X-Chat with parameters?
Ziggy SpaceRat
Can anybody tell me if X-Chat accepts any paramaters?
I'm looking for a paramater like
-c|--config-dir=<Path>
to tell X-Chat not to use the default location for its configuration
files.
It would be helpful for having different configurations under the same
username, e.g. for testing purposes or to enable my girlfriend to use
X-Chat on my computer without having to use "Execute as" or
"Fast-user-switching", resp. "su girlfriend".
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Peter Zelezny
Ziggy SpaceRat <Ziggy.S...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Group!
>
> Can anybody tell me if X-Chat accepts any paramaters?
Yes it does.
$ xchat -h
xchat 2.0.6
Usage: xchat [OPTIONS]... [URL]
Options:
-d, --cfgdir DIRECTORY use a different config dir
-a, --no-auto don't auto connect
-n, --no-plugins don't auto load any plugins
-v, --version show version information
URL:
irc://server:port/channel
Ziggy SpaceRat
am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 um 10:23 schrieben Sie:
>> Can anybody tell me if X-Chat accepts any paramaters?
> Yes it does.
> $ xchat -h
Was trying xchat --help
I love the consistency of *ix programs *g*
BTW: Does X-Chat support system-wide configs?
That means: Can I put a modified pevents.conf somewhere and X-Chat
will use it if no pevents.conf already exists in the user's
~/.xchat2 directory, or do I need to modify the sources for this?
pevents.conf is just an example, it should work for any config-file,
even partial ones.
So one could, for example, place a partial xchat.conf in
C:\Documents and settings\All Users\Application data\X-Chat 2
resp.
/etc/.xchat2
which contains the settings for DCC ports and stuff, so that users
don't need to care about figuring out which DCC ports work through the
system's firewall.
My idea would be to allow the config-files in the system-wide
config-dir to be named with .override at the end optionally, to
enforce certain options.
E.g. a cautious admin could enforce that the directory for incoming
DCCs is NUL: resp. /dev/null by placing an
xchat.conf.override
with this content
dcc_dir = /dev/null
in the system-wide config dir and no user could change this setting in
his xchat later, while the options in
xchat.conf within the system-wide config-dir
tab_chans = 1
tab_dialogs = 1
tab_dnd = 1
tab_new_to_front = 0
tab_notices = 0
tab_position = 1
tab_server = 0
tab_trunc = 20
tab_utils = 1
would just be suggestions and can be changed by the users later.
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Ziggy SpaceRat