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## 5. Settings

## 5.1 Interface

- No Server List On Startup - When set the server is not shown on program startup
- Auto Save URL List - Save the URL list on exit
- 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.

### IRC Input/Output

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

### Window Layout

- Channel Mode Buttons - When set the mode buttons are displayed on the tool bar
- User List Buttons - When set the command buttons under the userlist are displayed
- New Tabs to Front - When set new tabs are set to be the visible tab
- Channel Tabs - When set new channels are displayed in tabs
- Private Message Tabs - When set private dialogs are displayed in tabs
- Tabs at bottom - When set the tabs are put at the bottom of the notebook
- 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
- Disable Paned Userlist - When this is set the userlist cannot be paned across to be made bigger and is of fixed size

### Mail Window

- Left and Top set the initial position of the XChat window
- Width and Height set the size of the XChat window

### Channel Windows & Dialog Windows

These two sections are the same except on what they effect

- Normal Font - The font used for normal text
- Bold Font - The font used for bold text
- Background Picture - An image used in the background of the text box
- Use ZVT - When set a ZVT (Zed Virtual Terminal, no connection to zed) widget is used not a GTK text box
- Transparent Background - (only with ZVT) When set the background of the ZVT is pseudo-transparent
- Tint Transparency - (only with above) When set the transparent background is tinted

### Panel

- Hide Session on Panelize - When set the tab/window is hidden when panelized
- Layout For a Vertical Panel - When set the panel buttons are packed top to bottom

## 5.2 IRC

- Raw Mode Display - When set modes are shown in raw IRC mode rather than descriptive texts
- Beep on Private Messages - When set the internal bell is sounded on a private message
- Quit Message - The text sent as a reason for you quitting
- DNS Lookup Program - The name of the program used to lookup IP's
- Auto ReConnect Delay - The number of seconds to wait before reconnecting to a server

### IP Address

- Autodetect hostname - When set the hostname is auto probed
- Autodetect IP address - When set the local IP is auto probed
- Hostname - If not auto probing this is the hostname
- IP address - If not auto probing this is the IP
- Get my IP from Server - (only if auto probing) Gets the IP address from the server

### Away

- Show away once - When set away messages are only seen once
- Announce away messages - When set your away message is broadcast
- Away Reason - The default away message given

### Highlighting

- Extra Words to Highlight on - Words other than your nickname that will trigger a highlight
- Hilighted Nick Color - The color set for highlighted nicks

### Logging

- Logging - When set logs are created in ~/.xchat/xchatlogs
- 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

### Notification

- Highlight Notifies - When set nicks in the userlist are set to a highlight color if they are on your notify list
- Notified User Color - The color used for the above
- Notify Check Interval - The number of seconds between checking the status of people on your notify list (0 = do not check)

## 5.3 DCC

- Auto * - Automatically open the said window when a request/offer comes in

### File Transfer

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

## 5.4 CTCP

- Hide Version - When set VERSION requests are ignored
- Sound Dir - The directory to look for sounds
- Play Command - The command used to play sounds

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