Features

Smuxi currently supports the following features

User Interface Features

• Detachable Frontend (frontend can be detached from a smuxi-server)
• Desktop Notifications (with full support of actions, icons, updates, append and sound)
• Messaging Menu / Indicators (as provided by Ubuntu's Ayatana project)
• Integrated Spell Checking (Linux-only)
• Unified Nickname Colors (identical color across channels and networks)
• Caret-Mode (keyboard navigation through messages)
• Browse Mode (allows to navigate through tabs without moving the markerline)
• Regular and Bash-Style Nickname Completion
• Full Keyboard Control
• Message / Command History
• Configurable Command Character
• Quick Connect Dialog (simply connect to any server)
• Join Bar (easily connect/join to servers/chats)
• Find Group Chat Dialog
• Alphabetically sorted chats grouped by network
• Favicons for Server chats
• Colors are checked and adjusted for optimium contrast
• Clickable URLs
• Word Wrapping
• Indention of multi-line messages
• Configurable Highlight Words
• Markerlines which divide old messages from new messages
• Toggle-able menubar / status bar
• Full screen mode
• Themeing Support
  • Configurable Font
  • Foreground / Background Color
  • Chat Activity Colors
  • Configurable Timestamps
  • Configurable Tray-Icon Support

Connectivity Features

• Multiple Server Support (you can connect to more than one server)
• Multiple Identities: each server can have different nick and real name (since 0.11)
• NetworkManager Support (automatically reconnects to servers on laptop resume)
• HTTP / SOCKS Proxy Support
• SSL Support (with optional certificate validation)
• IPv6 Support
• Multiple Protocol Support
  • IRC
  • Twitter (since 0.7)
  • Google Talk 1 (since 0.8.9)
  • Facebook Chat 2 (since 0.8.9)
  • Jabber 3 (since 0.8.9)
  • XMPP 4 (since 0.8.9)
  • Campfire (since 0.8.11)
  • SignalR JabbR (since 0.9)

IRC Features

• Configurable Encoding (ISO-8859-1/15, UTF-8, etc)
• Automatic UTF-8 recode
• Stripping Colors and/or Formattings from Messages
• Showing mIRC Colors
• Splitting oversized messages
• Channel List / Search
• CTCP Support including a Menu
• Invite To Menu
• Lag Indicator
• Flood detection and prevention

Twitter Features

• OAuth authentication
• Twitter v1.1 API
• Reading and posting tweets
• Searching, retweeting and replying to tweets (since 0.10)
• Reading timelines of other users (since 0.10)
• Home Timeline view
• Replies view
• Direct Messages view
• Highlight support

XMPP Features

• Contact List: show and rename online contacts, Invite To Menu, /contact command
• Configurable priorities
• Highlight support
• Show chat rooms on own server (XEP-0030) (since 0.10)
• Multi-User Chat (MUC) support (XEP-0045)
• /me Command support (XEP-0245)
• Chat State Notifications (XEP-0085) (since 0.10)

Campfire Features

• Automatically opens active rooms on connect
• List and search of available rooms using the Find Group Chat dialog

SignalR JabbR Features

• Automatically opens active rooms on connect
• Message History (since 0.10)
• List and search of available rooms using the Find Group Chat dialog
• Sending/receiving public and private messages

Automatization

• Auto Connect (automatically connect to defined servers)
• Startup Commands (when Smuxi starts)
• On Connect Commands (when connecting to a server)
• Logging Support
• Fully customizable filters (to ignore messages or events)
• Smuxi Hooks / Scripting / Plugin Support
  • All programming and scripting languages supported

Localization

Smuxi is translated to 25 languages:

• Afrikaans (partial)
• Catalan (partial)
• Chinese Simp
• Croatian (partial)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish (partial)
• French
• German
• Greek (partial)
• Italian (partial)
• Lithuanian
• Persian (partial)
• Polish
• Portuguese (partial)
• Portuguese Brazil (partial)
• Russian (partial)
• Slovak (partial)
• Spanish
• Spanish Argentina (partial)
• Swedish
• Telugu (partial)
• Turkish
• Urdu (partial)