I am a big IRC user and I always have been. One of the things I always loved about Linux is the irc client irssi.
If you have been reading some of our other articles you know that Alex and I got some new laptops and we are using windows 7. I tried irssi for windows and it pretty much sucked so I decided to check out xchat. X-chat is a pretty cool irc client. I was not used to using a GUI style client but I must say its pretty nice.After using it awhile I started thinking the default interface shown here was a little boring: I decided to check out if any themes were available and there were a few.
To ensure Hamlet s death, Laertes and Claudius plot to slay Hamlet with an un blunted, poisoned sword and encourage him to drink poisoned wine. Hamlet is supposed to drink from the wine after scoring points on Laertes, but refuses the drink until after the duel. These are some unofficial custom themes for HexChat. For information on how to install these themes, refer to the documentation. Aubergine Black Blues.
You can go and check out the selection. I decided on the original black theme and went ahead and downloaded the zip file: Once you open the archive you will see two files. Prevents.conf and colors.conf. These files need to move to the local application data folder in your users home directory. This was the one small hitch I had since in the past the file has always been called “Application Data” but apparently they changed the name of the file too “AppData”. So all you have to do is copy the two files prevents.conf and colors.conf to the xchat2 folder which is inside the AppData folder. After that you just restart X-chat and you have a much nicer black theme.
If you want your themes here, make a pull request and add your theme to the end of the list. Screenshots in PNG or GIF formats only.
No jpegs please, they just look worse and take a lot more space. Usage Copy the.theme file to /.irssi/ directory, change the theme with /SET theme themename Why doesn't it look like the screenshot? Screenshots are user-contributed. They contain a lot of information which is not part of the theme file:.
Background colour and image. font face and base colour. Additional scripts such as: nicklist, window list, nick colouring script. In most cases, the authors only sent in the theme files and none of those additional material. Why is my irssi in a foreign language? Several themes have translated all irssi messages into the author's language. You can either edit those themes yourself or avoid them:-).