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I run WeeChat in a tmux and connect to it with Glowing Bear. It's a similar experience, and it's all free software. It also leverages the whole power of WeeChat

I run WeeChat in a tmux and connect to it with Glowing Bear. It's a similar experience, and it's all free software. It also leverages the whole power of WeeChat in a nice interface (triggers, scripts, etc), so it can do some nice tricks that IRCcloud can't. Oh and there's also a Matrix script for WeeChat, so you can use matrix from WeeChat (and thus Glowing Bear)!

scrollaway 10y ago
Got some examples? I never tried WeeChat. I used to use Quassel (I liked the client a lot), but after my server died I figured it wasn't worth the trouble of maintaining it.
- lorenzhs 10y ago
  Examples for what? There are some screenshots of Glowing Bear on the GitHub page (https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear) and in a blog post I once wrote (https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear, probably outdated). I use it with a sans-serif font on the Desktop, too. The UI is quite hackable, you can add custom CSS rules to override things to your liking in the settings (simply changing the font doesn't require that, though). Some useful scripts include colorize_nicks.py (colourises nicks in messages, to make them stand out over the text) and grep.py (easily and efficiently search logs). Matrix.lua (https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) allows you to use the Matrix protocol with WeeChat, and by extension Glowing Bear. Trigger-wise, I have triggers that remove colour from status messages (most of them are just noise) or replace (lenny) with ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) when I send a message, mostly because I can ;) Getting push notifications requires a bit of setup, but there are scripts for Pushbullet/Pushover/..., or irssi-notifier (which also works with WeeChat) to do that. It's a bit complicated because we don't run any servers (Glowing Bear is just a bunch of static files, everything happens in your browser or your WeeChat), so we can't provide push notifications out of the box. Disclosure: I'm one of the Glowing Bear devs, so I may be biased :)
spinningarrow 10y ago
Wow I just tried this setup (tried using WeeChat directly from the terminal a while back but somehow it didn't feel comfortable) and it's pretty darn good. Thanks!

scrollaway 10y ago

Got some examples? I never tried WeeChat. I used to use Quassel (I liked the client a lot), but after my server died I figured it wasn't worth the trouble of maintaining it.

lorenzhs 10y ago
Examples for what? There are some screenshots of Glowing Bear on the GitHub page (https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear) and in a blog post I once wrote (https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear, probably outdated). I use it with a sans-serif font on the Desktop, too. The UI is quite hackable, you can add custom CSS rules to override things to your liking in the settings (simply changing the font doesn't require that, though). Some useful scripts include colorize_nicks.py (colourises nicks in messages, to make them stand out over the text) and grep.py (easily and efficiently search logs). Matrix.lua (https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) allows you to use the Matrix protocol with WeeChat, and by extension Glowing Bear. Trigger-wise, I have triggers that remove colour from status messages (most of them are just noise) or replace (lenny) with ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) when I send a message, mostly because I can ;) Getting push notifications requires a bit of setup, but there are scripts for Pushbullet/Pushover/..., or irssi-notifier (which also works with WeeChat) to do that. It's a bit complicated because we don't run any servers (Glowing Bear is just a bunch of static files, everything happens in your browser or your WeeChat), so we can't provide push notifications out of the box. Disclosure: I'm one of the Glowing Bear devs, so I may be biased :)

spinningarrow 10y ago

Wow I just tried this setup (tried using WeeChat directly from the terminal a while back but somehow it didn't feel comfortable) and it's pretty darn good. Thanks!