Create ~/.firc or firc.conf.~/.firc will be automatically found at start, else enter it on the command-
line: f-irc my-fi-config.conf
server=host:port
An IRC server to connect to.
auto_join=...
Channel to automatically join.
send_after_login=...
Command to send to the IRC server after connection setup. E.g. PRIVMSG #NickServ IDENTIFY
my_password
username=...password=...
Used for authentication against IRC server
nick=...name=...
Identification settings.
description=...
Will be shown instead of server name (if used).
part_message=...
Message to send to the channel when leaving a channel.
server_exit_message=...
Message to send to all channels when leaving a server.
allow_invite=true/false
Should f-irc automatically open a channel when it receives an INVITE message?
ignore_mouse=true/false
Wether to ignore mouse clicks(!). Default is true which makes f-irc ignore the mouse.
favorite=......
This defines a favorite channel. First parameter is the server hostname or description, the second
parameter the channel name (e.g. #linux.nl). Jump through your favorite channels using ^Q.
store_config_on_exit=true/false
Wether to update the configuration-file at exit. Useful when adding channels and/or servers or
changing nicks.
notice_in_serverchannel=true/false
Most (all?) "NOTICE" messages are not personal messages but are from e.g. chanserv and nickserv
and friends. If this parameter is set to true, no new channel-windows are created for them; they
are put in the server-channel window instead.
highlight=on/off
Wether lines with your nick name in them should be highlighted (green on black).
meta-colors=true/false
Show server-messages and personal messages in a different color than generic messages.
all-colors=true/false
Global color-switch.
nick-color=true/false
When enabled, each line spoken will be colored with the color depending on who said it.
use_nonbasic_colors=true/false
Use more than the 16 standard colors. Useful for "nick-color".
inverse_window_heading=true/false
Show window-heading in reverse (true) or with ASCII-art (false).
show_parts=true/false
Should f-irc show a message when someone leaves a channel?
show_mode_changes=true/false
Should f-irc show a message when there's a mode change?
show_nick_change=true/false
Should f-irc show a message when someone changes his/hers nick?
show_joins=true/false
Should f-irc show a message when someone joins a channel?
auto_rejoin=true/false
Allows you to automatically re-join a channel when you're kicked.
remember_channels=true/false
Store any channels you were in when f-irc terminates.
grep_filter=server,channel,file,reg-exp
If a line written in a server/channel with the specified regular expression, write that line to
"file". server and or channel can be omitted but the comma needs to stay. For the server, f-irc
looks at the "description"-field of a server.
ignore_file=...
Points to a file with nicks to ignore: #channel nick etc.
auto_private_channel=on/off
Automatically create a new channel window when using /MSG
dcc_path=...
Path where to store files received via DCC.
max_channel_record_lines=...
How many lines of text to store in the scroll-back buffer.
partial_highlight_match=yes/no
Draw the whole line in green or only the parts that match the search term.
word_cloud_n=...
How many items to put in the word-cloud window. Set to 0 to completely disable the word-cloud.
word_cloud_win_height=...
Height of the word-cloud window. This excludes the 2 rows for the border.
word_cloud_refresh=...
Interval in which to restart the word-cloud. Value is in seconds.
word_cloud_min_word_size=...
Minimum size (in characters) of the words evaluated. A sensible value is 4.
default_colorpair=...,...
Set the default color pair. Used for generic texts and borders. First is foreground, second is
background. Note that you can either use a color name ("red", "green", etc.) or a hexadecimal
color triplet with values 000...3e7 (that may sound strange but ncurses use the range 0...999)
with a '#' in front of it. E.g. #1230fe2fa,white
highlight_colorpair=...,...
Color pair used when your nick is mentioned.
meta_colorpair=...,...
Color pair used when server messages are shown (joins, parts, etc)
error_colorpair=...,...
Colors to use when there's an error to show
jumpy_navigation=true/false
^W/R/Z/X: jumpy navigation
temp_colorpair=...,...
Temporary color;
dictionary_file=...
Dictionary file to use for tab completion, see below.
log_dir=
Path where to store chats logging.
mark_personal_messages=yes/no
If someone send you a message in a personal channel ("query"), should f-irc then highlight that
channel as if a personal message was sent (default is no).
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