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-1. PROJECT RELATED QUESTIONS
-
-1.1 What is KVIrc ? What the "KVIrc" name stands for ?
-1.2 Why KVIrc is not totally integrated in KDE ?
-
-
-2. COMPILATION
-
-2.1 I can't compile kvirc from cvs, what's wrong?
-2.2 Internal Compiler Errors ?
-2.3 On Mandrake 10.0 (or other) KVIrc fails to start
- saying that it can't find libkvisetup.so.
-2.4 I got 'amarokInterface.cpp:29:31: amarokInterface.moc: No such file or directory'. Whats going wrong?
-2.5 Configure complains about a missing libdl.so but I seem to have it
-
-
-3. INSTALLATION
-
-3.1 There is a problem during package installation/creation
- file /usr/share/services/irc.protocol from install
- kvirc-version.package conflicts with file from package xxx
-
-
-4. IRC
-
-4.1 How do i join a channel ?
-4.2 How do i autojoin channels ?
-4.3 How do I enable automatic NickServ identification ?
-4.4 I can't see my national characters, what's wrong ?
-4.5 I can't connect to an IPV6 server, what's wrong ?
-4.6 /me doesn't support the '$' character, what's wrong ?
-4.7 /me doesn't support the '"' (double quote) character, what's wrong ?
-4.8 /me can't contain the ';' character, what's wrong ?
-4.9 I try to do a /whois on nick blah\ but i get the reply for blah (without the slash)
-4.10 What is AVATAR protocol ? Is there any documentation about it ?
-4.11 The log files seem to be saved randomly, when I open a log
- I can see only a part of the text that actually should be there
-4.12 The DCC transfers seem to be interrupted after the first few bytes:
- KVIrc says that the remote end has closed the connection.
-
-
-5. ADVANCED IRC FEATURES
-
-5.1 How do I connect to an SSL-enabled IRC server ?
-5.2 How do I use DCC over SSL ?
-5.3 Do I need a SSL certificate ?
-5.4 How do I create a SSL certificate ?
-5.5 I can't get KVIrc to use my SSL certificate in a DCC, what's wrong ?
-5.6 KVIrc crashes when a certificate is used under Windows, what's wrong ?
-5.7 How do I enable mircryption (encryption in general) for a specific channel ?
-5.8 How do I execute a process and send its output to a channel ?
-5.9 How do I keep channels and queries open after a disconnect ?
-5.10 I have an unreliable ISP connection but KVIrc takes a really long
- time to detect a disconnection and reconnect.
-5.11 I'm in a LAN and KVIrc uses a wrong IP address in dcc transfers
-
-6. APPAREANCE
-
-6.1 On Windows KVIrc seems to slow-down sometimes, what's wrong ?
-6.2 I don't see the channel popup menus anymore, what's wrong ?
-6.3 Does KVIrc support Themes?
-6.4 I hate all that colors, what can I do about it ?
-6.5 On Windows, how do I use firefox/opera/any_other_browser to open links instead of explorer ?
-
-
-7. CRASHES
-
-7.1 KVIrc crashes when the multiline text input is opened (obsolete)
-7.2 What the heck is a gdb stack trace and how do I get it ?
-7.3 KVIrc hangs up, but doesn't crash. How do i report debug informations ?
-7.4 KVIrc exits by itself or simply "disappears" without any apparent reason.
-7.5 KVIrc dies randomly and "Alarm Clock" is printed in the console
-7.6 KVIrc dies when using alias(identify){ identify password; }
-
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-1. PROJECT RELATED QUESTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-1.1 What is KVIrc ?
-
- KVIrc is a cross-platform Internet Relay Chat client.
- The name stands for K Visual Internet Relay Chat client.
- The K prefix comes from the old times, when KVIrc was bound to the
- KDE project and depended on the KDE libraries to run. Actually this
- is not true anymore since KVIrc depends only on the Qt library from
- TrollTech and runs also on platforms where KDE can't run.
