telepathy-idle(8)

telepathy-idle8

Telepathy connection manager for irc

Usage

/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-idle

Overview

Idle implements the Telepathy D-Bus specification for Internet Relay Chat, allowing Telepathy clients like empathy(1) to connect to IRC servers.

It is a D-Bus service which runs on the session bus, and should usually be started automatically by D-Bus activation. However, it might be useful to start it manually for debugging.

Options

There are no command-line options.

Environment

IDLE_LOGFILE=filename

If set, debug output will go to the given file rather than to stderr. If + is prepended to the filename (e.g. IDLE_LOGFILE=+idle.log), debug output will be appended to the file; otherwise, any existing file will be replaced.

IDLE_DEBUG=type

May be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options (which may change from release to release) to filter the output.

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–Arch

From telepathy-idle 0.2.2-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.