Hello Craig, On 10/31/18, Craig Sanders via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Anyone know of a decent local-LAN chat program?
I have been watching the various responses, and it looks "challenging", which is not what you want. What happens if you each have logins on the boxes the other is using and use the older Unix wall command. But then, will that get through with a GUI? Suggesting very basic, and very simple. Another thought, if you already have an internal web server, can it push items out to your partner? The one trouble would be notification, but you may know ways around that. Getting what you want working will take more than a little implementation, but like all good sysadmin efforts, will provide ongoing ease of function when done right. Regards, Mark Trickett
I've tried the Bonjour (i.e. avahi) module for pidin but it's just unreliable.
I don't know whether it's pidgin that's the problem or whether it's because avahi is more half-arsed Poettering garbage, but I've spent hours fucking around with it on multiple occasions, think i've got it working OK, and then the next time either I or my partner try to use it to send notes to each other, it just doesn't fucking work.
I suspect, but am not sure, that either pidgin or avahi gets confused because all machines on my LAN have multiple addresses on different subnets - this is too useful for VMs and docker images and other stuff to even consider changing just for a chat program.
If I had to, I could set up an irc or xmpp server or something but that seems like overkill for this.
So, can anyone recommend a no-frills, no-fuss LAN chat that just works? Even tips on making pidgin + bonjour work reliably would be great.
Preferably something better than the ancient ytalk.
craig
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