NAME¶

circle-fe-gtk - GTK 2 frontend for the Circle IRC client

SYNOPSIS¶

circle-fe-gtk url

DESCRIPTION¶

Circle is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local client and the common screen+irssi recipe:

• Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing disconnections from local UI.
• Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.

Circle uses Tangence for its underlying communications layer.

circle-fe-gtk is a GTK 2 user interface for Circle. It needs circle-be to be installed on the same or a different machine in order to be useful.

The circle-fe-gtk command accepts a single argument, a URL to the Circle backend socket.

The URL should be one of the following:

• tcp://host:port

  Connect to host:port over TCP.

• exec:///path?arguments

  Execute command path with arguments.

• unix:///path

  Connect to a UNIX socket path.

• sshexec://host/path

  Execute command path with arguments on a remote host over SSH.

• sshunix://host/path

  Connect to a UNIX socket path on a remote host over SSH.

ENVIRONMENT¶

DISPLAY

X11 display to connect to.

SEE ALSO¶

circle-be(1), Circle(3pm)

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

The author of Circle is Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>