[SOLVED] How to tactually talk on an IRC channel?

[tarazed]

I am in the embarrassing position of not being able to join the conversation at the QA meetings which normally take place on a Thursday. I have absolutely no experience of IRC and have chosen to use irssi. The configuration is set up to connect to the server and join the mageia_qa channel. That side works fine, automatic login and identification; I can see who is at the meeting, including my own nickname, and read whatever is being said but cannot talk to anybody. I imagine the /msg command would work but I gather that that is used to address one person. The config file contains

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autojoin = "yes"

but when I type in plain text, without a preceding slash it is returned as an invalid command. Can anybody here give advice on this very basic point? All the online help assumes that you know how IRC works.

[Latte]

Maybe you should try a graphic IRC client. There are several which seems to be more self-explaining than irssi (I just checked it and could not use it, although I know how to use IRC - a least the basics). If you are using KDE I would recommend Konversion. Another well-known IRC is xchat, but I don't know it well. If you are using Gnome there should be an "build-in" IRC client as well, but this someone else needs to tell you...

In the IRC client you should be able to set up a connection to the freenode server (chat.freenode.net) - at Konversion just press F2 and select 'new'. in the lower part you can enter the mageia-qa channel so that you will connect automatically each time Konversation starts. Otherwise you can simply join the channel by typing '/join #mageia-qa'. But as I said in the most graphical IRC clients there should be also some menus to join channels...

here is a list of different IRC clients: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090 ... 7/IRC.html

Please try it out...

[tarazed]

Thanks for the info. Using Mate (GNOME 2). I am a bit short of time and having gone to the trouble of setting up the configuration would like to persevere with irssi. I am convinced that I have missed something simple being the dumbass that I am. I am beginning to suspect that I have to use /join or whatever the command is even though I am listed as being already present. Will at least check the documentation you have pointed to. Thanks.

[tarazed]

At last. autojoin does not seem to have any effect. /join #channelname IS the essential command.
**@!# pardon my French.