I recently moved from using pidgin to using bitlbee (net-im/bitlbee). Bitlebee is sweet because it allows me to access “traditional IM” via irssi in a screen session from anywhere that I am via my co-located server. Of course, you can use any irc client that you are familiar with. As more and more of my friends move away from traditional IM, I don’t feel a need to pay as much attention to the various networks. So, it can stay off my desktop without worries. Do you use bitbee? Any fun tips?
- add missing patch (Portage version: 2.2.01.20430-prefix/svn/Linux x86_64,...
- Version bump from upstream, new stable candidate. bug 414167 with selinux mods...
- geoip in gx86, bug 416019
- add ~x86-linux, bug 416007 by Dan Wallis (Portage version: 2.1.10.56/cvs/Linux...
- Add prefix keywords and one small offset fix, bug 416019 (Portage version:...
- typo (Portage version: 2.1.10.56/cvs/Linux x86_64)
- gvfs migrated to gx86
- gcc-4.6.3 was synced and mistakenly had KEYWORDS added to it. Remove KEYWORDS to...
About
7 Comments
Use it and love it! Also am using irssi. Lovely combo!
Hmmmm
Sounds really interesting. I ve never heard of bitlbee before. Thanks for pointing us to this application. I ll definitely give it a try
I’m using bitlbeed since a long time and I like it.
I would suggest you to use the bitlbee_tab_completion [1] script. As all of bitlbeed irssi scripts I found online it’s pretty old, but it retrives the command from bitlbeed server, so it is always up to date.
Here [2] you can find many other scripts, most of them useless, like typing notification
[1] http://scripts.irssi.org/scripts/bitlbee_tab_completion.pl
[2] http://the-timing.nl/stuff/irssi-bitlbee/
Indeed, I have started looking for scripts already. Thanks for the tip.
If you happen to be paranoid(who isn’t :p), either use irssi-otr or grab an otr-branch of bitlbee.
bitlbee+irssi+screen+ssh here
I use a modified version of bitlbee with otr-support.
http://www.freshports.org/irc/bitlbee-otr/