HexChat auto login
Posted: 2016-10-19 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: freenode, HexChat, identify, irc, SlackBuilds, slackware, XChat Leave a commentI have always preferred a graphical IRC client, probably because I got familiar with IRC quite late. I used to make XChat auto login to irc.freenode.net
with my username, but since I did this once per Slackware release, I never really remembered how I set it up.
With Slackware 14.2, XChat got substituted by HexChat, which has a very similar look and feel. For several months I would login manually every time, typing the identification command… Anyway, I decided to make things a bot more convenient and this time write it down.
From the Network List, select freenode
and click Edit. Set the Login method to Custom... (connect commands)
. Then, go to Connect commands tab and Add the identification command:
/msg NickServ identify %p
where %p
will parse the password entered in the Password field:
Of course, among the channels I specify in the Autojoin channels tab are ##slackware
and #slackbuilds
.
Easy…