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Finch

A Pimpin’ Penguin console frontend to libpurple. Instant Messaging client.

Finch is the text UI equivalent of Pidgin.

Keys

Alt + a

Bring up a list of available actions.

Alt + n

Go to the next window.

Alt + p

Go to the previous window.

Alt + w

Show the list of windows. You can select and jump to any window from the list.

Alt + c

Close the current window.

Alt + q

Quit.

Alt + m

Start moving a window.

Alt + r

Start resizing a window.

Alt + D

Dump the contents of the screen in HTML format.

Alt + .

Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the right.

Alt + ,

Move the position of the current window in the window list one place to the left.

Alt + l

Refresh the windows. This is useful after resizing the terminal window.

Alt + 1 2 ... 0

Jump to the 1st, 2nd ... 10th window.

Alt + Tab

Jump to the next URGENT (highlighted) window.

Alt + Shift + Tab

Jump to the previous URGENT (highlighted) window.

Ctrl + o

Bring up the menu (if there is one) for a window.

Alt + /

Show a list of available key-bindings for the current widget in focus.

Alt + >

Switch to the next workspace

Alt + <

Switch to the previous workspace

Alt + t

Tag (or untag) the current window

Alt + T

Attached all the tagged windows to the current workspace

Alt + s

Show the workspace list

F9

Create a new workspace and switch to it

Extra commands

accounts

for the accounts window.

buddylist

for the buddylist.

debugwin

for the debug window.

plugins

for the plugins window.

prefs

for the preferences window.

status

for the status window.

Ports

To connect to gtalk needs port 5222 open.


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