Comments on: IRC Clients for Ubuntu

By: BLeuwinter

BLeuwinter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:41:17 +0000

I’ve tried Konversation, KVirc, KSirc, XChat, LostIRC, & many more but none that support resuming file transfer. Though Xchat has that function but it doens’t seem to work. Anyone knows which code do i need to use or anything else in order to make me use only IRC available on Linux. I do not want to depend on mirc.

By: isama

isama — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:43 +0000

@riczdes: it would be a huge waste of resourses to have a whole os running for 1 application

By: vreemt

vreemt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:51:27 +0000

thanks for the list of clients (:
I’m running ubuntu from a live cd, still getting used to it, it has Gaim which I’ve tried using before but when compared to mirc I agree – it is definately uncomfortable to use

By: riczdes

riczdes — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:18:48 +0000

Why dont you guys go for Sun virtualbox and load an xp to you current linux box, and use mirc. With this you can mapp a drive pointed to you home folder in ubunto from within the virtual win xp machine.

Platform Integration,:)

I love mirc but im new to linux so im gonna try xchat and check it out. I have used pidgin to chat and irc and its ok , no mirc = base experience but it works.

By: minhaaj

minhaaj — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:50:19 +0000

I have found mirc to be best with crossover but i would try xchat. mirc through wine or other emulation is pretty crappy. even ms fonts do the magic. i have tried kopete, and other stuff but i’d stick to mirc or xchat. i am on gnome hardy btw.

By: dokumori

dokumori — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:57:55 +0000

Thanks for the review. very useful! I went for konversation and am quite happy with it.

By: Jagadeesh

Jagadeesh — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:31:25 +0000

I am xchat for years. I tried many other but I am very happy with xchat

By: Luke Ratcliffe

Luke Ratcliffe — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:23:14 +0000

“When you select some text in a chat window and right click it does not you show you an option to copy the selected text.”
Er… unless xchat blocks standard behaviour, selecting the text copies it. You paste with your middle mouse button.

And I happen to love KVirc. I use it on Windows, OSX and Kubuntu and it is fantastic.

By: Noumaan

Noumaan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:54:53 +0000

da, IRSSI is a terminal based client and most ex-windows users including myself find it difficult to use applications in Terminal.

vitulor, even the Kopete is not a bad IRC client if we are talking about KDE/Kubuntu.

enigma, my problem is that I don’t like using wine. Using Wine is not a good option as you mentioned that you can not get DCC working. IRC is a basic need and there should be either a *nix version of mIRC or we should have something better than mIRC.

By: enigma1

enigma1 — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:07:42 +0000

I also am of the opinion that mirc is the best chat client. Happily, it runs just fine on ubuntu with ‘wine’. My only problems is that I can’t figure out how to get dcc working when running in ‘wine’.