Salut à toi's console interface
primitivus [ --profile=PROFILE | --help ]
Primitivus is Salut à Toi's console interface, based on Urwid.
Primitivus is modal (vi-like), one can switch from one mode to another in the same way as in vi/vim:
From any mode, press [Esc] to switch to normal mode.
From normal mode, press : to switch to command mode.
From normal mode, press i to switch to insert mode — the one you use to write messages to your contacts.
Primitivus can be handled either with the mouse, in a very intuitive way, or with the keyboard. The keyboard shortcuts are explained in the section KEYBOARD HANDLING.
--profile=PROFILE -p PROFILE
select the profile to use
--help -h
display a help message and quit
In the sequel we use the following shortcuts:
C stands for Ctrl
M means Meta, on a PC it is usually the Alt key
S stands for Shift
C-x
quit Primitivus
[tab] C-up/down arrow
change focus
C-f 1 C-f m
focus on the menu
C-f 2 C-f b
focus on the roster or the chat window
C-f 3 C-f e
focus on the edition line
M-m
display/hide the menu
C-n
show the next notification
C-s
hide/redisplay a pop-up window temporarily
F2
hide/display the roster
C-l
refresh the screen
M-j
join a chat room
M-p
hide/display the list of participants
M-t
hide/display timestamps
M-n
use/don't use short nicks
M-l
hide/display frame decorations
M-s
change the room's topic appearance by switching between:
one single line (the topic is cut if it's too long)
the full topic
topic hidden
C-a [home]
move the cursor at the beginning of the line
C-e [end]
move the cursor at the end of the line
C-k
erase the line, starting at the cursor's position
C-w
erase the last word
S-[tab]
invoke completion (dependent on the context)
up/down arrows
browse sent messages history
M-d
hide/display offline contacts
M-s
hide/display contacts' status messages
space
select a card
The following commands must be typed in command mode (type [Esc] to switch to normal mode, then the : at the beginning of the command will switch to command mode).
:quit
quit Primitivus
:messages
display log messages (see also the SAT_LOG_LEVEL environment variable in sat(1))
:presence [status]
set your presence status. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to choose your presence status; otherwise, you can use the following arguments:
online
chat
(free to chat)
away
(away from keyboard)
dnd
(do not disturb)
xa
(extended away)
:status [message]
set your status message. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to enter a message.
:history
set the number of lines of history to display in the chat window (:history 0 to clear the window)
Salut à Toi was written by Jérôme Poisson <[email protected]>.
This man page was converted from the help message and Salut à Toi's wiki by Matteo Cypriani <[email protected]> for the Debian distribution (2013). It is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA 3.0).