I use Xchat with growl. works ok, except on high traffic channels. -Eric On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> When I first opened Colloquy, I'm presented a dialog to put in my nick name. > I did this, and hit vo+right arrow. Eventually, I got a... what appears! to > be combo box, of a list of i r c servers. I hit vo+space to drop the list > down, at which point I was presented a list of preconfigured servers. I > couldn't find any way to type in a server manually. It finally dawned on me, > that maybe this is an edit! combo, not a combo box as Voiceover's reporting. > So, I tried instead of hitting vo+down arrow to open the box, just typing in > a server address manually. So I typed > > gamebird.ehhh.us > > I left everything else completely alone, and hit connect. It let me in, but > then, in the file menu of the menu bar, If I went to join channel, I again > get a combo box or so it looks for the channels. When I vo+space on it to > open it, then vo+down arrow, I get nothing, and if I just simply down arrow > without the vo keys, it bwonks at me. I tried typing in manually a channel > name that I darnwell know! is on this server, as I go up there on my windows > machine with Mirc with Tirc Ralph very regularly and it works flawlessly. > > I also tried just in case maybe the protocol wasn't set correctly and this > server doesn't use i r c, I tried all the other ones in that combo box before > connecting, but when I do, it won't let me connect, so it's obvious, I was > correct in the first place. If I put irc dot before the address, IE: > irc.gamebird.ehhh.us, it won't connect at all. I'm using the standard port > 6667, which is exactly what I'm using on the Windows side of things that > works fine. So, yeah, either something's broken accessibility wize with > Colloquy, or I just don't have a clue what I'm doing. Probably the ladder. > > I know there was another i r c client suggested, but I can't for the life a > me remember it, it was like X... sopmething X, or what not. I don't > remember... sorry... > > Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I really wanna get i r c working on > the Mac, but if I can't, well, I guess I just can't. Sighs. > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
