A keyboard (and hopefully console-based) instant messaging program?

MTsoul · 2008-12-15 07:02:50

Hiya,

I'm really getting the hang of Awesome WM, and I want to port my Windows programs to Arch. What options do I have for instant messaging? I mostly use MSN, so it's gotta have that. There's pidgin, but its GUI doesn't work well in keyboard-oriented Awesome, and its console (Finch) sure is ugly.

I heard you can use BitlBee and an IRC client to route all that. Since it doesn't use the Pidgin library, is BitlBee up-to-date on the MSN protocol? (With the personal message features and what not.) And what IRC clients allow a multi-window/terminal based setup? I'd like it so each chat window with an individual has its own allocated terminal / window that I can close, resize, and move around. A dedicated window for the buddylist. Does such a thing exist?

Thanks!

fumbles · 2008-12-15 07:48:23

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mentallaxative · 2008-12-15 07:59:08

Pebrot and Emesene come to mind.

Ghost1227 · 2008-12-15 08:17:52

I have yet to find a console messenger that I liked, I'm still using pidgin set to float in it's own screen and that works for me... if you find a cli multiprotocol messenger that works well and doesn't look like crap, please let me know

kevin89 · 2008-12-15 08:49:24

Take a look at finch, a ncurses based IM-client for msn. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14679

MoonSwan · 2008-12-15 08:50:47

Ayttm ? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20881

Ghost1227 · 2008-12-15 09:13:50

I hadn't seen ayttm, and it certainly looks like a more minimalistic alternative to pidgin, but it's still not cli, hence not what I'm looking for... and I suspect that MTsoul will agree.

patroclo7 · 2008-12-15 11:31:30

The pebrot interface was nice, but it is not maintained anymore. It works fine in the svn version, but it is not so up to date with the protocol. Any other CLI messaging interface always disappointed me (too many input fields, too many exotic shortcuts). If you are going to use bitlbee, weechat can give you splitted, tiled windows in the terminal emulator. I reccomend the 1.2.* series of bitlbee (the arch version is severely out of date, but just browse these forums for the updated PKGBUILD and initscript).

dolby · 2008-12-15 14:46:25

patroclo7 wrote:

I reccomend the 1.2.* series of bitlbee (the arch version is severely out of date, but just browse these forums for the updated PKGBUILD and initscript).

It was updated some days ago IIRC

I use irssi & mcabber. If your contacts dont use jabber, make em use it.

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patroclo7 · 2008-12-15 15:14:56

Oh, sorry, I should have checked

MTsoul · 2008-12-15 18:27:49

Awww that kind of sucks that there aren't any

I was browsing around and found II. It operates on the file system. So if I could run BitlBee and II, it seems straightforward to write a manager/daemon to monitor that part of the file system and launch windows for private conversations, etc. I dunno.. anyone up for it?=D

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