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| author | published | title | description | category | |
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| ~alexlehm | true | getting started with weechat on a tilde machine | run weechat as a local irc client |
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If you want to run irc on your tilde account, you can use weechat which is installed and requires minimal configuration.
First connection
Start weechat on your linux shell and type the following commands:
/server add tilde localhost/6667
/connect tilde
This will connect you to the irc network via the local machine using a regular connection (which is secure enough since it stays on the local machine). The username used is the same as your linux account, this is should be unique, if it is not you will be called username1 or similar, then you should chose another nickname. You do that by using the /nick command
/nick username
If you didn't chose a username that is unique in the tilde network, you had kind of bad luck.
Register
You now can register your username using your tilde email address as described here: (nicks)
After you have done that, you can set the username and password in the weechat settings to automatically log in and authenticate
/set irc.server.tilde.sasl_username <username>
/set irc.server.tilde.sasl_password <password>
Now disconnect and connect again to get your registered nickname
/quit
run weechat again /connect tilde
Now you can join any channel, e.g. #helpdesk