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Re: X-chat: odds and ends questions

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On Monday 24 June 2002 07:51, contactbox@softhome.net wrote:

> I have a few mixed questions and requests. I'm sure they are common
> ones but - go on someone, make a newbie smile :) Or at least save me
> hours trawling through the archives and maybe address these all in
> one go...

	I'm never one to belittle trawling through the archives, but I can 
answer a few here... some I must leave to others.  :)

> (1) I am active on three different networks/channels. On each, I use
> different "ident-names" and "real-names" information. On WIndows/mIRC
> its easy - I installed mIRC 3 times with different defaults for each.
> Can anyone suggest a solution I could use for Xchat? (I'd do the same
> only I cant figure out where in the code it defines the settings
> file. So each would overwrite the others settings. Perhaps theres a
> more elegant solution?)

	Richard has given one way to do this (the --cfgdir option).  The way 
I've been doing it is to create another user account on my box (your 
distibution may have a cute, graphical way to do this; if you can't 
find it, there's always the "adduser" command-line tool).  Now, the new 
user account has its own home directory, in which Xchat's (and any 
other program's) settings will be stored.  You can run Xchat as this 
other user by opening a command window and running "su -c username 
command",[1] then entering the password for that user -- and once you 
know this, it shouldn't be too hard to set up an icon or menu item from 
your desktop.[2]  (You may have to do something like "xhost +localhost" 
in your .xinitrc, if X declines to allow that user to run programs 
using your display.)
	I think this is more elegant because not only are *all* settings run 
by this user saved, with no special effort on my part, the other user 
automatically shows up as a separate person if the IRC server queries 
your identd.  (I also use separate Gtk+ color schemes for each user, so 
that I can tell who I am by looking at the color of the Xchat window. ;)

[1] This means, "Start a new login session for this user, and run this 
command in it.  When the command (in this case, Xchat) ends, log the 
user out."

[2] For instance, in KDE when you make a program icon, you have a space 
to specify, "Run this command as another user."  You can even specify 
the password there, if you're not worried about someone with access to 
your hard drive (or your desk chair) reading it.

> (2) Likewise on each I save my logs to a different place, have
> different words to highlight - again, do I have 3 different settings
> files for 3 different versions, and where might I specify the
> location of each?

	Using the multi-user method, each user would have logs and such saved 
in its home directory, just like they are for your normal everyday 
account.

	Regarding the rest of your questions... mostly I either don't use 
those features, or use them little enough that I don't know much about 
them.  (Highlighting, ports...)
	About the color toolbox popping up... since there is no menu item for 
it, you can't use (or add, which Gtk allows you to do by pointing with 
the mouse at a menu item, then pressing the key you want to change it 
to) a shortcut key to open it.  This and making the input field 
multi-line would require code changes.  I'd suggest you put in an 
enhancement request for those.  :)  Such requests are, in part, how 
Xchat got to be as good as it is now!

> Meantime thanks for an excellent program. I hope to learn more as
> time goes on.

	Most of us do.  The rest of us are dead.  ;)

Good luck,

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