ssh + screen + irssi [LWN.net]

ssh + screen + irssi

Posted Jan 16, 2007 20:53 UTC (Tue) by Zero_Dogg (subscriber, #31310)
In reply to: ssh + screen + irssi by kmself
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

I use bitlbee (http://bitlbee.org) which turns my ssh+screen+irssi session into an IM client aswell as an IRC client. Quite useful.

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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 (guest, #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