How to Add a Shortcut to IRC Room on Desktop

[Robert E. Butts]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:20 -0400, Scott J. Henson wrote:

> Ive attached an example file.  Pretty much what your going 
> to need is install xchat-gnome, edit the file to point to 
> your server, port, and channel.  Then put that on your 
> desktop and things should just work. 


This is the command that finally worked for me:

xchat --url=irc://irc.freenode.net/Ubuntu

Ubuntu ought to put a link like this in /etc/skel.  
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