man(1) Profanity XMPP client man(1)
NAME
Profanity - a simple console based XMPP chat client.
SYNOPSIS
profanity [-vh] [-l level] [-a account]
DESCRIPTION
Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. Its emphasis is on having a simple and configurable
command driven UI, see the homepage at:
<
https://profanity-im.github.io>
OPTIONS
-v, --version
Show version and build information.
-h, --help
Show help on command line arguments.
-a, --account ACCOUNT
Auto connect to an account on startup, ACCOUNT must be an existing account.
-c, --config
Use an alternative config file.
-l, --log LEVEL
Set the logging level, LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR.
-f, --logfile
Specify a different logfile
-t, --theme THEME
Specify which theme to use. THEME must be one of the themes installed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/themes
KEYBINDINGS
ALT+1..Alt-0 Choose window 1..0.
ALT+LEFT
Choose previous chat window.
ALT+RIGHT
Choose next chat window.
PAGEUP Page the active window up.
PAGEDOWN
Page the active window down.
ALT+PAGEUP
Page the occupants or roster panel up.
ALT+PAGEDOWN
Page the occupants or roster panel down.
ALT+a Jump to the next unread window.
ALT+v Mark current window for later reading with an attention flag.
ALT+m Switch between windows marked with the attention flag.
USING PROFANITY
The user guide can be found at <
https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html>.
SEE ALSO
Profanity itself has a lot of built-in help. Check the /help command for more information. Type "/help help" for infor‐
mation on how to use help itself. Profanity ships with one man page for each built-in command. For /account there is man
profanity-account.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration for Profanity is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on commands for configuring Profan‐
ity can be found at <
https://profanity-im.github.io/reference.html>.
BUGS
Bugs can either be reported by raising an issue at the Github issue tracker:
<
https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues>
or to the mailing list at:
<
https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity>
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2012 - 2019 James Booth <
[email protected]>. Copyright (C) 2019 - 2020 Michael Vetter
<
[email protected]>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free
software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
AUTHORS/CREDITS
Profanity was created by James Booth <
[email protected]> with many contributions from others, see the full list at:
<
https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/graphs/contributors>
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