IRC Tool question

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 19 09:16:27 BST 2009


On Wednesday 19 August 2009 07:44:35 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-08-19, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 00:47, Kevin Kempter<kevink at consistentstate.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all;
> > >
> > > most of my clients use IM to communicate realtime, however I have one
> > > who uses their own IRC server. Is there a way I can setup KDE or a
> > > specific IRC chat tool to alert me with a desktop popup message
> > > whenever my name is used in an irc room?
> > >
> > > Currently I'm using Konversation and I have it set to "watch" for my
> > > username but I'm not getting any alerts
> >
> > You're probably looking in the wrong place. Watches in Konversation
> > are to notify you when someone comes online so you can for example
> > check when your friend comes online to tell him something important.
> > What you want is called highlight. Search for it in the settings.
>
> My guess is that Kevin means highlights, but that he is missing the
> notification part:
>
> Settings -> Configure Notifications
>
> There is even one spefically for the use case of own nick name appearing in
> a channel.
>
As well as being able to add a sound, you can also cause the taskbar to flash.

Anne
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