macirssi for linux?

Paaskehare · 2010-07-31 23:11:45

Hi, I have a quick question, I like irssi as a client, but I kinda got used to using mIRC (yes, feel free to call me crazy ) when I was on Windows.

I have tried a few GUI IRC Clients for Linux, but none of them seemed to do the job for me.

I have tried with irssi, but it just doesn't do the job for me, I don't like using keyboard shortcuts for an IRC client, it should basicly just be a GUI with point-and-click features in my opinion. I love the simplicity of macirrsi, and it seems to be just the GUI client I was looking for, however, there are no indications that there should be an equivalent available for linux.

So I ask of you, is there a port of macirssi available for linux?

karol · 2010-07-31 23:18:25

None of those suits you? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … RC_Clients
http://konversation.kde.org/?screenshots

Last edited by karol (2010-07-31 23:21:55)

Paaskehare · 2010-07-31 23:24:17

Well, I kinda dislike KDE, and I like macirssi because it uses irssi as a backend, so that would be the two top priorities anyway

karol · 2010-07-31 23:28:19

So you want irssi + Cocoa (or whatever it's called) on Linux?
I don't think it's going to happen.

Paaskehare · 2010-07-31 23:36:15

I just want a basic frontend for irssi, I don't care if it's Cocoa, I like the looks of the Konversation screenshots, but I don't like using KDE. GTK However would be a preferable choice, as it integrates well with my openbox installation.

This is kinda the setup I am looking for (except for those utterly ugly people besides the nicknames)

Last edited by Paaskehare (2010-07-31 23:36:56)

karol · 2010-07-31 23:42:47

http://xchat.org/files/screenshots/xchat_screen_1.png
I've also heard about weechat-gtk.

You really need to take them for a spin and decide for yourself.

cesura · 2010-07-31 23:46:39

I use xchat, mainly because I'm lazy

anonymous_user · 2010-08-01 00:12:34

karol wrote:

I've also heard about weechat-gtk.

How does one get weechat-gtk on Arch?

cesura · 2010-08-01 00:19:55

anonymous_user wrote:

karol wrote:
I've also heard about weechat-gtk.
How does one get weechat-gtk on Arch?

IIRC both weechat-curses and weechat-gtk comes with the weechat package.

Well, at least that's what Linux From Scratch says
http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Weechat

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anonymous_user · 2010-08-01 00:24:23

I have weechat installed but afaik it only has the ncurses UI.

cesura · 2010-08-01 00:29:28

Oh, it seems the Arch devs left the GTK, Qt, and wxWidgets versions out of the package, which is smart because it keeps the package lightweight. I guess you need to download the source and recompile it manually. I'm surprised it isn't in the AUR.
http://www.weechat.org/

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Paaskehare · 2010-08-01 01:07:46

I have tried several clients, including XChat, I still would prefer a simple irssi frontend like macirssi, if that is not available, I guess I will try to fiddle one together myself, I hope it won't be too time consuming, and I'm afraid it might though

quigybo · 2010-08-01 18:30:47

Recently I stumbled upon smuxi, looks like a decent gtk irc app, if only it didn't use mono...

Cape · 2010-08-01 18:58:48

OMG!!! I'm using smuxi since a lifetime now and never knew it uses mono!

Hell... gotta switch to another one

Square · 2010-08-01 19:24:51

There is RoxIRC and LostIRC, although I don't think they're in the repos or AUR.

Last edited by Square (2010-08-01 19:25:25)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-08-01 19:34:11

Weechat does not have a gtk/qt interface (yet)

Square · 2010-08-01 20:10:29

I have written a PKGBUILD for lostirc if you are interested in trying it. As noted, you may claim ownership and do whatever you want with it. Also, notice the license isn't filled out... I couldn't find that information in my haste.

EDIT: It appears that the binary is installed to /usr/local/bin. This behavior needs corrected

# Written by SquareHimself
#
## You have permission to claim ownership
##  of this pkgbuild and upload it to AUR.

pkgname=lostirc-svn
pkgver=767
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A simple, yet useful IRC client."
arch=('i686')
url="http://lostirc.sourceforge.net/"
license="?"
depends=('gtkmm' 'libsigc++' 'autoconf' 'automake' 'libtool')
source=()
md5sums=()

_svntrunk="https://lostirc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lostirc/trunk/lostirc"
_svnmod="lostirc"

build() {
  cd $startdir/src

  if [-d $_svnmod/.svn ]; then
    (cd $_svnmod && svn up $pkgver)
  else
    svn co $_svntrunk --config-dir ./ -r $pkgver $_svnmod
  fi

  msg "SVN checkout done or server timeout."
  msg "Starting make..."

  cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build
  cd $_svnmod-build

  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg/ install

  rm -rf $startdir/src/$_svnmod-build
}

Last edited by Square (2010-08-01 20:38:42)

cesura · 2010-08-01 20:49:30

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Weechat does not have a gtk/qt interface (yet)

for Curses GUI: weechat-curses
for Gtk GUI: weechat-gtk
for wxWidgets GUI: weechat-wxwidgets
for Qt GUI: weechat-qt

http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/old/0. … 03s01.html

Square · 2010-08-01 20:55:21

itsbrad212 wrote:

Mr.Elendig wrote:
Weechat does not have a gtk/qt interface (yet)
for Curses GUI: weechat-curses
for Gtk GUI: weechat-gtk
for wxWidgets GUI: weechat-wxwidgets
for Qt GUI: weechat-qt
http://www.weechat.org/files/doc/old/0. … 03s01.html

Features
--------
* chat client with multi-protocols/servers connection
* many GUI (curses, Gtk, Qt) (1)
* small, fast and very light
* customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl)
* compliant with IRC RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813
* developed from scratch
* multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other) (2)
* free software, released under GPLv3
NOTE: (1) only Curses interface is available today
+
(2) Windows version is under construction

Weechat Git :: README

Weechat does not have a gtk/qt interface (yet).

Last edited by Square (2010-08-01 20:57:13)

jdhore · 2010-08-07 15:17:23

I'd suggest xirssi for the OP. It's recently been revived so it compiles and works and it is getting new features. It's quite nice. You can check it out from the irssi svn. There are instructions of how to do so at: http://svn.irssi.org

Arch Linux

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