Mark Galassi writes:
Yeah, the story there is that I found I was able to rename the original (annoyingly configured) room to nmglug-donotuse, so now nmglug is the right one, and I think you're in.
Got it! But a little while after we chatted a little this morning in nmglug, I got kicked out of the room: "You have been kicked from #!tgptWbstjQjsXIAZZT:mat by root".
In your description of hexchat+bitlbee setup I was not able to follow it - I have not used hexchat, so the jargon escaped me. What is the ^bitlbee tab? How do you get it? If I start hexchat after your instructions I don't see anything that looks like a tab.
Bitlbee is a separate piece of software which gateways lots of different protocols to IRC, so you can view non-IRC things in an IRC reader. Read about it at https://www.bitlbee.org/ It sets up an IRC "server" on localhost port 6667. I've been using it for Twitter, so I can see my twitter timeline in a tab in hexchat. In hexchat, every IRC channel has its own tab. So for example if I join #nmglug on freenet I get a new tab; if I join ##linux that's another tab. After installing bitlbee, you can set up a bitlbee "server" in hexchat, on localhost/6667, and connect to it, which opens a server tab for bitlbee control messages, plus a tab for any bitlbee accounts I've configured. So I cam have a tab for twitter, a tab for nmglug on Matrix, a tab for the Raspberry Pi Club on Discord, etc. Each of those tabs corresponds to an account I've set up in Bitlbee. To get bitlbee set up in the first place, there's a user guide and a wiki at https://www.bitlbee.org/ I also wrote a blog article years ago about how I got it set up with Twitter: https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/bitlbee.html but most of that is Twitter-specific and isn't needed for Matrix. That page I pointed to, https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoMatrix assumes you've already installed bitlbee and bitlbee-libpurple, defined a bitlbee server in your IRC client and connected to it, which opens up a bitlbee server tab if you're using hexchat, and that's where you type those "account" commands. ...Akkana