5. X Window IRC Clients

5.1. Zircon

Maintainer: Lindsay F. Marshall (<Lindsay.Marshall@ncl.ac.uk>)

IRC Channel: None?

Written in Tcl/Tk, uses the native network communications of Tcl.

You can get the latest version of Zircon from ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/. Homepage at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/.

Maintainer: Robert Borrell (<borrell@pobox.com>)

IRC Channel: None?

Using the Qt toolkit, xIrc is less featured than KVIrc. As an advantage, it's faster.

Maintainer: Szymon Stefanek (<stefanek@tin.it>)

IRC Channel: #kvirc on OPN

Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.

You can get the latest version of KVIrc from http://www.kvirc.net/download.html. Homepage at http://www.kvirc.net/.

Maintainer: Peter Zelezny (<zed@linux.com>)

IRC Channel: #linux on ChatJunkies

Using the GTK+ toolkit and additionaly GNOME, supports Perl and Python scripting.

You can get the latest version of X-Chat from http://xchat.org/download.html. Homepage at http://xchat.org/.