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finch(1) General Commands Manual finch(1) NAME Finch - A Pimpin' Penguin console frontend to libpurple. Instant Mes- saging client. SYNOPSIS finch [options] DESCRIPTION finch is a console-based modular messaging client based on libpurple which is capable of connecting to XMPP, IRC, SILC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, and QQ all at once. It has many com- mon features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. OPTIONS The following options are provided by finch using the standard GNU com- mand line syntax: -c, --config=DIR Use DIR as the directory for config files instead of ~/.purple. -d, --debug Print debugging messages to stderr and start with the Debug win- dow. The messages shown in the Debug window are the same as the ones printed in stderr. -h, --help Print this help and exit. -n, --nologin Don't automatically login when finch starts. Sets all accounts to Offline. -v, --version Display the version information window. GNT Shortcuts You can use the following shortcuts (see the "Widget Actions" section for a more complete list): Alt + a Bring up a list of available actions. You can use this list to access the accounts window, plugins window, preference window etc. Alt + n Go to the next window. Alt + p Go to the previous window. Alt + w Show the list of windows. You can select and jump to any window from the list. Alt + c Close the current window. Alt + q Quit. Alt + m Start moving a window. Press the cursor keys to move the window. When you are done, press Enter or Escape. Alt + r Start resizing a window. Press the cursor keys to resize the window. When you are done, press Enter or Escape. Alt + D Dump the contents of the screen in HTML format. Alt + . Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the right. Alt + , Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the left. Alt + l Refresh the windows. This is useful after resizing the terminal window. Alt + 1 2 ... 0 Jump to the 1st, 2nd ... 10th window. Alt + Tab Jump to the next URGENT (highlighted) window. Alt + Shift + Tab Jump to the previous URGENT (highlighted) window. Ctrl + o or F10 Bring up the menu (if there is one) for a window. F11 or Ctrl + x Popup the context menu (if there is one) for the selected wid- get. Alt + / Show a list of available key-bindings for the current widget in focus. Alt + > Switch to the next workspace Alt + < Switch to the previous workspace Alt + t Tag (or untag) the current window Alt + T Attached all the tagged windows to the current workspace Alt + s Show the workspace list F9 Create a new workspace and switch to it FILES ~/.gntrc: configuration file for gnt applications. A sample file looks like: [Finch] color-available = green; black color-away = blue; black color-idle = gray; black color-offline = red; black color-message-sent = cyan; default color-message-received = red; default color-message-highlight = black; green color-message-action = yellow; default color-timestamp = blue; default #See below for details on color [general] shadow = 0 # There is experimental mouse support mouse = 1 # To use some custom window-manager wm = /usr/local/lib/gnt/s.so # There's also a custom window manager called irssi.so # Remember window-positions based on the titles (on by default) remember_position = 1 # Use borderless one-line high buttons small-button = true # Workspaces are created simply by adding Workspace-X groups as follows: [Workspace-1] name = blist # window-names specifies that windows with these semi-colon sep- arated names are placed into this workspace window-names = buddylist;debug-window [Workspace-2] name = IM window-names = conversation-window # window-titles specifies that windows with these semi-colon separated titles are placed into this workspace. These are matched as substrings. Window titles take precedence over names. window-titles = Preferences;Pounce [colors] # The RGB values range in [0, 1000] black = 0; 0; 0 red = 1000; 0; 0 green = 0; 1000; 0 blue = 250; 250; 700 white = 1000; 1000; 1000 gray = 700; 700; 700 darkgray = 256; 256; 256 [colorpairs] normal = white; black highlight = white; blue highlightd = black; gray shadow = black; darkgray title = white; blue titled = white; gray text = white; blue disabled = gray; black urgent = green; black # Remap some keys for GntEntry [GntEntry::remap] # Remap the up-arrow to the left-arrow ^[[A = ^[[D # Remap the down-arrow to the right-arrow ^[[B = ^[[C # Remap 'a' to 'bcd' a = bcd # Completely ignore the key 'q' q = # But the following will NOT work #abc = bcd # Hitting 'space' will activate a button [GntButton::remap] \ = \r Widget Actions You can specify key-bindings for specific widgets. The following en- tries in ~/.gntrc correspond to the default keybindings for the ac- tions: [GntBox::binding] tab = focus-next right = focus-next left = focus-prev [GntComboBox::binding] down = dropdown up = dropdown [GntEntry::binding] c-a = cursor-home home = cursor-home c-e = cursor-end end = cursor-end backspace = delete-prev del = delete-next c-d = delete-next c-u = delete-start c-k = delete-end c-b = cursor-prev left = cursor-prev