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24 Finch \- A Pimpin' Penguin console frontend to libpurple. Instant
28 \fBfinch3 \fI[options]\fR
32 \fBfinch3\fR is a console-based modular messaging client based on libpurple
33 which is capable of connecting to AIM, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC,
34 Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, and QQ all at once. It has
35 many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features.
36 Finch is not endorsed by or affiliated with America Online, ICQ, or Microsoft.
39 The following options are provided by \fBfinch3\fR using the standard GNU
42 .B \-c, \-\-config=\fIDIR\fB
43 Use \fIDIR\fR as the directory for config files instead of \fI~/.purple\fR.
46 Print debugging messages to stderr and start with the \fBDebug\fR window. The
47 messages shown in the \fBDebug\fR window are the same as the ones printed in
51 Print this help and exit.
54 Don't automatically login when \fBfinch3\fR starts. Sets all accounts to
58 Display the version information window.
61 You can use the following shortcuts (see the "Widget Actions" section for a more complete list):
64 Bring up a list of available actions. You can use this list to access the
65 accounts window, plugins window, preference window etc.
68 Go to the next window.
71 Go to the previous window.
74 Show the list of windows. You can select and jump to any window from the list.
77 Close the current window.
83 Start moving a window. Press the cursor keys to move the window. When you are
84 done, press \fBEnter\fR or \fBEscape\fR.
87 Start resizing a window. Press the cursor keys to resize the window. When you
88 are done, press \fBEnter\fR or \fBEscape\fR.
91 Dump the contents of the screen in HTML format.
94 Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the
98 Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the
102 Refresh the windows. This is useful after resizing the terminal window.
105 Jump to the 1st, 2nd ... 10th window.
108 Jump to the next URGENT (highlighted) window.
110 .B Alt \+ Shift \+ Tab
111 Jump to the previous URGENT (highlighted) window.
113 .B Ctrl \+ o \fR or \fB F10
114 Bring up the menu (if there is one) for a window.
116 .B F11 \fR or \fB Ctrl \+ x
117 Popup the context menu (if there is one) for the selected widget.
120 Show a list of available key-bindings for the current widget in focus.
123 Switch to the next workspace
126 Switch to the previous workspace
129 Tag (or untag) the current window
132 Attached all the tagged windows to the current workspace
135 Show the workspace list
138 Create a new workspace and switch to it
141 \fI~/.gntrc\fR: configuration file for gnt applications.
144 A sample file looks like:
148 color-available = green; black
150 color-away = blue; black
152 color-idle = gray; black
154 color-offline = red; black
156 color-message-sent = cyan; default
158 color-message-received = red; default
160 color-message-highlight = black; green
162 color-message-action = yellow; default
164 color-timestamp = blue; default
166 #See below for details on color
173 # There is experimental mouse support
177 # To use some custom window-manager
179 wm = /usr/local/lib/gnt/s.so
181 # There's also a custom window manager called irssi.so
183 # Remember window-positions based on the titles (on by default)
185 remember_position = 1
187 # Use borderless one-line high buttons
192 # Workspaces are created simply by adding Workspace-X groups as follows:
198 # window-names specifies that windows with these semi-colon separated names are placed
201 window-names = buddylist;debug-window
209 window-names = conversation-window
211 # window-titles specifies that windows with these semi-colon separated titles are placed
212 into this workspace. These are matched as substrings. Window titles take precedence over
215 window-titles = Preferences;Pounce
221 # The RGB values range in [0, 1000]
231 white = 1000; 1000; 1000
235 darkgray = 256; 256; 256
241 normal = white; black
243 highlight = white; blue
245 highlightd = black; gray
247 shadow = black; darkgray
255 disabled = gray; black
257 urgent = green; black
261 # Remap some keys for GntEntry
265 # Remap the up-arrow to the left-arrow
269 # Remap the down-arrow to the right-arrow
277 # Completely ignore the key 'q'
281 # But the following will NOT work
286 # Hitting 'space' will activate a button
294 You can specifiy key-bindings for specific widgets. The following entries in
295 \fI~/.gntrc\fR correspond to the default keybindings for the actions:
307 [GntComboBox::binding]
324 backspace = delete-prev
348 page-down = suggest-next-page
350 page-up = suggest-prev-page
352 c-w = delete-prev-word
354 a-b = cursor-prev-word
356 a-f = cursor-next-word
358 a-d = delete-next-word
360 c-v = clipboard-paste
370 c-down = history-next
387 backspace = move-parent
393 # Following is the default binding for the context-menu
397 # The following will let you open the context-menu in the buddylist with c-b
414 The \fBc-\fR corresponds to the \fBControl\fR key. You can also use \fBctrl-\fR
415 or \fBctr-\fR or \fBctl-\fR to indicate a combination. For alt-keys, you can use
416 one of \fBa-\fR, \fBalt-\fR, \fBm-\fR or \fBmeta-\fR. You can also use
417 \fBhome\fR, \fBend\fR, \fBleft\fR, \fBright\fR etc. keys.
