Thank you much. Al -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:28 AM To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: irc question Hi Al, On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:38:38 -0500 Al Sten-Clanton <albert.e.sten_clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings! > > I need an irc client recommendation. (Yes, I'm way behind the times > on > this.) I know of pidgin and xchat. Can anybody tell me which, if > either, is easier to use with Speakup or Orca? Is there something > else that is better than either? (This is for use in my internship, > not that I finally decided to jump in.) > In addition to what people here wrote, I have another note: XChat is not maintained anymore and there's now a more active fork called HexChat: http://hexchat.github.io/ , so I would recommend using it over XChat. Note that it broke some backward compatibility with the location of the configuration files and other stuff like that. See the first question here: http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Public Domain Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/ Learn Perl from "Learning Perl in 24 Minutes Unleashed, in a Nutshell for Dummies." - based on Shlomi Fish and f00li5h on #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list