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yingwuzhao

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Registered: 2009-01-13

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What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

Forgive me for my newbie question.
I always saw people use their terminal for chatting and listening to music in screenshot, what are those applications?
Is it an equivalence to pidgin?
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japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

One client you might see is a part of the Pidgin package and it's called Finch.

[url]http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using Finch[/url]

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

You can use irssi/weechat for cli instant messaging on irc.  For aim and msn you need to use bitlbee in conjunction with a cli irc client like those mentioned before.

Last edited by rson451 (2009-03-13 16:50:57)

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hauntergeist

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Registered: 2008-10-11

Posts: 56

Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

Hello.

irssi is a irc-chat client designed for use in a terminal and in conjunction with bitlbee it is able to act as an multi-IM-messenger.

Damnit, too slow

Last edited by hauntergeist (2009-03-13 16:48:56)

Mogger

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Registered: 2008-12-07

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Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

See here for audio players that run in a terminal (all except Sonata in that list).

yingwuzhao

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Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 109

Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

Thanks guys, I will try them out this weekend.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

Here is what I often use:
Click for picture.
Top left: weechat 0.2.6          Top right: mc
Bottom left: moc                   Bottom left: vim

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-03-13 17:23:23)

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Primoz

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Re: What is the app that people use to chat inside of terminal?

I was playing around with centerim when I still used Kubuntu. If I recall correctly it supports all the popular protocol; I used Gtalk of Gmail which is same as Jabber, so I can assure you that at least
that one works. It was quite cool especially using it with Yakuake. But I guess that Kopete was better as it notified you about how came online and such...
But now with Kopete again not working I use Pidgin witch unfortunately sometimes crashes plasma, so I'm starting to think that it's time to try centerim again.

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