1 Q: Why doesn't irssi display colors even when ircii etc. displays them?
2 A: Irssi uses curses, ircii and others don't (no, not even if ldd says they
3 use it). Curses decides if terminal supports colors based on the TERM
4 variable, so changing it should help. Some values to try when running
5 in xterm are: xterm, xterm-color and color_xterm.
7 Q: Why does irssi crash when pressing Ctrl-4?
8 A: Most unices are usually configured to send SIGQUIT to active process when
9 Ctrl-\ is pressed. Some terminals also treat Ctrl-4 and Ctrl-\ equally, so
10 Irssi will die to SIGQUIT. Two ways to fix this: change it to something
11 else with stty (stty quit undef) or in irssi /SET ignore_signals quit
13 Q: Where's the GUI version?
14 A: Read http://irssi.org/?page=about
16 Q: How do I easily write text to channel that starts with '/' character?
19 Q: I connected to some server which isn't responding but now irssi tries
20 to connect back to it all the time! How can I stop it?
21 A: Two ways. The "good way" to do it is with /DISCONNECT. Check the server
22 tags first with /SERVER without giving it any parameters, reconnections
23 are those that have tag starting with "recon" text. So most probably you're
24 going to do /DISCONNECT recon-1. The other way is to remove all the
25 reconnections with /RMRECONNS, easier but may remove some connections
26 you actually wanted to reconnect (if you used multiple servers..).
28 Q: Why does irssi say "Irssi: Channel not fully synchronized yet, try again
29 after a while" when I try to use /BAN etc?
30 A: IRC server you use is coded badly, do something like this:
31 /IRCNET ADD -querychans 1 quakenet
32 /SERVER ADD -ircnet quakenet irc.quakenet.org
34 After that /CONNECT quakenet should work properly (NOTE: when you do this
35 the first time you'll have to /DISCONNECT and /CONNECT again, /SERVER
36 doesn't work correctly).