NAME¶
Ayttm - Universal Instant Messaging client
SYNOPSIS¶
ayttm [
options]...
DESCRIPTION¶
Ayttm is an instant messaging (aka chat) client that provides all-in-one chat
functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple
program. Ayttm "Contacts" allow you to refer to several accounts of
the same person from a single contact name, making it one of the cleanest and
simplest clients to use.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- Display help and exit
- -v, --version
- Output version information and exit
- -g, --geometry
- Set position of main window
- -d, --config-dir
- Specify configuration directory
- -D, --disable-server
- Disable console message server
- -c, --contact
- Specify contact to send a message to via console server
- -m, --message
- Specify the message to send via console server (Note: -c and -m must be
used together)
DESCRIPTION¶
Ayttm is a unified multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows
you to stay in touch with your contacts across multiple protocols through one
conventient interface.
Currently
Ayttm supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo!. A
detailed list of features is available at:
http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/features.shtml
FILES¶
$(HOME)/.ayttm/accounts - information about your accounts
$(HOME)/.ayttm/contacts - contact/buddy list
$(HOME)/.ayttm/logs/ - conversation logs
$(HOME)/.ayttm/prefs - preferences
FEEDBACK¶
For submitting bug reports, patches, feature requests and support requests,
please use the Sourceforge.net tracker for
Ayttm at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=77614
Before sending a bug report, please verify that you have the latest version of
Ayttm. Many bugs (major and minor) are fixed at each release, and if
yours is out of date, the problem may already have been solved.
SEE ALSO¶
Ayttm Home Page:
http://ayttm.sourceforge.net
Ayttm User Manual:
http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/ayttm-manual
LICENCE¶
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin
St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
AUTHORS¶
The authors of
Ayttm are:
Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Lead Developer
Andy S. Maloney <a_s_maloney@yahoo.com> Code Monkey
Philip S. Tellis <philip.tellis@iname.com> Yahoo!
Edward L. Haletky <elh@astroarch.com> Windows Port
Tahir Hashmi <code_martial@softhome.net> Manual, Doc.
Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
This manpage was adapted from one written by Laurel Fan
<lf25@andrew.cmu.edu> for
EveryBuddy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶
Ayttm is an heir of
EveryBuddy (
http://www.everybuddy.com).
We would like to thank the EveryBuddy development team for their contribution.
Special thanks to Mark Spencer, initial creator of GAIM, for all of the
tremendous support he has given.