Irssi

Irssi ( ) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.

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Software.name: Irssi
Software.logo: [[Image:Irssi.svg|200px|Irssi Logo]|class=skin-invert]]
Software.screenshot: Irssi 1.2.3 screenshot.png
Software.screenshot size: 200px
Software.caption: A screenshot of Irssi.
Software.author: Timo Sirainen
Software.developer: The Irssi team
Software.programming language: C, Perl
Software.operating_system: Cross-platform
Software.genre: IRC client
Software.license: GPL-2.0-or-later

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Irssi is a modular text mode chat client. It comes with IRC support built in, and there are third party ICB, SILC, XMPP (Jabber), PSYC and Quassel protocol modules available. Requirements glib-2.32 or greater openssl perl-5.8 or greater (for perl support) terminfo or ncurses (for text frontend) Irssi is always looking for developers. Feel free to submit patches through GitHub pull requests.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: irssi.org
Image: Irssi 1.2.3 screenshot.png

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Commons category: Irssi
source code repository URL: github.com/irssi/irssi
software version identifier: 1.4.5
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/irssi
inception: 1999-00-00

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The program has a text-based user interface written from scratch using C. It may be customized by editing its config files or by installing plugins and Perl scripts. Though initially developed for Unix-like operating systems, it has been successfully ported to both Windows and macOS.