Preferences

Preferences concerning Linkinus in general, such as the menubar icon or log files.

Here you can change the default IRC Client for your Mac.

Here you can toggle the menubar icon and set it up as activity monitor for new messages.

Here you can set the scrollback Linkinus keeps per window as well as toggle logging and history across sessions.

These preferences allow you to define how Linkinus handles status changes when you go away from your Mac, come back or quit Linkinus in various ways.

Detaching is a core feature of Linkinus. It allows you to close the user interface and still maintain your IRC connections. As the Agent is tied to Growl you can still receive notifications, though, and quickly restart the user interface to catch up with your peers. Please be aware that Linkinus still requires an internet connection to work.
Quit confirmation can be toggled here as well.

Here you can set your part, quit, sleep and away messages as well as allow Linkinus to automatically set you away after a time span defined by you. Linkinus can also automatically set you as back when you come back to your Mac.

Alerts are a central way of getting your attention. Here you can set up Linkinus to handle these to your liking.

Linkinus is closely tied with Growl and hence allows you to be notified of a number of events. These are highlights, new private messages and new public messages. You can also set Linkinus to display these messages only when it is in the background.

Linkinus allows you to display alerts in console and the current channel. Here you can toggle the settings.

Another way to catch your attention is the usage of the dock icon. Here you can set on which occasions (new private message, new public message, new highlight) it should bounce and how often (once or repeatedly).

Groups are a set of predefined windows inside Linkinus. E.g. you selected three or four channels for combined view and want to save this as a group. Here you can do that and also access old groups as well as modify them.

Here you can change the way Linkinus handles transfers and direct chat sessions (DCC).

Toggle transfers, change the default save to folder, tell Linkinus whether to automatically accept file transfers and direct chat sessions. You can also toggle passive mode here.

Here you can change the port range and the block size Linkinus uses for transfers.

Styles are what make IRC in Linkinus so very much fun. Here you can choose them and modify a number of settings concerning them.

The style preview allows you to see changes you make to the selected style without having to apply it to the live connections. You can safely change the style and edit font sizes as well as preferences mentioned below.

Here you can toggle:

• Timestamps
• Emoticons
• Coloring of nicknames
• Media embedding
• Breaks when deselecting Linkinus
• Grouping of consecutive messages
• Privilege prefixing
• Spotlighting for messages

Here you can change everything to do with colors and interface transparency.

Toggle IRC color stripping and text formatting. When you disable IRC colors Linkinus will only display plain text.

Foreground and background transparency allow you to modify in what cases Linkinus will turn transparent.

Here you can change colors used by Linkinus in the input bar and the user list:

• Input field
  • Text color
  • Command color
• User List
  • Regular user
  • Voiced user
  • Half-operator
  • Operator
  • Special user
  • Channel admin
  • Channel owner
  • IRC/Server Operator

Sounds are a very useful way to get your attention. Linkinus allows you to assign (custom) sounds to a various number of events as well as toggle these events one by one. Also of interest is that you can mute sounds depending on the occasion and status of Linkinus. Sound volume control is also available here. The events that can trigger a sound alert are:

• New Private Message
• New Public Message
• User Joined Channel
• User Parted Channel
• User Quit IRC
• User Kicked Out Of Channel
• Invite Received
• IRC Error
• Notice Received
• Mode Changed
• New Highlight

The user list is an essential part of an IRC client. You need it to see who is online, who is available and to whom you can talk to when you need people in control. Here you can change various aspects concerning the user list.

The tooltip Linkinus provides appears when hovering over a nickname, it contains:

• Nickname
• Username
• Hostname
• Realname
• Privileges

Here you can tell Linkinus what the users on the list should be ordered by:

• By nickname
• By privileges (Note that IRC/Server Operator status is considered a privilege included in sorting)
• by availability

Here you can tell Linkinus what it should do when you double click a nickname in the user list:

• Open a query
• Get info about the user (/whois)

Linkinus can display various information along with the status bubble and the nickname:

• Username
• Hostname
• Privilege as prefix

Here you can define your own aliases and shortcuts for IRC commands.

Aliases are a way to generate new new commands. Here you can use variables offered by Linkinus ($1, $2, $3, $selectedchan, $nick) to make dynamic commands. Using ; you can even combine multiple commands into one alias.

Shortcuts can be used to shorten long commands so you have an easier time invoking them.

Here you can toggle highlights and add global highlights for Linkinus. Highlights can be formatted using PCRE-compatible regular expressions.

Here you can see a list of all currently installed AppleScripts. A list of all available Scripts can be found here.

Here you can see a list of all currently installed plug-ins. A list of all available Scripts can be found here.

The flood protection is Linkinus offer to make sure that you do not spam other people on IRC and on the other hand do not get spammed yourself.

The buffer size defines when Linkinus starts slowing down outgoing text. The larger the buffer the later Linkinus will slow down large messages you send.

Correlation time is the interval between sending packages that are larger than the selected buffer size. The shorter the time the higher the chances you get disconnected for flooding.

Linkinus regularly sends /who commands to update the user lists and the attached data. This can potentially slow down connections where you join huge channels. Here you can set the number of users required to prevent Linkinus from sending /who requests to such channels.

Here you can change various settings concerning keyboard shortcuts and handling of special key actions such as escape, tab and arrow keys.

Here you can enable escape to clear the current input, tell Linkinus to use a global input history as well as which key combination should be used to browse the input history.

Here you can toggle auto-completion with the tab key. You can also toggle nickname, channel and command inclusion at will. When a nickname is auto-completed as first word in the input field it will receive a completion suffix of your choice (default is ”:”). To validate the suggestion you can either select the spacebar or any key.

Here you can toggle following options:

• Remember highlights in “Highlights & Stars” window across sessions
• Trust all invalid SSL certificates
• Display Message of the Day (MotD) in console when connecting
• Display Hint Box in console upon successful connections
• “Go Up” and “Go Down” skips console
• Rejoin a channel after a kick
• Automatically join a channel when invited to
• Redirect incoming notices to the console
• Reply to CTCP requests
  • Redirect all CTCP requests to the console
• /away applies to all connections
• /nick applies to all connections