-
-
-1.2 Why KVIrc is not totally integrated in KDE ?
-
- First of all read the answer for question 1.1.
- We could provide a more complete integration by the means of conditional
- compilation but since it would require additional efforts to synchronize
- the KVIrc sources with the KDE library changes we choose not to do it.
- If you wish to contribute some code that better integrates KVIrc with
- KDE you're welcome to do so: we will happily accept your patches as long
- as you promise to mantain them :)
-
-
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-2. COMPILATION
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-2.1 I can't compile kvirc from svn, what's wrong?
-
- Have you checked the requirements ?
- *Carefully* read the INSTALL file that comes with the distribution:
- it contains the informations to solve 95% of the problems that
- you may encounter. You may also try digging in our mailing list
- archive: many problems have been solved there.
- If you still can't get it to work please either subscribe to the KVIrc
- mailing list (see www.kvirc.net) and report the problem there or join #kvirc
- on IRCNet and ask the channel members for a hint.
-
-
-2.2 Internal Compiler Errors ?
-
- Compile errors like this:
- In file [somefile]:[someline] internal error:
- Segmentation fault
- Please submit a full bug report,
- with preprocessed source if appropriate.
- See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
-
- This error can have multiple reasons.
- 1) A compiler bug: my GCC 3.2 20020903 (default on RH 8.0) spits
- out 5-6 of them daily. Usually it is solved by simply restarting the "make" command.
- If it doesn't go away or if it gets really frequent and annoying you might try to upgrade the compiler.
- 2) A memory corruption: this is really frequent: one of your memory banks is spitting random bytes
- sometimes. Usually the problems come out under heavy system load (kernel, KDE or kvirc compilation for example).
- You can check for memory corruption by trying different RAM modules (or removing them one at a time to discover
- the broken bank). You can also try a program called memtest and a kernel
- patch that can force the broken memory banks to be ignored by the kernel (allocated permanently to a dummy kernel task).
- These tools can be found by digging the web with your favorite search engine.
- 3) A deeper hardware problem: if upgrading the compiler and changing memory banks doesn't help then
- it *might* be a deeper hardware problem: bus errors , faulty IDE (or SCSI) controller or even buggy CPU...
- Well....
-
-
-2.3 On Mandrake 10.0 (or other) KVIrc fails to start
- saying that it can't find libkvisetup.so.
-
- Mandrake 10.0 default libtool package is broken. Either upgrade
- the libtool package or try to run ./autogen.sh --bundled-libtool
- and then recompile (./configure, make, make install).
- This *might* apply to other systems too.
-
-
-2.4 I got 'amarokInterface.cpp:29:31: amarokInterface.moc: No such file or directory'. Whats going wrong?
-
- You have to install qt3 devel tools which include uic and moc. If installed, be sure that uic and moc are in PATH.
-
-
-2.5 Configure complains about a missing libdl.so but I seem to have it
-
- The most common causes are two:
-
- 1) You have libdl.so.X (where X is usually a number or a set of numbers) but not libdl.so
-
- You need to do a symbolic link from libdl.so.X to libdl.so. You do it by entering the directory
- where libdl.so.X is and issuing a ln -s command, for example:
-
- # cd /lib
- # ls libdl*
- # ln -s libdl.so.2 libdl.so
-
- Then try to ./configure again
-
- 2) You don't have a c++ compiler installed
-
- The libdl test is the first ./configure test made with a c++ compiler.
- The confirmation for this error can be found in the config.log file
- where you can find lines similar to the following:
-
- configure:21637: g++ -o conftest conftest.cc -rdynamic -ldl >&5
- ./configure: line 1: g++: command not found
- configure:21643: $? = 127
- configure: failed program was:
- ...
-
- Your distribution probably ships the c++ frontend to gcc in a package
- separated from gcc itself. The package might be also named g++.
- Look it up on your installation CD and install it, then ./configure again.
