konversation(1)

konversation1

User friendly irc client for kde

Usage

konversation [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options]

Overview

Konversation is client for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.

IRC is a great way to meet friends on the net, make new acquaintances and lose yourself in talk about your favorite subject.

Konversation is under active development and is currently in beta.

Options

All KDE and Qt programs accept a some common command-line options.

Generic options:

--help

Show help about options

--help-qt

Show Qt specific options

--help-kde

Show KDE specific options

--help-all

Show all options

--author

Show author information

-v, --version

Show version information

--license

Show license information

--

Indicates end of options

Options

--server {server}

Server to connect

--port {port}

Port to use (default: 6667)

--channel {channel}

Channel to join after connection

--nick {nickname}

Nickname to use

--password {password}

Password for connection

--ssl

Use SSL for connection (default: false)

Scripting

Konversation looks for scripts in /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts and in ~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts. To execute a script, use the exec command:

/exec {scriptname} [arguments]

For example:

/exec gauge 75

Files

~/.kde/share/config/konversationrc

Main configuration

~/.kde/share/config/konversation.eventsrc

Notification settings

~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/logs

Directory containing channel log files

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0

--channel since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --nick since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --password since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --port since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --server since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --ssl since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

Nathaniel W Turner <[email protected]>

Author.

From konversation 1.1-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.