Like a lot of people I have my irssi on a server in a screen. This has
been working great so far but my only concerns are the notifications
on the desktop when something happening.
Over the time I have found some different solution with mitigated
results for me :
- Use fanotify script with the libnotify-bin and SSH like mentioned here.
- Setup your irssi (or other) as irc proxy bouncer and connect with
your desktop client (like xchat) to get notification.
The fanotify is kind of very hacky on a laptop with intermittent
connection and having a cron doing a ssh every minutes or so is not
ideal, not talking about no passphrase ssh key or having to snoop the
SSH_AGENT variable to connect without password.
The via proxy method is not my thing and I don’t feel like having
xchat open all the time just for it and I anyway usually forget to
launch it.
My solution is to have a plugin for irssi notify me via XMPP if there
is a direct message addressed to me. I usually get my pidgin or gmail
alway open and if i don’t since it goes to a gmail account I got gmail
sending me an email about it.
You can find all the information about the install and configuration
here :
This is very cool.
One thing I found out was that it didn’t work trying to send from a GTalk account. That said receiving messages on a Gtalk account is fine as long as you add the sending user as a buddy (naturally this depends on configuration). I ended up creating an account with jabber.no and configured the script to send from that.