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<H2><A NAME="s5">5. Settings</A> </H2>

<H2><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1 Interface</A>
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<P>
<UL>
<LI>No Server List On Startup - When set the server is not shown on program
startup</LI>
<LI>Auto Save URL List - Save the URL list on exit</LI>
<LI>Double Click Command - The command that is run when a user in the userlist
is double clicked. %s in the option is replaced with the nickname of
that user before running.</LI>
</UL>
<H3>IRC Input/Output </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Nick Name Completion - When set text put in will be scanned for incomplete
nicknames at the beginning and corrected. Also see tab nickname completion</LI>
<LI>Time Stamp All Text - When set a time is printed at the beginning of every
line</LI>
<LI>Tab Nicks - When set nicknames and text are aligned with a tab</LI>
<LI>Colored Nicks - When set nicknames are color coded</LI>
<LI>Strip mIRC Color - When set all color codes in received text are stripped</LI>
<LI>Filter out BEEP's - When set all BEEP codes are stripped</LI>
<LI>Text Buffer Size - The number of lines a text box buffers (0 = all lines)</LI>
<LI>ZVT Buffer Size - The number of lines a ZVT text box buffers</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Window Layout </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Channel Mode Buttons - When set the mode buttons are displayed on the tool
bar</LI>
<LI>User List Buttons - When set the command buttons under the userlist are
displayed</LI>
<LI>New Tabs to Front - When set new tabs are set to be the visible tab</LI>
<LI>Channel Tabs - When set new channels are displayed in tabs</LI>
<LI>Private Message Tabs - When set private dialogs are displayed in tabs</LI>
<LI>Tabs at bottom - When set the tabs are put at the bottom of the notebook</LI>
<LI>Use a separate tab/window for server messages - When this is set server
messages are treated as a channel and are put in their own tab or window</LI>
<LI>Disable Paned Userlist - When this is set the userlist cannot be paned
across to be made bigger and is of fixed size</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Mail Window </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Left and Top set the initial position of the XChat window</LI>
<LI>Width and Height set the size of the XChat window</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Channel Windows &amp; Dialog Windows </H3>

<P>These two sections are the same except on what they effect
<P>
<UL>
<LI>Normal Font - The font used for normal text</LI>
<LI>Bold Font - The font used for bold text</LI>
<LI>Background Picture - An image used in the background of the text box</LI>
<LI>Use ZVT - When set a ZVT (Zed Virtual Terminal, no connection to zed) widget
is used not a GTK text box</LI>
<LI>Transparent Background - (only with ZVT) When set the background of the
ZVT is pseudo-transparent</LI>
<LI>Tint Transparency - (only with above) When set the transparent background
is tinted</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Panel </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Hide Session on Panelize - When set the tab/window is hidden when panelized</LI>
<LI>Layout For a Vertical Panel - When set the panel buttons are packed top
to bottom</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2 IRC</A>
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<P>
<UL>
<LI>Raw Mode Display - When set modes are shown in raw IRC mode rather than
descriptive texts</LI>
<LI>Beep on Private Messages - When set the internal bell is sounded on a private
message</LI>
<LI>Quit Message - The text sent as a reason for you quitting</LI>
<LI>DNS Lookup Program - The name of the program used to lookup IP's</LI>
<LI>Auto ReConnect Delay - The number of seconds to wait before reconnecting
to a server</LI>
</UL>
<H3>IP Address </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Autodetect hostname - When set the hostname is auto probed</LI>
<LI>Autodetect IP address - When set the local IP is auto probed</LI>
<LI>Hostname - If not auto probing this is the hostname</LI>
<LI>IP address - If not auto probing this is the IP</LI>
<LI>Get my IP from Server - (only if auto probing) Gets the IP address from
the server</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Away </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Show away once - When set away messages are only seen once</LI>
<LI>Announce away messages - When set your away message is broadcast</LI>
<LI>Away Reason - The default away message given</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Highlighting </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Extra Words to Highlight on - Words other than your nickname that will
trigger a highlight</LI>
<LI>Hilighted Nick Color - The color set for highlighted nicks</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Logging </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Logging - When set logs are created in ~/.xchat/xchatlogs</LI>
<LI>No ServerName in logs - When set the names of the log files do not include
the servername so #somechannel on two different servers are treated as
the same file</LI>
</UL>
<H3>Notification </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Highlight Notifies - When set nicks in the userlist are set to a highlight
color if they are on your notify list</LI>
<LI>Notified User Color - The color used for the above</LI>
<LI>Notify Check Interval - The number of seconds between checking the status
of people on your notify list (0 = do not check)</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="ss5.3">5.3 DCC</A>
 </H2>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Auto * - Automatically open the said window when a request/offer comes
in</LI>
</UL>
<H3>File Transfer </H3>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>DCC Offers Timeout - The number of seconds before a DCC offer is removed
(0 = disable)</LI>
<LI>DCC Stall Timeout - The number of seconds before a stalled connection is
dropped (0 = disable)</LI>
<LI>File permissions - The permissions (in octal) of files created by DCC (0600
is suggested)</LI>
<LI>Directory to save to - The directory in which DCC files are put</LI>
<LI>Save file with Nickname - Prepend the nickname of the sender to the name
of the DCC file</LI>
<LI>Fast DCC Send - When set DCC doesn't wait for ACK's before sending the
next packet</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="ss5.4">5.4 CTCP</A>
 </H2>

<P>
<UL>
<LI>Hide Version - When set VERSION requests are ignored</LI>
<LI>Sound Dir - The directory to look for sounds</LI>
<LI>Play Command - The command used to play sounds</LI>
</UL>
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