Manual

Simple explanation of jmIrc options


  • Configuration

    • Nick: This is tried automatically if nick is in use, can be left empty

    • Alternative nick: This is tried automatically if nick is in use, can be left empty

    • IRC server: Hostname of the server you will connect to

    • IRC server port: TCP port of the used IRC server, usually 6667 is a safe bet

    • Channels: Channels you want to join to automatically after connecting, separated with comma (',')

    • Real name: Your real name shown to other IRC users who ask for it

  • Advanced

    • Use status header: You can choose if you want to show the status header on top of screen by default or not

    • Use timestamp: You can choose if you want to show the timestamp on all windows by default or not

    • Use socket poll: Set this only if it doesn't work otherwise, ie. on Motorola V525, Nokia 6800, 6810, 7200 or Samsung C100

    • Use mIRC colours: Set this if you want to show mIRC colours and other text features on channels

    • Print unhandled input: Print unhandled server input to status window for debugging reasons

    • Automatically detect UTF-8: Validate all input first as UTF-8 and use encoding just as a fallback. With this option a channel can have two character sets that work correctly.

    • Always output UTF-8: With this option you always output UTF-8 regardless of chosen encoding, useful with automatic detect

    • Character encoding: ISO-8859-1 is the usual encoding used, but you can also choose from other codepages

    • Backbuffer lines: Sets the maximum lines in backbuffer per window, too large value can make the phone run out of memory

    • Highlight string: The string you want to use for highlighting, usually this is your own nick

    • Server password: This is for IRC servers that need a password, usually useful with IRC bouncers

  • HTTP Config:

    • Use HTTP proxy server: Check this option to enable HTTP proxy support if your phone needs one.

    • Proxy server: Hostname of the proxy server you want to use

    • Proxy port: TCP port of the used proxy server, default is 8080 but may be different

    • Proxy password: Password for the proxy server, you should know this yourself

    • HTTP poll time (sec): This is the time how often HTTP proxy is polled, if set to 0 then only manual polling is used but this is not recommended

  • Keyboard options after connecting:

    • 2 and 8 scroll the backbuffer up or down one row

    • 4 and 6 change the window left or right

    • 1 and 7 scroll the backbuffer to home or end

    • 3 and 9 scroll the backbuffer up or down one page

    • * is a shortcut to message writing

    • 0 is a shortcut to favourite messages menu

    • # enables or disables the status line on-the-fly

    • Pressing 5 and # consecutively within one second enables or disables the keylock

  • Other commands (parameters marked with [] are optional):

    • /ctcp channel/nick message: send ctcp message to channel or person

    • /kick [channel] nick [message]: kick person from channel with message (only if you're opped)

    • /msg channel/nick message: send message to channel or person

    • /me action: display action in current channel/private

    • /part [channel] message: part from channel with message

    • /quit message: quit from IRC with message

    • /raw command: send raw command to the server

    • /topic new topic: change topic on channel (only if you're opped)

    • /whois nick: request whois information of some person