c-f = cursor-next right = cursor-next tab = suggest-show down = suggest-next up = suggest-prev page-down = suggest-next-page page-up = suggest-prev-page c-w = delete-prev-word a-b = cursor-prev-word a-f = cursor-next-word a-d = delete-next-word c-v = clipboard-paste c-p = history-prev c-n = history-next c-r = history-search c-up = history-prev c-down = history-next [GntTree::binding] up = move-up down = move-down c-n = move-down c-p = move-up pageup = page-up pagedown = page-down backspace = move-parent home = move-first end = move-last # Following is the default binding for the context-menu menu = context-menu # The following will let you open the context-menu in the buddylist with c-b # c-b = context-menu [GntWidget::binding] f11 = context-menu c-x = context-menu [GntWindow::binding] c-o = show-menu f10 = show-menu The c- corresponds to the Control key. You can also use ctrl- or ctr- or ctl- to indicate a combination. For alt-keys, you can use one of a-, alt-, m- or meta-. You can also use home, end, left, right etc. keys. To unbind a key which has a default binding, you simply bind it to the empty string. For example, to unbind Alt + q from the Quit function, you would use: [GntWM::binding] a-q = Menus You can also specify key-bindings to trigger specific menuitems in win- dows. For example, the following entry in ~/.gntrc will bind Ctrl + t to the 'Send IM...' item in the buddylist: [buddylist::menu] c-t = send-im The following is the list of IDs of the current menuitems in the bud- dylist: send-im join-chat show-empty-groups show-offline-buddies sort-status sort-alpha sort-log add-buddy add-chat add-group Mouse Support There is experimental mouse support. You can focus windows, activate buttons, select rows in a list, scroll using the wheel-scroll etc. Se- lecting text in a text-view copies it to the gnt clipboard. Mouse sup- port is disabled by default, so you need to enable it in ~/.gntrc (see the sample above). Window Management The default window management is very limited. But it is possible to write custom window managers to suit your needs. There is a sample win- dow-manager included (named s.so) which adds a little 'close-button' for the windows, removes the borders from the buddylist and pops up new windows in the middle of the screen, instead of at the upper-left corder. It is provided as a sample simple manager, but it should be possible to write more complex managers, and it's very possible that the window-manager API will need to be enhanced. Look at the sample ~/.gntrc file above to see how to select a window-manager. It is also possible to rebind the window-manager actions in ~/.gntrc, eg: [GntWM::binding] a-n = window-next a-p = window-prev a-c = window-close a-w = window-list a-d = dump-screen a-, = shift-left a-. = shift-right a-a = action-list a-m = start-move a-r = start-resize a-q = wm-quit a-l = refresh-screen a-s = workspace-list a-t = window-tag a-T = place-tagged a-C = toggle-clipboard a-/ = help-for-widget a-c-j = window-scroll-down a-c-k = window-scroll-up # The following action is still incomplete, and doesn't have a default binding # switch-window-n # Other actions: window-next-urgent, window-prev-urgent # For the sample custom window manager [GntS::binding] a-b = toggle-buddylist # For the irssi window manager [Irssi::binding] a-L = move-right a-H = move-left a-J = move-down a-K = move-up Conversation Commands There are a few helpful commands in addition to the regular commands. You can use these from any conversation to access other windows. accounts for the accounts window. buddylist for the buddylist. debugwin for the debug window. plugins for the plugins window. prefs for the preferences window. status for the status window. FAQ FAQ for finch is located at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch BUGS Known bugs are listed at http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=re- opened&component=finch+%28gnt%2Fncurses%29&order=priority Before sending a bug report, please verify that you have the latest version of finch and libpurple. Many bugs (major and minor) are fixed at each release, and if yours is out of date, the problem may already have been solved. PATCHES If you fix a bug in finch (or otherwise enhance it), please submit a patch (using mtn diff > my.diff against the latest version from the Mo- notone repository) at http://developer.pidgin.im/simpleticket You are also encouraged to drop by at #pidgin on irc.libera.chat to discuss development. SEE ALSO http://pidgin.im/ http://developer.pidgin.im/ purple-remote(1) pidgin(1) LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1301 USA AUTHORS Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <sadrul@users.sourceforge.net> This manpage was written by Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <sadrul@users.sourceforge.net> and Dennis Ristuccia <dennis@den- nisr.net>. finch(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | GNT Shortcuts | FILES | Widget Actions | Menus | Mouse Support | Window Management | Conversation Commands | FAQ | BUGS | PATCHES | SEE ALSO | LICENSE | AUTHORS
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