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.

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

IRC Channel: #KVIrc on freenode

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/?id=download. Homepage at http://www.kvirc.net/.

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

IRC Channel: #Linux on ChatJunkies

Using GTK+ and optionally 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/.

Maintainer: Patrick Earl (<quirc @ patearl.net>)

IRC Channel: #QuIRC on DALnet

Using Tk, supports Tcl for scripting.

You can get the latest version of QuIRC from his Homepage at http://quirc.org/.