alicqrc (5)

alicq condfiguration file is used to customize alicq during startup. Any configuration file can be specified with -config option when running alicq. If -config option is not given, default configuration file is searched depending on current platgorm:

Unix

~/.alicq/alicqrc - primary configuration
~/.alicqrc - for backward compatibility

Windows

%USERPROFILE/alicq/alicq.cfg
workingdir/alicq/alicq.cfg - where workingdir is a folder with alicq run file.

III. File Format

Alicq startup file is just a Tcl script, which is sourced by main program. It looks like configuration file, but it is possible to use any Tcl command in it. For example, if you want to keep ICQ password in other file, you may write something like:

	source ~/.alicq/password

where ~/.alicq/password contains string

icq password mypassword

icq password [eval_password_by_any_way]

Common startup file usually contains following entities:

calls of module loading commands
calls of module configuration commands
resources specifications
arbitrary Tcl code user wants to evaluate in Alicq interpreter on startup

Module loading command has following syntax: module module-name

	module tree

Alicq looks for modules through a list of catalogues:

basedir/modules - where basedir is a directory where current configuration file is read from.
workingdir/modules - where workingdir is a directory where alicq run file is read from.
workingdir/../share/alicq/modules - where workingdir is a directory where alicq run file is read from.

IV. Module Configuration Commands

Each module can have number of configurable parameters. These parameters can be specified in configuration file using following syntax:

module-name configurable-parameter value

For example:

	icq uin 47298730
	icq roster use 1
	tree hide empty no
	tree hide offline yes

List of supported configurable parameters can be retrieved with command

alicq -info [ module-name ]

Note, that module module-name should be loaded with module command in configuration file.

V. Files

$HOME/.alicq/alicqrc - Default startup file for Unix version of Alicq.
$HOME/.alicqrc - Startup file of older versions of Alicq. Used for backward compatibility.

VI. See Also

alicq (1)

Alicq home page

VII. Authors

Alicq was written by Ihar Viarheichyk.

This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko, based on Alicq README and slightly reworked by Vitus Wagner and Ihar Viarheichyk.

This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.