What is IRC?

#manjaro IRC is a place to provide additional direct support to Manjaro users.

You can access it from the Community tab at Manjaro.org or by using an IRC client like Weechat, Hexchat or Quassel to connect to the #manjaro channel on irc.freenode.net.

It's not a replacement for the forum, but supplements it with direct community support. Sometimes it is quiet and sometimes busy, but we will try to help.

Also, sometimes the reason it is busy is that the conversation has gone off-topic!

For further issues that can't be solved on IRC there is always the Forum.

How do I use Manjaro IRC?

When you connect by manjaro.org (main site). You come intoo an Menu. You set there your nick name for IRC. under that line you see on which channels you are connected. You see: #manjaro and #manjaro-talk (off-topic).

Normally you going to log intoo manjaro irc on two channels.

When you are logged in, intoo the standard IRC client you have an name like Manjarouser. you can change temporarely your nick with :

/nick [your nickname]

For example, to set your nick as "John", you would enter the following:

/nick John

The only rule of the IRC Channel is to be friendly. Just be your friendly self, and you'll find a lot of other friendly people to socialize with and receive support from.

Asking questions on IRC

Ask the question. You don't need to ask for permission to ask, or to find out if anyone is willing to answer the question.
Make sure you have time to wait for an answer(10 minutes is a bare minimum). If you don't get an answer, it's likely people don't know, are in the middle of writing one or didn't notice your question.
Try to be concise with your question.
Even if you see a lot of people listed on the channel, this doesn't mean that they are actually present.
When sending reports on tekst please use an Pastebin service like pastebin.com

How to Register a User Name

0. Choose a user name or nick.

The user name should consist only of the letters from A-Z, the numbers from 0-9 and certain symbols such as "_" and "-". It may have a maximum of 16 characters. To do so, enter the following command into the text field, where you would normally enter comments:

/nick [your nickname]

1. Register your nick / user name.

Type the following command and replace "your_password" with a password that will be easy to remember, and replace "your_email_address" with your email address.

/msg nickserv register your_password your_email_address

2. Check your e-mail and verify your account.

After you register, you will not be able to identify to NickServ until you have verified your registration. To do this, check your email for an account verification code.

3. Type the command that Freenode asks you to type.

Press the Enter key to fully confirm.

Secure your nick name

Its possible someone using your nick.

please set :

 /msg NickServ SET ENFORCE ON

Then no one can abuse your nick directly Make sure your client got configure right

you can always do manually with :

 /msg NickServ IDENTIFY account password

For further info see [1]

Trolling

IRC is a very know chat protocol frequently used by trolls, if you encounter a troll please notice a moderator. In case the troll is sending you private messages, you can set +Rg on your nick, so only registered users can chat with you privately. If you wish to set this mode, it can be done with:

   /mode (yournick) +Rg

stops messages from troll that is unregistred. so, no users that is unregistred can harm you.

If the troll is registered, you can ignore the troll with the command:

do also : /ns info (troll-nick) to get information over the registred name.

 /ignore (trol-nick-registred name)

Configuring an IRC client

With pidgin hexchat and konversation you can a good go to irc.

Please see the following on how to configure for your client for Sasl: [2]

Manjaro IRC is multilingual

It is always a good idea to look for IRC channels in your region too.

manjaro = Main IRC channels
manjaro-de = German IRC Channel
manjaro-es = Spanish
manjaro-nl = Dutch / belgium users
manjaro-fr = French users
linuxpark = Turkish IRC channel
manjaro-ru = Russian
manjaro-br = Brasil irc Channel
manjaro-talk = Manjaro off-topic channel, is optional in use.
manjaro-openrc = OpenRC support Manjaro
1. manjaro-it = Manjaro italian channel
manjaro-fi = Manjaro Finland channel

Please support those channels !

Support

Following is a link to this page's forum counterpart where you can post any related feedback: [3]

irc support guidelines = will help if you wanna support other people or possible by your self !