NAME
centerim - a text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris,
MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN,
Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal LiveJournal
client and RSS reader are also provided.
SYNOPSIS
centerim [ option ] ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the centerim command.
centerim is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.
Currently ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber
protocols are supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward
messages, URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for
users (including extended "whitepages search"), view users’ details,
maintain your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq
contacts), view the messages history, register a new UIN and update
your details, be informed on receiving email messages, automatically
set away after the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and
have your own ignore, visible and invisible lists. It can also
associate events with sounds, add events to the outgoing queue from
command line, define external event processing actions (like events
auto-forwarding or elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic
languages and allows to arrange contacts into groups.
OPTIONS
-a, --ascii
use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes
-h, --help
display command line usage
-v, --version
show the program version info
-b, --basedir <directory>
specify another base directory; useful for having several IM
identities under the same UNIX account
-B, --bind <hostname/ip>
tells centerim to use the specified IP address for outgoing
connections
-B, --no-xtitles
disable title changing in xterm or screen
-o, --offline
start with all protocols set offline
The following commands are used to put events to the outgoing queue
from the command line. If centerim is already running they’re to be
sent immediately, otherwise they will be sent as soon as you go on-
line.
-s, --send <event type>
This parameter specifies the type of event you want to send.
Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.
-p, --proto <protocol type>
This one specifies to which IM network the destination contact
belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg"
or "lj".
-t, --to <nickname or UIN>
With this one you specify nickname or UIN of the destination
contact. For icq it’s possible to specify 0 to send events to
yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be sent to
oneself though.
-n, --number <phone number>
Using this parameter you can send SMSes to any mobile numbers
through the ICQ network.
The message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell
to pass it. For example, you can say "hi" to me through the ICQ network
with the following command:
$ echo "hi" | centerim -s msg -p icq -t 17502151
In case you want to send an URL, the URL itself and its description are
separated with a newline character the following way:
$ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\nMy modest homepage." |
centerim -s url -p icq -t 17502151
Please note, that all three parameters are required in order to queue
an event.
Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:
$ echo "sms test" | centerim -s sms -n 1234567890
It’s also possible to change your current status on a particular IM
network with the following command line option.
-S, --status <status letter>
The argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status
is to be set: o (Online), _ (Offline), a (Away), d (Don’t
disturb), n (N/A), c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i
(Invisible)
-p or --proto <protocol name>
Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.
Examples:
$ centerim -S _ -p icq
This will set the icq status to offline. In other words, it’ll be
disconnected immediately.
$ centerim -S a -p yahoo
And this command will switch your yahoo status to away.
VERSION
centerim 4.22.1
BUG REPORT
Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/
AUTHOR
This page and centerim was originally written by Konstantin Klyagin.
Currently, several people are maintaining this software project.
WEB
http://www.centerim.org/
April 2, 2007 CENTERIM(1)