Welcome to BarnOwl

BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project. BarnOwl currently supports Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, and IRC, and aims to be easily extensible and customizable through a Perl plugin interface.

BarnOwl News

• December 31, 2009: BarnOwl 1.5 Released. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• October 19, 2009: BarnOwl 1.4 Released. Download it here. or see the ChangeLog
• August 16, 2009: BarnOwl 1.3 Released. Download it here, read the announcement or see the ChangeLog
• See OldNews for old announcements.

Exploring BarnOwl

• Download BarnOwl!
• GettingStarted with BarnOwl on Athena
  • Getting help from the BuiltinDocs
  • Some UsefulCommands
• CustomizingAndExtending BarnOwl
  • Introductory ​slides
  • Creating Filters
  • Setting Keybindings
  • Using Plugins
  • Creating your own plugins.
  • ColorUtils
• BarnOwl's code review policy for developers.
• The old MediaWiki -- if you find anything useful there that's not here, move it over!

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