Today, we shall learn how to make irssi connect to servers, join channels and open queries on startup.<\/p>\n
Let’s assume that we want irssi to automatically connect to the following networks, join these channels and open these queries:<\/p>\n
To accomplish this all, we shall first configure the irc networks, then the servers of each network, and then the channels and queries in the correct windows.<\/p>\n
Let’s get to work. First of all, start irssi in a screen<\/a> or tmux<\/a>.<\/p>\n To list all IRC networks that irssi knows by default, type<\/p>\n The output is:<\/p>\n As you can see, EFnet<\/a> and QuakeNet<\/a> are already there, but CNQnet is not. Let’s add that network:<\/p>\n We also want to make sure that irssi uses the correct nickname, username and realname on EFnet and QuakeNet:<\/p>\n Note that you need to use \/network add<\/strong> to change the settings of an already existing network. The network configuration should be good now; let’s verify that with \/network list<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Looking good!\u00a0Time to configure the servers.<\/p>\n When you type<\/p>\n you can see the servers per network that have already been defined in the default configuration of irssi:<\/p>\n The QuakeNet configuration already uses the correct server. However, it does not automatically connect on startup, so we need to fix that. Also, the EFnet config uses the wrong server for us (irc.efnet.org instead of the 2 servers we want to use), and CNQnet does not have any servers at all. To change all this, we type:<\/p>\n Just like changing the settings of an existing network, we use \/server add<\/strong> to overwrite the existing server entry with the new settings. After these commands, \/server list<\/strong> shows:<\/p>\n Let’s start by adding the channels to the configuration.<\/p>\n With \/channel list<\/strong>, we can see all currently configured channels:<\/p>\n The last step of configuration is to actually join the channels and open the queries. This seems to be the easiest way to do it:<\/p>\n We have to make sure to do this in the right order, so the channels and queries end up in the right windows. If, for whatever reason, we end up with the windows in a different order than we want, we can move windows around until the order is as we desire. For example, to move window 6 to position 2, we would do:<\/p>\n There is one last, and very important, thing that we have to do: we have to make sure that irssi stores our hard work, so we won’t have to do it again. We do this by the following two commands:<\/p>\n The command \/layout save<\/strong> tells irssi to store which channels and queries are in which windows when next we use \/save<\/strong>, and From now on, whenever we type irssi<\/em>\u00a0to start irssi, irssi will automatically connect to EFnet, QuakeNet and CNQnet, join the 4 channels we defined and open the 3 queries, all in the correct windows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, we shall learn how to make irssi connect to servers, join channels and open queries on startup. Let’s assume that we want irssi to automatically connect to the following networks, join these channels and open these queries: EFnet use … Continue reading Network configuration<\/h2>\n
\/network list<\/pre>\n
EFNet: max_kicks: 4, max_msgs: 3, max_whois: 1\r\nQuakeNet: max_kicks: 1, max_msgs: 3, max_whois: 30\r\n[other networks not shown here]<\/pre>\n
\u00a0\/network add -modes 4 -nick Justin^^ -user justin -realname \"The Justin\" CNQnet<\/pre>\n
\/network add -nick TheJustin -user justin -realname \"The Justin\" EFnet\r\n\/network add -nick Justin^^ -user justin -realname \"The Justin\" QuakeNet<\/pre>\n
EFNet: nick: TheJustin, username: justin, realname: The Justin,\r\n max_kicks: 4, max_msgs: 3, max_whois: 1\r\nQuakeNet: nick: Justin^^, username: justin, realname: The Justin,\r\n max_kicks: 1, max_msgs: 3, max_whois: 30\r\nCNQnet: nick: Justin^^, username: justin, realname: The Justin,\r\n max_modes: 4<\/pre>\n
Server configuration<\/h2>\n
\/server list<\/pre>\n
irc.quakenet.org \u00a0 \u00a0 6667 \u00a0QuakeNet\r\nirc.efnet.org \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06667 \u00a0EFNet\r\n[other networks not shown here]<\/pre>\n
\/server add -network QuakeNet -auto irc.quakenet.org\r\n\/server remove irc.efnet.org\r\n\/server add -network EFnet -auto efnet.xs4all.nl\r\n\/server add -network EFnet irc.underworld.no\r\n\/server add -network CNQnet -auto irc.carnique.nl<\/pre>\n
irc.quakenet.org 6667 QuakeNet autoconnect\r\nefnet.xs4all.nl 6667 EFNet autoconnect\r\nirc.underworld.no 6667 EFNet\r\nirc.carnique.nl 6667 CNQnet autoconnect<\/pre>\n
Channel configuration<\/h2>\n
\/channel add -auto #irssitest EFnet\r\n\/channel add -auto #quartix EFnet oodle\r\n\/channel add -auto #monogaming QuakeNet\r\n\/channel add -auto #carnique CNQnet<\/pre>\n
Channel Network Password Settings\r\n#irssitest EFnet autojoin\r\n#quartix EFnet oodle autojoin\r\n#monogaming QuakeNet autojoin\r\n#carnique CNQnet autojoin<\/pre>\n
\/join -efnet #irssitest\r\n\/join -quakenet #monogaming\r\n\/join -efnet #quartix\r\n\/join -cnqnet #carnique\r\n\/query -efnet Chang_X\r\n\/query -quakenet Smyter1\r\n\/query -cnqnet Garion<\/pre>\n
\/win 6\r\n\/win move 2<\/pre>\n
\/layout save\r\n\/save<\/pre>\n
\n\/save<\/strong> stores the configuration (which networks and servers we defined, and which channels and queries were open in which windows).<\/p>\n