-
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-3. INSTALLATION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-3.1 There is a problem during package installation/creation
- file /usr/share/services/irc.protocol from install
- kvirc-version.package conflicts with file from package xxx
-
- This is a known issue with all types of packages that handle
- file conflicts. KVIrc installs the irc protocol handler for KDE
- and the same is done by ksirc and kopete (and maybe others).
- There is no particular reason for KVIrc to fix it in the core
- distribution (and there is also no simple way to do it).
- Either the package maker must exclude the irc.protocol
- file from installation or mark it as "optional" in some way or the
- users must use some sort of "force" flag during the installation.
-
-
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-4. IRC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-4.1 How do i join a channel ?
-
- Type "/join #channelname"
-
-
-4.2 How do i autojoin channels?
-
- There are many ways to do it.
- For example:
- Select "Scripting/Events" from the KVIrc menu.
- Lookup the "OnIrc" entry in the left pane of the window that pops up.
- Right-click on that entry and select "Add handler".
- A "default" handler will be created. In the right pane write:
- join #kvirc
- join #kde-users
- join #somechannel
- ....
- Now click OK and you're done: you have just created a handler for an event.
- Reconnect to a server and KVIrc will autojoin the channels that you have selected.
- Another option (nicer, if you use several servers) is to go to the servers options
- page and click the button labeled 'Advanced' on the entry for the single server.
- There is a server-specific "On connect execute..." event.
-
-
-4.3 How do I enable automatic NickServ identification ?
-
- KVIrc supports two kind of NickServ identification rules: per-network and global.
- The per-network rules can be accessed from the server options page.
- You need to select a network in the list view (not a server!) and then click
- "Advanced...". In the dialog that appears there is a NickServ tab
- on that you can add your identification rules. Adding a rule
- should be straightforward (if you stop the mouse over an item you will likely get a small
- tool tip with the explaination). Each rule is composed of:
- - the nickname that is being identified: the rule will be applied only
- when your current nickname corresponds to this one.
- - a nick server user mask that must be matched by the NickServ user
- in order for him to be recognized as the real NickServ asking for
- identification. You will probably use something like NickServ!service@*
- - a message regular expression that must be matched by the message
- that the NickServ sends when requesting the identification.
- You will probably use something like "If this is your nick,
- identify yourself with /ns IDENTIFY password"
- - an identification command that will be executed when all the rules
- above match. You will probably use something like "ns IDENTIFY yourpassword"
- The global rules can be created in the IRC::NickServ page of the options dialog
- (accessible from the Settings/Configure KVIrc... menu). The main difference
- is that each rule has a server mask that must be matched by the current
- server name for the rule to be applied.
- KVIrc first looks in the per-network rules and if none matches it looks
- in the global rules.
-
-
-4.4 I can't see my national characters, what's wrong ?
-
- There are several ways to fix your national characters display.
- General encoding:
- Open the options dialog and go to the "Encoding" page.
- You can set explicitly the encoding to be used for the whole application.
- If you choose "Use Language Encoding" KVIrc will try to guess the
- encoding from your system settings. If this doesn't work then the reasons
- may be:
- - Your system settings are wrong
- You need to fix them
- - Your server applies some specific encoding to the data
- See "Server encoding"
- - You're chatting with people that have different system settings
- See "Channel & Query encoding"
- Server encoding
- Besides the general encoding you can set one encoding per server.
- This is done in the server options dialog (Click Advanced...).
- The encoding will be applied to all the text that comes from
- and goes to the server. If you choose "Use system encoding"
- then the server will inherit the "General encoding" value above.
- If this doesn't work then you have either set it incorrectly or
- you are chatting with people that use different encodings.
- In this case see "Channel & Query encoding"
- The server encoding is used also to decode nicknames and
- channel names on servers that support it.
- Channel & Query encoding
- Besides the general and server encoding you can set also per-window
- encoding in channels and queries. This encoding will be applied
- ONLY to the text sent to or received from that channel or query.
- This feature is useful when chatting over a non unicode aware
- IRC server (nearly all at the time of writing) with people
- that have settings different than your general defaults or
- the server default.
