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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clientsThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clientsPosted Jan 16, 2007 19:58 UTC (Tue) by stuart (subscriber, #623)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients
So the first omission I can think of is the free-beer Opera browser that has an IRC client.
And if we're going to mention non-graphical clients: everyone I know uses screen with irssi. The ability to reattach (via screen) to one's single irssi session with all your channels and pms in one is a great productivity killer :-)
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients Posted Jan 16, 2007 20:25 UTC (Tue) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link] Notably irssi can also function as a proxy, so one can use one of the GUI clients to connect to irssi when possible and still fall back to attaching via ssh+screen when necessary.
ssh + screen + irssi Posted Jan 16, 2007 20:31 UTC (Tue) by kmself (subscriber, #11565) [Link] Amen. I tend to leave an active session up to Freenode's #debian and a few other channels. Hop on and off as time permits. And irssi simply rocks. I've tried a number of the graphical clients (Gaim, Kopete, Chatzilla, XChat), and would consider most of them stopgaps until I could get irssi installed and running on a system. They do have the advantage of being multi-protocol clients, however, generally supporting IRC, Jabber, AIM, YIM, and other protocols / chat services, which can have its uses. Incidentally, if you are stuck with Gaim, there's a UI-de-crufting tool, Gaim Extended Preferences which I strongly recommend. Mostly succeeds in losing a bunch of real-estate grabbing icons and toolbars and leaving you with a simple conversation box, text entry, and user list. Almost not even annoying.
ssh + screen + irssi Posted Jan 16, 2007 20:53 UTC (Tue) by Zero_Dogg (subscriber, #31310) [Link] I use bitlbee (http://bitlbee.org) which turns my ssh+screen+irssi session into an IM client aswell as an IRC client. Quite useful.
bitlebee Posted Jan 16, 2007 23:54 UTC (Tue) by mbligh (subscriber, #7720) [Link] Yup, that's an awesome app ... seems to do everything gaim can do.Most glaring ommision is skype support.
bitlebee Posted Jan 17, 2007 15:06 UTC (Wed) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035) [Link] I think I read somewhere sometime ago that Skype had made their text-based chat protocol open (maybe in response to the announcement of Google Talk), but since then I haven't heard anything about it. Quite a couple of my non-FLOSS friends use Skype, so I'd be interested in integrated text-based Skype chat in bitlbee or somehow otherwise.
Anybody know about this?
Michael
bitlebee Posted Jan 18, 2007 8:53 UTC (Thu) by bni (subscriber, #27103) [Link] I can join in in the praising of bitlbee. The fact that they run public servers that you can use for free is also very nice. Makes it very easy to get going.
bitlebee Posted Feb 11, 2008 12:46 UTC (Mon) by LintuxCx (subscriber, #14448) [Link] Actually there's a very nice plugin that adds Skype support via the official Skype API. See the bug report for more information: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/82
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