IRC bouncer with xchat. Works really reliable.
I’ve patched muh to store any public message starting with my nick. (patch is in upstream sourceforge, maybe applied by now; not sure if it’s in the Debian package. the maintainer asked me once about the patch IIRC)
A slightly bit smarter way of storing followup messages would be nice (e.g. also store followup messages by the same user that don’t include a different username; sometimes people reply with multiple lines without repeating the nick). But other than that I’m fine, and I never really missed not having a full log (muh could do that, but I wouldn’t check the log anyway, if it’s supposed to be important people will use email anyway).

P.S. Your “math test” for comments is broken. “add 0 and 2″ equals 2, I’m pretty sure of that…

By: ’Til All Are One :: Single IRC login from multiple locations :: January :: 2007

’Til All Are One :: Single IRC login from multiple locations :: January :: 2007 — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:17:56 +0000

[...] Lucas Nussbaum has posed an eerily familiar question: what is the best way to maintain a single and constant IRC presence, accessed from multiple locations? After some experimentation with different solutions (including Irssi + Irssi-Proxy), I finally settled upon a combination of Bip IRC Proxy, an SSH tunnel and my favourite GUI IRC client. I was planning to write a guide, but I came across an excellent one which explains the whole process. Managing the SSH tunnel is easy with gSTM. [...]

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:16:25 +0000

Like Andrzej says, Xchat with VNC (in this case probably: Xvfb with some VNC or RDC server (KDE and gnome have built-in RDC servers IIRC, they just need to get enabled for the session) might work if you don’t have a desktop which you want to keep open at all times.

PS: It’s certainly sub-optiomal to ask the math question below the submit button. I wouldn’t expect additional _needed_ input fields below it.

By: Martin Grondin

Martin Grondin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:37:52 +0000

PFJIRC allows connections with GUI clients and you can bounce around. I don’t use it (as I use screen+irssi personally) but this seems to be something you can use. It does, however, need some love, some things aren’t implemented quite yet. But overall it seems fairly nice.

http://pfjirc.org/

From their site:

“PFJirc is a program that allows you to use one IRC connection from multiple clients. It allows, for example, the use of an instant-messaging client, like Gaim to be used for /ISON and PRIVMSG-type messages, yet channels to be delegated to a proper IRC client, like XChat.

A finer-grained control is achievable beyond this, too. It is possible, for example, to run two IRC clients, say, XChat and Irssi together, and appear still as just one user. PFJ here allows different clients to join different channels, so you can access your most important channels from irssi on an ssh login, yet still maintain a presence in the rest on your XChat session.”

By: Andrzej Mendel

Andrzej Mendel — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:37:26 +0000

Perhaps XChat + VNC?

By: David, biologeek

David, biologeek — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:39:34 +0000

I use miau irc bouncer + xchat or colloquy and it works pretty well. irssi? C’mon guys we’re in 2007!

By: Jelmer Vernooij

Jelmer Vernooij — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:23:38 +0000

Most of the ctrlproxy issues are fixed in version 3.0, though that hasn’t hit Debian yet.