Hey Karl, Also, you might want to point out that irssi is a real slick terminal chat client used for irc. About irssi though, I haven't used it in a while - my favorite feature of gaim is its ability to do aliasing? Does bitlbee/irssi have some way of interpreting aliases? Also, I know its annoying when someone offers you an alternative rather than the solution to what your trying to do, but I will point out that their is this awesome free internet-chat client called meebo ( <a href="http://www.meebo.com"> www.meebo.com</a> ) that does aliasing and logs (my primary reason for previously using gaim). -- Best Regards, Florian Mettetal <div>On 8/18/06, Karl Schuttler <<a href="mailto:rexykik@gmail.com">rexykik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> GLLUG, I was wondering if you guys knew any neat bitlbee configurations. If you don't know what bitlbee is, it is a irc gateway to other various protocols. ie, rather than using gaim or something like that to connect all your accounts at once, you instead use an irc client (xchat, irssi, etc) to connect to a bitlbee server. You log into the bitlbee server, and all the accounts you have registered for it connect. In the channel (chat room) list, all your friends/contacts show up like a normal irc user. I know some people used bitlbee quite extensively, especially those working for Liquidweb/corecom. I was wondering what kind of configurations you guys used, not just in bitlbee, but on your server, in order to have greater convenience. My dilemma is that I have two computers at home, a terminal at work, and a laptop. Every time I sit down somewhere, I usually log into gaim with my various accounts. What this usually means is that I have multiple connections to the same service. If my computer at home idles and puts up an away message, then I will look like I am away even when I am not. Also, sometimes I will leave work to go home, and someone will message me in transit to either something I had said previously, or a new message. When I get back, I will only see one side of whatever they said. My plan is this: Set up a bitlbee server at work. I would do this because I don't feel like giving some other server all my password information. Then open ssh for my user. Start a screen session, and in the screen session start irssi. Log into bitlbee from there. Then leave it logged in, and from wherever I am, attach my screen and go. Any thoughts, ideas, etc? Karl _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user"> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>