419 To unbind a key which has a default binding, you simply bind it to the empty string. For example, to unbind \fBAlt + q\fR from the Quit function, you would use:
426 You can also specify key-bindings to trigger specific menuitems in windows. For example, the following entry in \fI~/.gntrc\fR will bind \fBCtrl + t\fR to the 'Send IM...' item in the buddylist:
432 The following is the list of IDs of the current menuitems in the buddylist:
455 There is experimental mouse support. You can focus windows, activate buttons,
456 select rows in a list, scroll using the wheel-scroll etc. Selecting text in a
457 text-view copies it to the gnt clipboard. Mouse support is disabled by default,
458 so you need to enable it in \fI~/.gntrc\fR (see the sample above).
460 .SH Window Management
461 The default window management is very limited. But it is possible to write
462 custom window managers to suit your needs. There is a sample window-manager
463 included (named \fIs.so\fR) which adds a little 'close-button' for the windows,
464 removes the borders from the buddylist and pops up new windows in the middle of
465 the screen, instead of at the upper-left corder. It is provided as a sample
466 simple manager, but it should be possible to write more complex managers, and
467 it's very possible that the window-manager API will need to be enhanced. Look at
468 the sample \fI~/.gntrc\fR file above to see how to select a window-manager.
470 It is also possible to rebind the window-manager actions in \fI~/.gntrc\fR, eg:
505 a-C = toggle-clipboard
507 a-/ = help-for-widget
509 a-c-j = window-scroll-down
511 a-c-k = window-scroll-up
513 # The following action is still incomplete, and doesn't have a default binding
517 # Other actions: window-next-urgent, window-prev-urgent
519 # For the sample custom window manager
523 a-b = toggle-buddylist
525 # For the irssi window manager
537 .SH Conversation Commands
538 There are a few helpful commands in addition to the regular commands. You can
539 use these from any conversation to access other windows.
543 for the accounts window.
551 for the debug window.
555 for the plugins window.
559 for the preferences window.
563 for the status window.
566 FAQ for \fBfinch3\fR is located at
568 \fIhttps://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch\fR
571 Known bugs are listed at
573 \fIhttps://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=finch+%28gnt%2Fncurses%29&order=priority\fR
575 Before sending a bug report, please verify that you have the latest
576 version of \fBfinch3\fR and libpurple. Many bugs (major and minor) are
577 fixed at each release, and if yours is out of date, the problem may already have
581 If you fix a bug in \fBfinch3\fR (or otherwise enhance it), please submit a
582 patch (using \fBhg diff > my.diff\fR against the latest version from the
583 Mercurial repository) at \fIhttps://developer.pidgin.im/newticket\fR
585 You are also encouraged to drop by at \fB#pidgin\fR on \fIirc.freenode.net\fR
586 to discuss development.
589 \fIhttps://pidgin.im/\fR
591 \fIhttps://developer.pidgin.im/\fR
596 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
597 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
598 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
599 (at your option) any later version.
601 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
602 \fBWITHOUT ANY WARRANTY\fR; without even the implied warranty of
603 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
604 General Public License for more details.
606 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
607 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
608 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1301 USA
611 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <\fIsadrul@users.sourceforge.net\fR>
614 This manpage was written by Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
615 <\fIsadrul@users.sourceforge.net\fR> and Dennis Ristuccia
616 <\fIdennis@dennisr.net\fR>.