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Hey, I've been dealing with IM, AIM ect. for a while now, and what to get geeky with it. I want a text-based AIM client for linux. I've used Gaim, Kopete, and have settled with Gaim for linux, and trillian3 for windows. I like trillian, but then again windows is a fully gui os. For my lintop, I would love some text based AIM action. Does anyone know of such a program? -Bill
I use it, and it is amazing. Works so well with screen, and you can ssh in from any other computer (win, mac or lin) and resume the screen from there. I absolutely recommend it. Everyone who I've turned onto it agrees that they can't go back to graphical based IMs anymore.
Here's couple of them you'll may be interested in:
Naim may be what you want, Bitlbee is interesting - it's a client for IM networks and server for IRC, so you can use irc-client like irssi to communicate in im-networks through it. Works well if you're mainly irc person who needs messangers ocassionally. Centericq works quite well, I've used to use this.
BTW, which IM-client has best IRC support? Hard to find features are multiple servers, autojoining to channels on startup and DCC send/receive. I'm not usually IRCing, but it's handy time to time. I'd recommend bitlbee for myself, but its bit too complicated in IM use IMO.
Well, I'd have to say GAIM or Naim for that one - bsflite is ok, but gaim is the best (althought its a gui). After messing with cli IM, I've figured out that while possible and kinda good; gui IMing just works better. Still, naim works pretty well.
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