The best IRC Client?

theProphecy · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject: The best IRC Client?

Hi all.

I am looking for a IRC client for linux, im used to mIRC, and would like something lookalike or better than... Maybe someone can give some ideas of wich to try out..

It would be really nice to get some names for irc clients to try out.
It would be very nice if you could explain a little abouut why the irc client is best..

Thansk!
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gaute · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:33 pm Post subject:

X-chat is a good graphical irc-client. I use irssi, but it's not anything like mIrc. Thank god.
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Anime_Fan · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:36 pm Post subject:

Some people liked to tile multiple windows in mIRC.

There is really no clients that can do this in Linux as far as I know. If anyone knows of one, please feel free to tell me

(X-Chat creates new windows and irssi is, well, console-based).

I prefer X-Chat, mostly because I use Gnome. It's also pretty painless to use, the setup is very simple.

I've also thought of using irssi together with screen so that I can talk in the same program from home and work. Screen and irssi didn't work all that great together throguh Putty, though.

Athas · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject:

Aye, another vote for X-Chat from over here

If you're a KDE user you could also try KVirc, which is a fairly advanced IRC-client.
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theProphecy · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject:

Well X-chat is fine, but it's got some serius problems with chat room names, and characters in nordic languages (im Danish).. :-)

So that is kind of a problem, but your right, X-Chat's gui is fine...

So what do you thing the good thing about irssi?
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Athas · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject:

gaute · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject:

TPC · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

riis · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject:

ksirc
KDE irc klient, very nice but I don't use it much. You have tabs for your chatrooms and you switch between them with alt+[arrow-keys]. I like it.'

Athas, theProphecy -> I skulle tage at skrive jeres respektive byer i jeres 'location'-felt (eller fortælle mig hvor I er), det er nederen kun at vide at i er her i DK : ) (jeg vil vide hvor!)

jaska · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject:

I use irssi. Its not bloated, in my opinion its not pretty sure someone can find it bloated, its fast, has good windowmanagement as gaute mentioned, you can easily make themes for it. Irssi also has all kinds of scripts for extra functions and so on. If i dont have irssi availabel, i use epic, but that is a rare occurence.

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i second that.

jacob's ladder · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 68 Location: underwater

irssi is thee best. it has all kinds of functionality and scripts available. it also has a build in proxy so you can re-connect to your irssi client with a pretty gui client (x-chat for that), pretty slick.
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lisa · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject:

I'm voting for irssi. Combined with Screen and a stable shell and you will never have to log off. In fact, before I moved my irc sessions to dev.gentoo.org I had irssi up locally for over 75 days.
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Cossins · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject:

I use ksirc - simple and straightforward.

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theProphecy · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject:

Well that is what i call quick response!

Athas-> Thanks for the tip... Ill do that.

I think i'll try out most of the clients suggested... :-)

Like the sound of being able to create my own themes with irssi..

riis-> Jo det kan jeg vel godt så... :-)

Men så også kun fordi det er onsdag.

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Koala Kid · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 382

Konversation

Very simple, good & comfortable IRC client.

... if you have kdelibs compiled, of course.

so · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 115 Location: Roma

KVIrc
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den_RDC · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:16 am Post subject:

definatly kvirc .... way more advanced then anything else, but extremely slow developpment (and fake transparancy support for nice eyeKandy

)... i sugest u roll a quick ebuild using a cvs snapshot.

zenlunatic · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 312

What's exactly so terrible about Mirc anyway? I've yet to see any valid arguements against why Mirc is a bad clients. I can understand if you don't choose to use Mirc as your client, but adding little blurbs such as, "...not like Mirc. Thank God" is simply foundless, unproductive, and immature.

dh3rm3 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 101

I'd vote for irssi, I used it a long time... handy as hell...
if only I could manage to get it work with Perl 5.8.2

without having to downgrade
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syscrash · Guru Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 541

I use x-chat, works great for me. I really like the tabbed interface

alphatronics · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 6:55 am Post subject:

The best IRC client is whatever you feel most comfortable using.

I started with X-Chat, since it was graphical and fairly intuitive as far as setup, but once I got used to irssi, I stuck to it and haven't looked back.

Xiol · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 209 Location: UK

I started off with X-Chat too, but soon wanted something fast and small, so I turned to irssi.

And I love it.

ian! · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 2:28 pm Post subject:

Moved to 'Duplicate Threads'.

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