{"id":5138,"date":"2015-07-28T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:13:54","slug":"relay-modern-irc-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/relay-modern-irc-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay &#8211; A New Fast, Modern, Streamlined IRC Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-icon.png\" alt=\"Relay IRC Client\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Relay is a new IRC client designed for Elementary OS that aims to be small, fast, and elegant. It&#8217;s written in Vala and also works in Ubuntu and other Linux.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Relay uses very few libraries and takes less memory (<30mb usually). The project was created in June of 2015 so as of now it is a young project with functionality rapidly being added to it. So far, it features:\n\n\t\n\n<ul>\n<li>drag and drop to Hastebin &#8211; drag files to the paste icon will upload all of them and put the URL&#8217;s in the output window.<\/li>\n<li>A missed message count.<\/li>\n<li>Highlighting tabs with activity from IRC servers.<\/li>\n<li>Drag and drop reordering of tabs.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic IRC channel connecting<\/li>\n<li>URL parsing and the ability to open your browser when clicked<\/li>\n<li>Highlights the name of your or anyone else when mentioned in a chat<\/li>\n<li>Right click tab switching.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to switch channels through tabs or the sidebar.<\/li>\n<li>It supports languages that use UTF-8 characters.<\/li>\n<li>Although Relay was built on Elementary OS it will switch the theme depending on what operating system you are using.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to search users<\/li>\n<li>The ability to see where you left off since you last visited a tab<\/li>\n<li>The ability to control many settings and set colors in the UI<\/li>\n<li>Click a user name to have their name placed in the text entry<\/li>\n<li>Private messaging and ability to block users<\/li>\n<li>The ability to turn on or off joining or exiting messages<\/li>\n<li>Creates a datestamp every 5 minutes to give you a timeline of what has happened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-start.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-start-450x243.jpg\" alt=\"Relay IRC start window\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-start-450x243.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-start-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-start.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-channel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-channel-450x243.jpg\" alt=\"Relay IRC client in Elementary OS Freya\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-channel-450x243.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-channel-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-channel.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-unity.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-unity-450x241.jpg\" alt=\"Relay IRC client in Unity\" width=\"450\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-unity-450x241.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-unity-600x321.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-unity.jpg 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-gnome.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-gnome-450x249.jpg\" alt=\"Relay Irc client in Gnome\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-gnome-450x249.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-gnome-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-gnome.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the moment of writing this tutorial there are two bugs for Ubuntu user and I&#8217;ve reported them to the project page:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Unity desktop, when you try to minimize Relay window by clicking its icon on left Launcher, session crashes immediately and brings you back to login screen. &#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/compiz\/+bug\/1478272\" target=\"_blank\">Bug with Compiz<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li>In Gnome Shell, there&#8217;s a reading issue (Picture 4) &#8211; <b>Fixed<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b><u>Install Relay IRC client from PPA:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The developer has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~agronick\/+archive\/ubuntu\/relay\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> for the project. So far, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Elementary OS Freya are supported.<\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE: Ubuntu 14.04 needs updated version of libgranite (>= 0.3.0) and GTK+3.0 (>= 3.14). You can get them from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ricotz\/+archive\/ubuntu\/testing\" target=\"_blank\">Gnome Testing PPA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~elementary-os\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\">Elementary Stable PPA<\/a>. But using the PPAs could break your system or make it unstable! Do it at your own risk! <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To add the PPA, open terminal from the Dash, Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:agronick\/relay<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-client-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-client-ppa-450x96.jpg\" alt=\"relay-irc-client-ppa\" width=\"450\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-client-ppa-450x96.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-client-ppa-600x128.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/relay-irc-client-ppa.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After added the PPA, install the software via <i>Synaptic Package Manager<\/i>. Or just run below commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install relay<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/agronick\/relay\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/r\/relay\/\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feature requests and issues please report at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/agronick\/Relay\" target=\"_blank\">github.com\/agronick\/Relay<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relay is a new IRC client designed for Elementary OS that aims to be small, fast, and elegant. It&#8217;s written in Vala and also works in Ubuntu and other Linux. Relay uses very few libraries and takes less memory (= 0.3.0) and GTK+3.0 (>= 3.14). You can get them from Gnome Testing PPA and Elementary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[577],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-irc-client"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}