Barnowl Wiki

From BarnOwl

Barnowl is an instant messaging client with a particular focus on zephyr but with some support for other protocols. Barnowl is in active development. This wiki is intended as a repository for unofficial documentation, interesting customizations, and extensions to barnowl to improve the functionality or the appearance of the software. Many of these customizations will work with regular owl too.

Getting Started with barnowl: How most people use barnowl, and how to set barnowl up that way for yourself.

Get the Source

Contents 1 FAQ 2 Jabber 3 Filters 4 Styles 5 Developer Documentation

FAQ

User FAQ

Jabber

Basic usage of barnowl's Jabber commands.

Filters

Getting gratuitous with colors using filters: 72-color-combinations
Organizing zephyr classes with filters: Filters:Organizing
Coloring classes with filters: Filters:Coloring
A filter to catch zephyrs with URLs in the message body: Filters:URLs

Styles

Making a new style by tweaking a copy of the code for the default style: StyleTemplate

Developer Documentation

• BarnOwl API perldocs
• CreatingAModule