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man(1) Profanity XMPP client man(1)

NAME

Profanity - a simple console based XMPP chat client.

SYNOPSIS

profanity [-vh] [-l level] [-a account]

DESCRIPTION

Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. Its emphasis is on having a simple and configurable command driven UI, see the homepage at:

<https://profanity-im.github.io>

OPTIONS

Show version and build information.
Show help on command line arguments.
Auto connect to an account on startup, ACCOUNT must be an existing account.
Use an alternative config file.
Set the logging level, LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR.
Specify a different logfile
Specify which theme to use. THEME must be one of the themes installed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/themes

USING PROFANITY

The user guide can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html>.

SEE ALSO

Profanity itself has a lot of built-in help. Check the /help command for more information. Type "/help help" for information on how to use help itself. Profanity ships with one man page for each built-in command. For /account there is man profanity-account.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration for Profanity is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on commands for configuring Profanity can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/reference.html>.

BUGS

Bugs can either be reported by raising an issue at the Github issue tracker:

<https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues>

or to the mailing list at:

<https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2019 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>. Copyright (C) 2019 - 2020 Michael Vetter <jubalh@iodoru.com>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHORS/CREDITS

Profanity was created by James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com> with many contributions from others, see the full list at: <https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/graphs/contributors>

2021-01-09 0.10.0