BitchX

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BitchX IRC Client

BitchX is a free IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program on its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C, and is a console application. A graphical interface is also available, which uses the GTK+ toolkit. It works on most Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It is originally based on ircII-EPIC and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. It supports IPv6[1], multiple servers and SSL, but not UTF-8. BitchX (often called just "BX" by fans) is well known for its unique default of sending random messages on a /quit.

BitchX is the current project. While there is no current release to the public on the new code base, the project is leaning towards merging back to the current base version of Epic.

• Connecting to a server

[todsah@sharky]~$ bitchx nickname irc.freenode.net

• Joining the channel

/j #ChannelName

• Chatting to a user (private)

[#channel1] /msg joe Hey joe, I think John is such a loser, don't you?

• Changing windows

Now that you've created a new window, you'd like to change to that window , so that you may use it. For this there are also a number of ways to do it. There are many ways of doing many thing in BitchX, aren't there?).

* /window next (/window prev)
* Pressing Ctrl-w n
* Pressing Alt-# (Where # is the corrisponding window number, i.e alt-1, alt-2, etc)

Some methods may not work in your window manager. If you've got difficulties using alt-# and your using xterm, I suggest trying aterm (which also supports transparent backgrounds, and you ain't l337 until you've got transparant backgrounds)

• Multiple servers

It may sometimes be desirable to chat on different IRC networks (or differenent IRC servers, it's all the same). In this case, BitchX allows you to connect to a different IRC server in the new window. This won't work with the normal /server command, but you'll have to tell bitchx to only connect to the other server in the current window. You can do it like this:

[0] /window server irc.freenode.net

• Full List of BitchX Commands

BitchX Commands