Bridge IM accounts to your IRC client with bitlbee

Posted by bob on Jun 13, 2014 1:39 AM EDT
Fedora Magazine; By Ryan Lerch
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Many Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients in Fedora (xchat, hexchat, irssi) only support the IRC protocol, however many users also converse in other Instant Messaging (IM) protocols like Google Talk. One option to have all your IMs and Chats in one application is to switch to a client that supports both IRC and IM, such as pidgin or empathy. However, there is another option that does not require you to switch IRC clients — bitlbee.

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