free, distributed and user-friendly IRC client with Twitter,
and XMPP/Jabber support for Linux, Windows and macOS
based on GNOME / GTK+
And here we go again! We're proud to announce the new version of Smuxi, release 1.0 "Finally". During the development, 20 bug reports and 10 feature requests in 285 commits were worked on.
Smuxi is celebrating its 10th anniversary! 10 years ago, Mirco Bauer made the first commit to the Smuxi source code repository and is still very committed to it. He started the Gnosmirc project in 2005 when the only way a 24/7 "always-on" experience with IRC meant you had to use a console based IRC client like bitchx, irssi or epic combined with screen and SSH. This looks very practical at first and is a powerful Unix-ish way of accomplishing that job, but it has the big downside that it doesn't integrate with a desktop environment like GNOME. A bit later the Gnosmirc project was renamed to Smuxi when the new code architecture allowed other frontend implementations besides the GNOME one. The ncurses/STFL based text frontend was later implemented and is considered stable and useful enough for day to day use, but still has some rough edges. WinForms and WPF frontends also exist but need more work to reach a usable state.
At this point Smuxi 1.0 contains all features that we could have imagined and even goes beyond with very advanced features like message patterns or language agnostic scripting.
One of the biggest drawbacks of the IRC protocol ever was that messages can't be retrieved from the IRC server because the IRC server is simply relaying messages to the connected clients. So, if an IRC client is freshly started and connects it starts to receive new messages, but all message you had received before are no longer available. This always made IRC in a way "volatile" unlike other communication systems like email where messages are relayed and stored on the client side. One common approach for IRC clients is to store log files in a text file. This is a simple feature and gives the user the possibility to read older conversations. Smuxi also supports text file logging like other IRC clients but it has a big user experience drawback as you need to open the file from the disk outside of the IRC client.
In Smuxi 1.0 messages sent and received are now stored on the disk in a way they can automatically be retrieved/loaded when you restart Smuxi. It is like you have never closed Smuxi! This feature was already available in Smuxi for some time as a technical preview and it used the Db4o object database, but we were never happy about the performance neither with the stability so it always stayed an optional feature you need to enable. This year we tried a new message buffer backend using the famous SQLite database and it works much faster and stable as a rock. So finally we can enable this feature by default because it just works and enhanced your experience. We hope you enjoy it.
Documentation of how you can change Smuxi message buffer backend and behavior can be found here.
For instructions how to convert your existing db4o history to SQLite can be found in the "smuxi-message-buffer tool" section.
This is a new commandline tool that allows you to convert and export the message history of Smuxi message buffer files. This can be used to convert your existing Db4o history to SQLite like this for example:
for DB_DB4O in $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/buffers/*/*/*/*.db4o; do
DB_SQLITE=${DB_DB4O/.db4o/.sqlite3}
smuxi-message-buffer convert $DB_DB4O $DB_SQLITE
done
Smuxi shouldn't be running when using this tool.
Smuxi 1.0 supports with the following new hook points:
The following new plugins are supported by Smuxi 1.0:
Contributors to this release are the following people:
Thank you very much for your contributions to Smuxi!
Want this? Go here and grab it right now!
And here we go again! We're proud to announce the new version of Smuxi, release 0.11 "Distractions". During the development, 11 bug reports and 2 feature requests in 112 commits were worked on. Notable highlights in this release are:
Smuxi cares for user feedback. Multi identity support was the most voted feature and thus it has been implemented! Now you can please your schizo^Wdesire to use different nicks, users and real names depending on the server. Simply edit the server in preferences and change the details.
Everybody knows text can be boring because it is all just text. Nothing can sidetrack you except reading that bare text. Text often has recurring patterns from which something useful and interactive can be created. For example, someone writes:
Hey meebey, do you know RFC2812?
RFCs are a recurring pattern with a distinct number behind it and are real references to something in the internet (collection of protocol specifications).
So I would usually fire up a browser tab, copy/paste or type RFC2812 into my favorite search engine and click the first hit. Then I'd reply to the question afterwards. But with Smuxi's message patters, it turns RFC2812 into a link on which you can simply click to launch the relevant document.
Wow this is very cool, but isn't this already happening with http URLs and email addresses? Exactly! Why shouldn't more information be used to create useful things from it? Smuxi message patterns allow you to define text patterns that are transformed into clickable links. This can be used for RFCs, CVEs, bug report numbers (#XXX), git commit hashes and much more. Make good use of your creativity!
By default Smuxi comes with built-in message patterns for:
If you know more general patterns useful for others, please submit them.
For a full list of built-in message patterns or how to add your own patterns, head over to the message pattern documentation.
As of 14 Jan 2014, Twitter disallows unencrypted HTTP requests which broke Smuxi's Twitter support. Smuxi is now making exclusively encrypted requests (HTTPS) and thus works with Twitter again.
Smuxi should now be in your language, including:
Contributors to this release are the following people:
Thank you very much for your contributions to Smuxi!
Want it? Go here and grab it right now!
And here we go again! We're proud to announce the new version of Smuxi, release 0.10 "Unexpected". During the development, 12 bug reports and 8 feature requests in 259 commits were worked on. Notable highlights in this release are:
After years of waiting we are more than happy to finally announce the added
scripting support in Smuxi! You are probably thinking right now "so which
scripting language is it?! C#? VB.NET? JavaScript? Perl? Python? Ruby? Maybe
even PHP?" and here comes the best part: ALL OF THEM AND MORE! More? What
else there would be... well, if you really want you can write Smuxi hooks in C,
C++ or even assembler 
It's Magic! No, just kidding. This is pure Unix technology taken from the 70s ported to a powerful messaging client. If you know what Git hooks, Nagios checks/plugins or CGI scripts are, then you already know what Smuxi hooks are, if you don't then continue reading this paragraph. Any executable program in a special location (hook points) will be executed when a specific event happens, like receiving a message. This program gets all information passed as environment variables, like who send the message (SENDER), what was the message (MSG), when was it received (MSG_TIMESTAMP_UNIX) etc. This program is also able to execute Smuxi commands by writing hook commands to the standard output.
Currently there are 2 main types of Smuxi hooks:
Smuxi hooks are maintained in the smuxi-hooks git repository. So if you want to share your written hook simply create a pull request against that repository on GitHub, other Smuxi users will be very thankful! Right now thre are only 2 proof-of-concept hooks available:
"Wow, I am completely amazed, but how can I install hooks?" For now you will need to either download the files of the hook into the same location into $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/hooks or by cloning the git repository and symlinking the files. Here is an example for each method:
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/hooks/frontend/command-manager/command-np/
cd $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/hooks/frontend/command-manager/command-np/
wget https://raw.github.com/meebey/smuxi-hooks/master/now-playing/frontend/command-manager/command-np/now-playing.sh
chmod +x now-playing.sh
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/meebey/smuxi-hooks.git
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/hooks/frontend/command-manager/command-np/
cd $HOME/.local/share/smuxi/hooks/frontend/command-manager/command-np/
ln -s $HOME/smuxi-hooks/now-playing/frontend/command-manager/command-np/now-playing.sh
Smuxi should now be in your language, including:
Contributors to this release are the following people:
Thank you very much for your contributions to Smuxi!
Want this? Go right here, right now!
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