-
- Keep in mind that IRC has a MAJOR problem with character encoding
- and in fact the formal definition of the protocol requires it
- to be only 7bit safe. This means that on some servers you may
- see your national characters eaten by the IRC network and there
- is almost nothing you can do about that...
-
- UTF-8 is the best encoding we can get on IRC. Try to convince
- other people to use it :)
-
-
-4.5 I can't connect to an IPV6 server, what's wrong ?
-
- First of all make sure that your IPV6 stack is setup correctly.
- Can you ping6 other IPV6 other machines ?
-
- # ping6 www.6bone.net
-
- Is the IPV6 support enabled in your kvirc executable ?
- To find it out , try
-
- /echo $features
-
- in the KVIrc commandline. You should get a comma separated list of
- features compiled in the executable. If the list contains "IPv6" then
- the support is compiled in, otherwise you must check your compilation
- stage to guess what went wrong.
- To connect to an IPV6 server you can use /server -i <servername>
- If you can ping other IPV6 machines, the IPv6 support is compiled in your
- executable and you still can't connect to an *existing* IPv6 server then
- you may have found a bug :) Report it.
-
-
-4.6 /me doesn't support the '$' character, what's wrong ?
-
- This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : kvirc supports (and substitutes!) variables in all the commands.
- You can escape your $ sign by using the backslash character: /me has gained \$100 will work correctly
-
-
-4.7 /me doesn't support the '"' (double quote) character, what's wrong ?
-
- This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : a string enclosed in double quotes will have its whitespace preserved
- while the other strings will have the whitespace simplified. This is valid for ANY command.
- You can escape your " sign by using the backslash character: /me feels a bit \"foo\" will work correctly
-
-
-4.8 /me can't contain the ';' character, what's wrong ?
-
- This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : kvirc supports multiple commands on a single line and uses ';' as a command
- separator. You can escape your ';' sign by using the backslash character: /me is hungry \;) will work correctly.
-
-
-4.9 I try to do a /whois on nick blah\ but i get the reply for blah (without the slash)
-
- In KVIrc /whois is a scripting command and the nickname is a command parameter.
- In scripting commands the backslash is a special character with several "escape"
- meanings. To include a literal backslash inside a parameter you MUST double it,
- thus the correct command to issue is /whois blah\\
-
-
-4.10 What is AVATAR protocol? Is there any documentation about it ?
-
- AVATAR is a simple CTCP based protocol that allows associating images (avatars)
- to IRC users. The protocol definition is simple:
-
- - CTCP AVATAR QUERY:
- :<source> PRIVMSG <target> :<0x01>AVATAR<0x01>
- Queries the avatar of the <target>.
- - CTCP AVATAR REPLY:
- :<source> NOTICE <target> :<0x01>AVATAR <avatar_url><0x01>
- Asserts that the <source> user's avatar is located at <avatar_url>
- that usually will be something like http://server.domain.top/avatarimage.jpg.
-
- KVIrc supports also DCC based avatars that are simply "offered" to the
- remote users. In this case the <avatar_url> does not contain the http://
- prefix but is a simple file name. The remote users request the avatars
- by issuing a DCC GET command. This is an useful but secondary extension
- and can be ignored by simple implementations. If you need more informations
- about this method please write to pragma at kvirc dot net.
-
-
-4.11 The log files seem to be saved randomly, when I open a log
- I can see only a part of the text that actually should be there
-
- KVIrc does not explicitly flush the log files while writing them. The OS
- (or the underlying C library) does the flush operation when necessary.
- This means that blocks of the log file will be added to the file on disk
- only once in a while. If you really need to see the logs in real time
- then you can explicitly flush the log files by scripting.
