XChat + Sound Highlight or other IRC Client?

[Takker]

Hi there.

I hope this is the right forum for this, if not, please move

My Problem: I used Windows for quite a long time (...) and was quite satisfied with mIRC.
Now I'm searching for a mIRC-like IRC Client for Linux. Actually I'm using xchat2, but I don't like that it devides the chat window into 2 frames. Also I'm missing a sound highlight (plugin), the pc-speaker-beep on highlight is just poor.

I tried kvirc, ksirc, but they all have less features than mIRC. I thought about wine'ing but I wanna run a native Linux client. And I don't wanna use console clients, I like mouse-moving and GUI-clicking

So anybody knows good clients, good plugins (sound on Highlight)?

Thx for help!
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[hensan]

You can have sound highlights in xchat. Look under Settings -> Lists -> Text events. Just make sure that the sound command variable is set to a wavplayer that you have installed, you set it with /set sound_command <yourwavplayer> (default is esdplay, I use sndfile-play).

[Takker]

hmm nice.

I think "Channel Action Highlight" is the right option?

But I can't edit it, xchat doesn't save the options if I enter a sound
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[hensan]

I think Channel Msg Highlight is what you want.

I had the same problem with the settings not being saved, I noticed you have to press enter after typing in the path to the wav for it to stick.

[Takker]

Ah, I see. SOMETIMES the small things ...

Thx a lot. Another 50 cent for a nice answer for the gentoo e.v.
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[Malice]

did you get this working?

I'm trying to do the same thing, but so far no luck.

I'm trying to use aplay as the sound command, and have tried Channel Message and Channel Message Hilight events.


Edit: Never mind. I was testing in a channel with only me. Actually need someone else to send you a message before you get noises. Doh! Stupid me.