Irssi
Sign in to saveIrssi ( ) 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.
Key facts
- 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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Source code
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.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 2,305 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- irssi.org
- Image
- Irssi 1.2.3 screenshot.png
- Has use
- IRC
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- operating system
- Cygwin
- Commons category
- Irssi
- programmed in
- Perl
- depends on software
- ncurses
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- GUI toolkit or framework
- ncurses
- source code repository URL
- github.com/irssi/irssi
- software quality assurance
- continuous integration
- software version identifier
- 1.4.5
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.libera.chat/irssi
- inception
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Features
- Distributions
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irssi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.