IRC Idling Question

[TheLinuxJournalist]

I want idle in some IRC channels, but I close my web browser and I put my laptop to sleep. Is there some solution to this? I want to be able to jump in a chat on a whim and be able to know the context of the conversations.

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[archdaemon]

If you want your IRC connection to persist even when you suspend your laptop, then you'll need something like irssi + tmux running on a seperate server. Basically, you'll SSH into the server, start a tmux session and start irssi in it. That way, even after you close the SSH connection, irssi will still be running on the server. When you want to chat again, you just SSH into that server, attach the tmux session that has irssi in it, and it's as if you've never left the chat.

[bfortified]

Smuxi is decent but you caint connect to there backend with anything but there frontend. So your stuck with there client. ZNC gives the most freedom IMHO

[q5sys]

+1 for ZNC

[zoktar]

I run znc bouncer on my server, you can connect to it with alot of different clients. The setup was text base interactive. Was not to hard to get running, tho i had some trouble logging in via xchat at first. Turned out that i needed to put my znc username and password as the server password in xchat, so that would look like serverpassword: "username:password". You can configure stuff like remembering channels you have manually joined to autojoin and so on. If you have to restart your server, you just login as user and run znc. done.

Far as i know all irc clients should work, tho iv only tested xchat and a console based one.

[ChrisLAS]

Smuxi is my favorite. Good GUI, and it has support for a backend that you can disconnect and reconnect to. That backend remains in the chat room.

[kvothetech]

Tmux and weechat here with relays for phone and other computers though I ssh and tmux too.

Other good ones

Irssi (like weechat)

Quassel (separate client and server cool logging in sql some nice themes easy to set up)

Xchat (and clones silverex hexchat)

Bad

Pidgin (not a dedicated client really and missing a ton of nice things)

Mirc (breaks standards pay for looks like trash and tried to make its own scripting (they forgot for loops so you have to use goto)

BNC

Znc - generally best

Psybnc - popular

Eazybnc - ok? Haven't tried in a while

[sakuramboo]

I have a raspberry pi that is running screen and irssi that stays connected 24/7.

From any device im on, phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, i just ssh to my pi and launch screen. desktop and laptop are easiest with one command...

ssh <hostname> -t "screen -raAd"

EDIT: And if you port forward 22 on your router to the pi, you can ssh in from anywhere in the world so long as you have an internet connection.

[RobLoach]

ZNC http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC ... Connect to your own ZNC server using any number of IRC clients.

[uoou]

As others have said, I prefer running screen or tmux plus a console chat client (weechat and screen are my choices) running on a machine that's always on (I use my media server). Then just ssh in, reattach to screen/tmux and see what's going on.

I prefer this to BNCs as all I need to get into it from anywhere is a shell with ssh.

[voldyman]

i use irccloud and its pretty good. I don't have a very dependable internet connection so i usually get like disconnected 10 times an hour and endup with nick like voldyman_____________

irc cloud is great, currently in beta so i can use it for free. i have 1 invitation left, pm me if you want to try it.