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10:49:37
Colleen
<selwyn> today i will switch to weechat for all my chatting needs
10:49:43
Colleen
<selwyn> in large part so that i can use lichat natively
10:49:56
Colleen
<selwyn> any recommendations for clients on windows/linux? i like a graphical client
10:50:03
Colleen
<shinmera> weelichat has a bunch of problems still, as you might have gathered from the discussions here.
10:50:29
Colleen
<selwyn> what do you use?
10:50:44
Colleen
<shinmera> uuuh, weechat itself is cli-only. it has a bridge with which you can then use a graphical client like glowing bear.
10:50:49
Colleen
<shinmera> I use weechat through tmux.
10:51:03
Colleen
<shinmera> and sometimes I use the android client on the go
10:51:43
Colleen
<shinmera> my weechat instance runs on one of my servers
10:51:58
Colleen
<shinmera> so I don't have connection issues and such
10:52:32
Colleen
<shinmera> SAL9000 is the local weechat expert though :)
10:58:12
Colleen
<selwyn> plan is to have weechat running on my server and tunnel in with one of the clients
10:58:21
Colleen
<selwyn> 'lith' seems like the best option for windows
10:59:07
Colleen
<shinmera> If you don't hate browser clients, glowing bear is the best I've seen
11:00:20
Colleen
<shinmera> on windows I still use tmux, just through a mingw64 terminal/ssh.
11:00:37
Colleen
<shinmera> or, actually, with the ssh extension enabled you can use the basic powershell, too.
11:04:54
Colleen
<selwyn> yeah i don't prefer browser clients
11:05:18
Colleen
<selwyn> or those other options
11:08:21
SAL9000
selwyn: I'm running weechat on my NAS in tmux, ssh'ing in from Windows via MSYS2 (aka the "modern" MinGW)
11:08:40
SAL9000
glowing-bear works but it's not as good as native weechat imo
11:09:01
Colleen
<shinmera> he's not here atm
11:09:30
SAL9000
ah. can't see membership from the other side. hopefully I can find some time to hack on weelichat again soon
12:42:53
Colleen
<sellers> sal9000: yeah am doing similar. except i prefer putty for windows sshing
12:43:25
Colleen
<sellers> great all the logs are here
12:43:31
Colleen
<shinmera> why the name change?
12:43:38
SAL9000
last time I tried putty, it couldn't deal with a lot of the control sequences
12:43:43
SAL9000
e.g. mouse mode, 256 colors
12:44:17
Colleen
<sellers> i am already connected as 'selwyn' through the irc bridge i didn't want a name clash to mess things up
12:44:34
Colleen
<shinmera> Register your account on https://auth.tymoon.eu/register
12:44:49
Colleen
<shinmera> Amazed you haven't yet, actually
12:45:18
Colleen
<shinmera> esp. since multiple connections is one of the best things about this
12:50:52
Colleen
<selwyn> so i can connect under the irc bridge at the same time?
12:51:01
Colleen
<shinmera> sure if you like.
12:51:40
Colleen
<shinmera> though because IRC is dumb you will not be getting messages on your IRC connection that you wrote from another connection.
12:51:51
Colleen
<selwyn> yes i see that
13:07:52
Colleen
<selwyn> i'm having trouble setting up autojoining
13:09:56
Colleen
<selwyn> well, doesn't matter that much for now
13:21:40
Colleen
<selwyn> none of the windows clients look that nice tbh
13:26:26
Colleen
<shinmera> selwyn: autojoin list is separated by double spaces
13:26:33
Colleen
<shinmera> if that's the issue you were facing.
13:26:42
Colleen
<selwyn> already did that..
13:27:08
Colleen
<shinmera> then you might be hitting a bug.
13:27:44
Colleen
<shinmera> If only someone had time to fix this client's bugs........................................
13:28:00
Colleen
<shinmera> (not talking about anyone in particular)
13:29:19
Colleen
<selwyn> i have decided that if i manage to leave university before i die, it would be nice to do some coding again
13:33:51
Colleen
<selwyn> will glowing bear let me see the reactions and emotes?
13:34:22
Colleen
<shinmera> it will do images though.
13:39:01
Colleen
<selwyn> and now a windows client is set up
13:40:46
Colleen
<selwyn> weird that a desktop client works but glowing bear doesn't
13:41:14
Colleen
<selwyn> *prefers armed bears*