- Just add a script like this to your OnKVIrcStartup event:
-
- timer(flushlogfiles,30000)
- {
- foreach(%x,$window.list(all,any))
- {
- if($log.file(%x))
- {
- echo -w=%x "Flushing log file...";
- log.flush -w=%x;
- }
- }
- }
-
- The script above will flush all the log files every 30 seconds. You may
- remove the echo statement if you're annoyed by the output :)
-
-
-4.12 The DCC transfers seem to be interrupted after the first few bytes:
- KVIrc says that the remote end has closed the connection.
-
- Make sure that you don't have activated the "Send ACK for byte 0"
- option in "Options->DCC->File Transfer->Advanced".
- This option should be used ONLY IF you have problems without.
-
-
-
-
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-5. ADVANCED IRC FEATURES
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-
-
-5.1 How do I connect to an SSL-enabled IRC server ?
-
- Use /server -s <servername>
- It should work also over IPV6.
- If it doesn't work then your executable might have no SSL support compiled in.
- To find it out type
-
- /echo $features
-
- in the KVIrc commandline. If "SSL" is not in the list then you must go back
- to the compilation phase and see what went wrong.
-
-
-5.1 How do I use DCC over SSL ?
-
- /dcc.chat -s <nickname> should work
-
-
-5.3 Do I need a SSL certificate ?
-
- No you shouldn't need it, but you can use it if you want.
-
-
-5.4 How do I create a SSL certificate ?
-
- A test self-signed certificate can be created by using the CA.pl perl script included
- in the OpenSSL distribution. It will be something like CA.pl -newcert
-
-
-5.5 I can't get KVIrc to use my SSL certificate in a DCC, what's wrong ?
-
- The SSL protocol doesn't require the "client" to send the certificate: it is
- sent only if the "server side" requests it (it is not the KVIrc case).
- The server side may have a certificate and you can set it in the SSL options page.
- If your Private Key is stored in the certificate file pass the same filename
- to both Certificate and PrivateKey option.
- Remember to set the password if needed.
-
-
-5.6 KVIrc crashes when a certificate is used under Windows, what's wrong ?
-
- This is probably a bug of the SSL dll shipped with the windows version of KVIrc.
- You might try with a different version of this dll.
-
-
-5.7 Can I encrypt my messages?
-(or: How do I enable mircryption (encryption in general) for a specific channel?)
-
- KVIrc supports encryption for channels, queries and dcc chats by the means
- of text transformation engines. You can access the list of the engines
- by clicking the button with the yellow lock in the upper right corner
- of the window. In the pane that will appear select "use text transformation"
- and then choose one of the available engines.
- The Mircryption engine is an implementation of the mircryption protocol and
- supports both ECB and CBC mode. There is also a wide variety of Rijndael based encryption
- engies as well as some funky other text transform tricks.
- Most of the engines will need a pair of keys to encrypt and decrypt text
- and in most cases you will use the same key for both encrypting and
- decrypting. In the particular case of Mircryption you can enable
- CBC mode by prefixing your key(s) with the "cbc:" string.
- Once you have entered the keys just click on OK and start "talking" in the
- window. Any encrypted text will have a "lock" overlay in his icon.
- If you want to avoid encrypting a particular text line (maybe because
- you want to allow everyone on a channel to read it) you can start
- the line with a CTRL+P character.
-
-
-5.8 How do I execute a process and send its output to a channel ?
-
- The straight way to do this is
-
- /exec("your command here"){ say $1; }
-
- Since it is not too much "user friendly", you can alias it in
- the following way:
-
- alias(runandsay)
- {
- exec($0-){ say $1; }
- }
-
- Then you would simply run
-
- /runandsay cat /proc/cpuinfo
-
- in the channel window you want the output sent to.
-
- Keep in mind that this is a "brute" approach and I'm sure that after
- reading some documentation (start from /help exec) you will be able to
- find more elaborate and nice ways to send a process output to a channel/query.
-
-
-5.9 How do I keep channels and queries open after a disconnect ?
-
- KVIrc can keep your channels and queries open when the connection terminates
- unexpectedly. This will probably make sense only if you plan to
- reconnect to the same server or at least the same network (either manually
- or automatically).
