muellerlukas / lima-gold

The best console based MUC Jabber client ever, with stealth MUC messages!

Lima Gold

This client was created for the Lima Gold members. It supports regular Jabber MUC conversations as well as a custom encryption and "stealth" messages, which are invisible for regular clients.

System Requirements

• SleekXMPP
• pycrypto
• readline
• a terminal with support for ANSI escape sequences to get all the beautiful colors

Configuration

Have a look at the xmpp.cfg.sample.

The lima gold client will look for a file called /etc/limagold.cfg, ~/.limagoldrc, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/limagold.conf or ./xmpp.cfg. If more than one such file exists, it will load them in the given order and override the settings accordingly. This allows a hierarchical configuration. Additionally, the configuration can be overridden with CLI parameters.

If no password is set in the configuration file, the client will ask interactively. If no key is set, it will work without one, but then it cannot send or decode encrypted messages.

Technology

This client can send encrypted messages and completely invisible messages. For encrypted messages, the content is embedded in an attribute in a HTML tag. Invisible messages use a custom <message> stanza without a body which is is relayed by the server but ignored by any regular client. Those invisible messages also do not appear in the server history, which a client can request.

Archlinux-Package

To install lima-gold as a package on Archlinux, run makepkg and install the package. You will have to create a config file in a well-known location and configure the logfile config option to an absolute path.