Good IRC client
Stephen Rees-Carter
stephen at rees-carter.net
Sun May 20 22:36:19 UTC 2012
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Ishwor Gurung <ishwor.gurung at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2012 10:30, Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen at rees-carter.net> wrote:
>> I'm curious, what does the client-server model do in Quassel?
>> I assume you don't mean you run your own IRC server?
> No. It runs the irc client for you and stays connected until it is shutdown.
>
> 1. your irc client on Ubuntu <----> quassel <----> irc.freenode.net
> 2. You disconnect
> 3. But Quassel <----> irc.freenode.net remains open.
Ah ok. I've never considered that as an option. I guess I'm more of a
casual IRC user so I don't need to know everything said while I'm
gone.
Still, I'll keep it in mind :)
>> I tried Irssi a while ago, but it doesn't play nice with Byobu so it
>> never worked out for me.
> Having said above, people still prefer to use irssi with screen or tmux.
My Irssi/screen/tmux skills must just be lacking :)
(Highly likely!)
> I know it's a bit uncool, and i don't know if it meets your requirements
> (since i don't use Unity), but i find pidgin to be pretty good. I
> prefer it because it integrates IRC, XMPP, and other protocols, and its
> logging and searching works pretty well. I use dircproxy to keep my IRC
> connection going regardless of my laptop's status, and between the two
> it meets my needs.
I've been using Empathy for a similar reason, and it's still on my short list.
Thanks everyone, I'll give XChat another trial and see how it goes. I
can always switch if it gets too annoying again!
Thanks,
~Stephen
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