Hexchat

Hexchat is an IRC client. Under Guix Home Manager, hexchat doesn't behave nicely however. It wants to use its configuration directory as the place to store your backlog. Even though we can fix this by using symlinks to a read-write directory, it will still warn you that it cannot write to its configuration directory. Don't worry, this message is harmless, though annoying.

Main Configuration

The main configuration is not complete compared to the configuration possibilities of the client. It currently only implements a very minimal set of configurations that are required for it to work properly.

Scheme Variable: hexchat-home-type

The type of the service that generates configuration files for hexchat. Its value is an hexchat-configuration object.

Data Type: hexchat-configuration

Data type that represents the Hexchat configuration. This data type has the following fields:

• servlist (default '()): A list of networks the user can connect to. See Network Configuration below.
• log-dir: A read-write log directory.
• scrollback-dir: A read-write directory to store your backlog.

Example

(user-home
  hexchat-home-type
  (hexchat-configuration
    (servlist
      (list
        (hexchat-server
          (name "Rézosup")
          (servers '("irc.rezosup.org/6697"))
          (flags '(cycle global honor-proxy ssl favorite
                   allow-invalid-certificates)))))
    (log-dir "/data/alice/.local/share/hexchat/logs")
    (scrollback-dir "/data/alice/.local/share/hexchat/scrollback")))

Network Configuration

Each network in the servlist can be configured with the following data type:

Data Type: hexchat-server

This data type represents a network with its servers and configuration. It contains the following fields:

• name: Name of the network, as displayed to the user.
• identities (default '()): A list of zero, one or two identities that the client will try to use on this network. If no identity is provided, use the default ones. If only one is provided, try the first one, and if not present, try the default second identity.
• real-name (default #f): A string that represents the real name of the user.
• encoding (default: 'utf8): a symbol or string that represents the encoding used on the network.
• servers: A list of servers that are part of the network, as a list of strings. Each server is represented by a string of the form "server/port".
• flags (default: '(cycle global honor-proxy)): A list of flags for this network. The possible flags are cycle to cycle through the servers of the network, global to use global configuration on this network, ssl to use ssl/tls to connect to the servers on this network, auto-connect to automatically connect to this network when hexchat is started, honor-proxy to honor system-wide proxy configuration, allow-invalid-certificates to allow invalid certificates (self-signed, expired, ...) and favorite to add it to the list of favorite networks.