A lot of people I know like running the Irssi IRC client in a terminal, whether in a terminal multiplexer like tmux or GNU Screen. Me too!
I also love running the latest GNOME releases. So when GNOME 3.12 was released and available for Fedora 20, I followed these simple instructions, courtesy of Fedora Magazine and Ryan Lerch, to install it on my system.
I discovered a new feature in the GNOME Terminal is that keys Alt+1 through Alt+0 are mapped to allow you to quickly navigate to the first ten tabs in Terminal. This is super-useful, but because those keys also happen to map to the shortcuts in Irssi for switching to your first ten IRC windows, I couldn’t use them in Irssi. Since I use that function a lot more often, here’s how I fixed it:
- Open a GNOME Terminal, and from the quick menu in GNOME Shell’s top bar, choose Preferences.
- Under the Shortcuts tab, locate the Tabs list.
- For each shortcut from “Switch to Tab 1” to “Switch to Tab 10,” click the shortcut to select it. Then click the entry under Shortcut Key. Hit the Backspace key to remove the existing shortcut.
Now you can use your Alt key combinations as before in Irssi. Have fun!
If you’re a heavy terminal+irssi user, you might appreciate reading: //ttboj.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/desktop-notifications-for-irssi-in-screen-through-ssh-in-gnome-terminal/
HTH,
James
I have my own plugin that I worked on with some other folks here: //code.google.com/p/irssi-libnotify/
Cool! I might have even looked at this once before, but a quick look shows that the remote machine would need to SSH to the local one. This is a deal breaker for me, because the laptop moves around a lot (and behind weird firewalls), and definitely doesn’t run SSHD.
Thanks for the link though!