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+date: 2019-12-30T06:14:07Z +replaces: [developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch] +M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>. If there +is no META, EDIT or ALT key, instead press and release the ESC key and then type +<chr> in quick succession. +### How do I switch between windows? +You can press `M-n`/`M-p` to go to the next/previous window, or `M-N` where N is +1-9. You can also press `M-w` to bring out a list of all the windows. In the +window list, you can select a row and press return to go to that window. +### How can I close a window? +### How can I show a window's menu? +The default key-binding is F10. Note that not all windows have a menu. +### How can I pop up a widget's context menu? +The default key-binding is F11. +### Can I change the bindings? How? +Yes! For details on how to do this, read 'man finch'. Here's a small example to +show how to rebind alt+ctrl+n to switch to the next window: In `~/.gntrc`, add +Note that, the default binding alt+n will continue to switch to the next window. +If you want to unbind that, add +To see the list of available rebindable actions for the focused widget, press +### How can I enable the mouse? {#enable-mouse} +In `~/.gntrc`, set `mouse = 1` under `[general]` as well as under `[Finch]`. If +you use screen or tmux, [read more](#mouse-in-tmux). +### If I enable the mouse, I cannot select text from the terminal any more. {#terminal-select} +When the mouse is enabled, hold shift to use your terminal's mouse selecting. +### My arrow keys are not working. What can I do? +Make sure there is a correct terminfo setting for your terminal. For example, +try setting \$TERM to "screen" instead of "screen.linux". +### How do I see the parts of a large window that fall below the screen? +Press M+ctrl+j to scroll down, and M+ctrl+k to scroll up. +### Is there anything else I change in ~/.gntrc? +In 'man finch', look at the 'general', 'colors' and 'colorgroups' sections in +### How can I add a buddy, or a chat, or a group? +- Select a group in the buddylist. +- Press F11 to bring out the context menu. Select "Add Buddy" or "Add Chat". +### How can I auto-join a chat? +- Select the chat in the buddylist. +- Bring out the context menu. Select 'Auto-join'. +### How can I expand/collapse contacts? +- Select the contact and press Space. +### How can I move buddies/chats into another group? +- Select the buddy/chat you want to move in the buddylist. +- Press 't' to tag the buddy/chat. You can tag more than one buddy/chat at the +- Select the buddy/group you want to move the tagged buddies to. +- Press 'a' to attach. The buddies will be attached to the selected contact. + The chats will be attached to the current group. +### How can I show offline buddies? +- In the buddylist, press F10 to bring up the menu. +- Select 'Options' | 'Show' | 'Offline buddies' +### I closed the buddylist. Can I get it back again? +Yes! Press `M-a` to bring out the actions menu, select 'Buddy List'. +### In chats, can I see the list of users in the chatroom? +Yes. Use the `/users` command. (after 2.0.0. Until then, press tab and all the +users will be presented in the tab-completion dropdown) +### In a conversation with a contact, can I select which buddy the message is sent to? +Yes. Bring out the menu for the conversation window. Select the buddy from the +'Send To' menu. (after 2.0.0) +### Can I select multi-line texts/urls from a conversation window? +Yes. First, [enable the mouse](#enable-mouse). Then click+drag the mouse to +select the text. This will copy the selected text into the internal clipboard. +You can then press `alt+shift+c`, which will show the text from the internal +clipboard at the top of the screen. You can then select the text +[using your terminal's mouse selecting](#terminal-select). Press `M+shift+c` to +close the clipboard container. +### Is there a pounce/debug/file-transfer/preference/plugins/status window? +Yes! Press `M-a` to bring out the actions menu. Select the window you want to +### How do I get the mouse working in screen or tmux? {#mouse-in-tmux} +You can do a bunch of things with the mouse in finch (after putting "mouse = 1" +in ~/.gntrc), including selecting text over multiple lines in conversation +windows, which is hard to do with the mouse selection in your terminal - so +having the mouse enabled in finch can be advantageous. For at least a few +people, screen is missing the kmous capability entry in its terminfo. Here's how +From the terminal in which you run screen, and while not in screen: +infocmp | sed -n 's/.*\(kmous=[^,]\+\).*/\1/p' +(from what I've read, for this to work in ncurses, the value "must" be +"\\E\[M"?) Within screen: +Open tmp and add the kmous entry from above, save and close and do: +For tmux users, please note screen uses the same terminfo description as tmux +### In screen, when I press esc, there is a huge delay, how can this be reduced? +Finch adds its own small delay after pressing esc, to allow pressing esc then +<whatever> in quick succession for alt-X shortcuts where your alt key may be +missing. Screen also does this, so to avoid having both applications add the +delay: maptimeout 0 into ~/.screenrc Alternatively, type C-a :maptimeout 0 while +### Can I use Finch with Terminal.app? +Only if you use OS X Leopard (10.5). The Terminal in previous versions of OS X +does not properly emulate a terminal and cannot render Finch correctly. There +are a couple of notes to be aware of: +- I ([rekkanoryo](/wiki/rekkanoryo)) have had the best results by configuring + Terminal to identify as rxvt. To do this, select Preferences from the + Terminal menu. Click the Settings icon, then select the Advanced button. + Select rxvt from the "Declare terminal as:" list. +- Although it appears to be the default, verify that Terminal is configured to + use UTF-8 for encoding. To do so, select Preferences from the Terminal menu, + then click the Settings icon, then select the Advanced button. Under + International, make sure "Unicode (UTF-8)" is selected from the Character + encoding list. Also ensure "Set LANG environment variable on startup" is +- Thus far, the Terminal.app instructions have been tested only by using ssh + to log into a remote Linux machine with Finch installed. We have not yet + tested Terminal.app with a copy of Finch built for OS X. +On OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and with a copy of Finch built for OS X, one can get +better results running Finch inside screen instead of directly in Terminal.app. +### How can I use the "meta" shortcuts listed above? +In Terminal, select Preferences from the Terminal menu. Click the Settings icon, +then select the Keyboard button. Check the box labeled "Use option as meta key". +### Page Up and Page Down don't work right. Can I fix it? +Yes. By default, Terminal.app uses Page Up and Page Down to scroll through the +scrollback, as you would by using the scroll bar at the side of the window. You +can change this to scroll through the conversation history in Finch, which has +the side effect of working as a correct Page Up and Page Down in vim and other +terminal-based applications. To do so: +1. Select Preferences from the Terminal menu. +2. Click the Settings icon, then select the Keyboard button. +3. In the list of keys, find "page up" and click Edit. +4. In the Action list, select "send string to shell:", then click in the entry +5. Press the esc key, then type `[5~`. You should now see `\033[5~` in the +7. In the list of keys, find "page down" and click Edit. +8. In the Action list, select "send string to shell:", then click in the entry +9. Press the esc key, then type `[6~`. You should now see `\033[6~` in the +Note that by following these directions, you will no longer be able to use Page +Up and Page Down to view normal terminal history (such as output generated from +running scripts, commands, etc.), so you will now have to use the scroll bar or +a mouse's scroll function to scroll through it. 