-
- An "unexpected disconnect" is a connection termination not explicitly caused by
- the KVIrc user. This means that the connection is interrupted, either
- by the networking stack or by the remote server, without the user
- having sent a QUIT message (by the means of the /quit command or by pressing
- the "disconnect" button in the toolbar).
-
- All this because the normal behaviour of a /QUIT command is, yes, to quit
- your current connection without leaving traces of it.
-
- To keep the channels and queries open you just need to select the
- relative options in the "Connection" page of the options dialog
- (on unexpected disconnect: "Keep channels open" an/or "Keep queries open").
-
- Then you might also select "Automatically reconnect", "Rejoin channels
- after reconnect" and "Reopen queries after reconnect" to bring your
- "dead windows" to life again :)
-
- Finally, you can simulate an "unexpected disconnection" by using the -u switch
- of the /quit command. This might be useful when you want to explicitly
- quit your connection while leaving the channels and queries open... maybe
- because you need to renew the connection to your ISP before reconnecting ;)
-
-
-5.10 I have an unreliable ISP connection but KVIrc takes a really long
- time to detect a disconnection and reconnect.
-
- KVIrc doesn't detect itself that the connection has dropped until your
- kernel explicitly times out. KVIrc measures lag, instead, that will
- probably grow up a lot when the connection has dropped.
- You can write a handler for the OnLagCheck event that will detect
- the lag growing over a certain threshold and reconnect.
- This involves opening the event editor, selecting OnLagCheck
- and choosing "Add handler" from the right mouse menu.
- In the handler write:
-
- if($1 > 30000){ quit -f -u; }
-
- 30000 is just a sample threshold (it means 30000 milliseconds!), replace
- it with a value of your choice.
- quit -f -u will close the current connection immediately (-f = force)
- and will simulate an "unexpected disconnection" condition (-u = unexpected).
- If you then enable automatic reconnection (see answer for question 5.9)
- in the options dialog, KVIrc will automatically reconnect and rejoin channels.
-
-
-5.11 I'm in a LAN and KVIrc uses a wrong IP address in dcc transfers
-
- KVIrc supports a couple of methods for guessing the right IP address for
- DCC transfers: you only have to guide it a bit :)
-
- The first thing to try is "Guess address from IRC when unroutable" (Options->DCC).
- This will perform a lookup on your own IRC mask once you connect
- to an IRC server and use the address as source in DCC transfers.
- (You need to reconnect to the server to make this option work!)
- This trick will fail when your hostmask is cloaked (mode +x on recent IRC servers):
- KVIrc will tell you that it couldn't look up the hostname and give up.
-
- In this case you might try to set a fixed address to be sent as source
- in the DCC transfers: you just need to fill in the *IP address* of your
- router in the option field. This field doesn't support hostname lookups
- and it won't update automatically when you router's IP changes.
- However, if you router's IP has a dns entry, you can ask KVIrc to fill
- this field with a simple script to be performed at every connection.
-
- event(OnIRCConnectionEstabilished,updatedccsource)
- {
- ahost(yourrouterhostname.dyndns.org)
- {
- option boolDCCSendFakeAddressByDefault 1
- if($1)option stringDefaultDCCFakeAddress $2
- else echo "Couldn't look up the router's hostname"
- }
- }
-
- When transferring files to other KVIrc clients you may also try the
- DCC RSEND protocol instead of DCC SEND. It will ask the remote end
- to listen instead.
-
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-6. APPAREANCE
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-
-6.1 On Windows KVIrc seems to slow-down sometimes, what's wrong ?
-
- This is usually caused by the heavy graphics: try removing some graphic effects like the
- pseudo-transparency. I have experimented that it happens almost always on 32-bit displays.
- Switching to 16 or 24 bits may also help.
-
-
-6.2 I don't see the channel popup menus anymore, what's wrong ?
