User Guide

Contents

• Joining a chat room
• Creating a chat room
• Changing your nickname
• Inviting contacts to a room
• Sending messages
• Sending a private message
• Leaving a room
• Bookmarking rooms

Joining a chat room

Use the /join command to join a chat room supplying the name of the room:

/join room@conference.server.com

Your nickname will be the account nick setting which by default is set to the 'localpart' of your Jabber ID. For example if you are logged in as itsme@server.com you will join the room with the nickname itsme.

To specify a nickname different to your account setting when joining the room, use the nick option:

/join room@conference.server.com nick MrChatty

If you omit the domain part of the chat room, the account setting muc will be used which by default is set to conference.<domain>. For example, if you are logged in as kai@mycompany.org, using the following command:

/join development

is the same as:

/join development@conference.mycompany.org

To join a room which requires a password, use the password option:

/join privatedev@conference.someserver.im password p455w0rd

The account settings for default nickname and conference service may be changed for any account using the /account command.

Creating a chat room

If a room is joined which did not previously exist, and the server allows it, the room will be created. More information on creating and configuring chat rooms can be found at Chat Room Configuration and Administration.

If you are using Google Talk, creating a new room is slightly different. See the FAQ.

Changing your nickname

Use the /nick command whilst in a chat room to change your nickname, for example to change your nickname to bob:

/nick bob

Inviting contacts to a room

To invite one of your contacts to the current chat room, use the /invite command with an optional reason for the invite:

/invite Bruce

or with a reason:

/invite Bruce Come and join the chat

As with other commands, the name must be double quoted if it contains spaces:

/invite "Bruce Dickenson" Join us!

Sending messages

To send a message to the room, enter the message and press enter.

To direct a message to a particular recipient in the room, type the start of the recipients nickname and use <tab> to autocomplete the nickname. The nickname will be followed by ": ", after which you may type your message.

For example, assuming a participant exists in the room named eddie, type:

ed<tab>this message is just for you

Which will result in the following:

eddie: this message is just for you

Autocompletion using <tab> will also complete participants names in the middle of message text, without the ": ".

Sending a private message

To start a private chat session with a room participant use the /msg command supplying the participants nickname:

/msg "Some User" Hello there!

/msg mike hello there!

Leaving a room

To leave a chat room, use the /leave command, the /close command has the same effect.

Bookmarking rooms

To bookmark chat rooms, including the ability to autojoin the rooms when signing in, see the /bookmark command. The simplest way to bookmark a room (and enable autojoin) is to use the /bookmark command with no arguments in the room you wish to bookmark.