-
- If something went wrong with KVIrc settings (a crash when the script settings
- were saved ?) or if you have messed with the scripting options and you
- want to get back the original behaviour (default script) you can choose
- "Scripting/Restore default script" from the KVIrc menu.
- (WARNING: It will erase any script modification you have made!)
- Update: starting with the cvs of 2005.01.17, KVIrc should be able to
- detect such situations and automatically suggest the re-installation of the
- default script.
-
-6.3 Does KVIrc support Themes?
-
- Yes, KVIrc now has introduced a Theme Manager. You can find it in the Option dialog.
- From there you can change the way KVIrc looks: fonts, colors, windows behaviour,
- icons, taskbars, and so on.
- Once you have changed the theme, you can save it, archive it (tar.bz2 or zip) and share with your friends,
- or send it to the KVIrc staff to see it published on the web site.
-
-
-6.4 I hate all that colors, what can I do about it ?
-
- By fiddling with the options you can make KVIrc appear even monochromatic.
- Go to Options/Theme and select the minimalist theme: it will set white text
- on black background and will disable the displaying of a lot of icons.
- This is a good starting point for you console addicted hackerz :D
-
-
-6.5 On Windows, how do I use firefox/opera/any_other_browser to open links instead of explorer ?
-
- Go to the "URL Handlers" options page and set
-
- run "C:\\path\\to\\your\\browser.exe" "$0"
-
- as url handler for the protocol you're interested in (maybe in all).
-
- Suepahfly suggests to use
-
- rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "$0"
-
- as url handler to open the url in the default windows browser.
-
-
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-7. CRASH
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-
-7.1 KVIrc crashes when the multiline text input is opened (obsolete)
-
- If you have installed a new version of KVIrc over a previous installation
- br if you have changed the Qt libraries that KVIrc is linked to then
- it might be caused by a broken multiline text editor config.
- Try removing $HOME/.kvircssexeditorrc and starting KVIrc again.
- Update: this problem has been completely removed during late 2004 developments
- by completely rewriting the multiline input.
-
-
-7.2 What the heck is a gdb stack trace and how do I get it ?
-
- A gdb stack trace is a "photography" of the state of the KVIrc internals
- taken when a certain event has occured. The most common event
- is a program crash (Segmentation Fault).
- The stack trace helps (or even allows) the developers to locate the
- crash cause in the program sources.
- To obtain a gdb stack trace you must:
-
- - Compile KVIrc with the --enable-debug ./configure option.
- Without this switch the stack trace is USELESS.
- - Have a working installation of gdb (the gnu debugger)
- This is usually available on your distribution cd
- and you may already have it installed.
- - Run KVirc:
- # gdb kvirc
- When the gdb prompt appears write:
- # (gdb) run -f
- Make KVIrc crash: gdb will tell something about
- a signal received by the program. Write then:
- # (gdb) bt
- The text you see is the stack trace you wanted :)
- Copy+Paste+Send it to pragma at kvirc dot net or the mailing list.
-
-
-7.3 KVIrc hangs up, but doesn't crash. How do i report debug informations ?
-
- Use gdb to get a stack trace as in answer to question 7.2.
- Since your KVIrc doesn't crash you will have to interrupt the execution
- manually while it is hung up. You can do it by pressing CTRL+C in gdb.
-
-
-7.4 KVIrc exits by itself or simply "disappears" without any apparent reason.
-
- Yes. It probably crashed but you haven't noticed that.
- We NEED a gdb stack trace or a working procedure to reproduce the
- behaviour in order to hunt it.
-
-
-7.5 KVIrc dies randomly and "Alarm Clock" is printed in the console
-
- Try recompiling kvirc by adding the --with-ignore-sigalarm switch to
- ./configure. (Note: the reason of the incoming SIGALARM signals
- on certain systems is acually unknown. Please send hints to pragma at kvirc dot net).
-
-
-7.6 KVIrc dies when using alias(identify){ identify password; };
-
- This is infinite recursion: a programming error.
- Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop , learn
- that once for all and fix your script.
-
+See doc/README