NAME¶

primitivus - Salut à Toi's console interface

SYNOPSIS¶

primitivus [ --profile=PROFILE | --help ]

DESCRIPTION¶

Primitivus is Salut à Toi's console interface, based on Urwid. Primitivus is modal (vi-like), one can switch from one mode to another in the same way as in vi/vim:

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From any mode, press [Esc] to switch to normal mode.

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From normal mode, press : to switch to command mode.

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From normal mode, press i to switch to insert mode — the one you use to write messages to your contacts.

Primitivus can be handled either with the mouse, in a very intuitive way, or with the keyboard. The keyboard shortcuts are explained in the section KEYBOARD HANDLING.

OPTIONS¶

--profile=PROFILE

-p PROFILE select the profile to use

--help

-h display a help message and quit

KEYBOARD HANDLING¶

In the sequel we use the following shortcuts:

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C stands for Ctrl

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M means Meta, on a PC it is usually the Alt key

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S stands for Shift

Main keys¶

C-x

quit Primitivus

[tab]

C-up/down arrow change focus

C-f 1

C-f m focus on the menu

C-f 2

C-f b focus on the roster or the chat window

C-f 3

C-f e focus on the edition line

M-m

display/hide the menu

C-n

show the next notification

C-s

hide/redisplay a pop-up window temporarily

F2

hide/display the roster

C-l

refresh the screen

Chat rooms¶

M-j

join a chat room

M-p

hide/display the list of participants

M-t

hide/display timestamps

M-n

use/don't use short nicks

M-l

hide/display frame decorations

M-s

change the room's topic appearance by switching between:

Edition line¶

C-a

[home] move the cursor at the beginning of the line

C-e

[end] move the cursor at the end of the line

C-k

erase the line, starting at the cursor's position

C-w

erase the last word

S-[tab]

invoke completion (dependent on the context)

up/down arrows

browse sent messages history

Contacts¶

M-d

hide/display offline contacts

M-s

hide/display contacts' status messages

Card game¶

space

select a card

COMMANDS¶

The following commands must be typed in command mode (type [Esc] to switch to normal mode, then the : at the beginning of the command will switch to command mode).

:quit

quit Primitivus

:messages

display log messages (see also the SAT_LOG_LEVEL environment variable in sat(1))

:presence [status]

set your presence status. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to choose your presence status; otherwise, you can use the following arguments:

:status [message]

set your status message. Invoked without argument, a pop-up will allow you to enter a message.

:history

set the number of lines of history to display in the chat window ( :history 0 to clear the window)

SEE ALSO¶

sat(1)

AUTHORS AND COPYING¶

Salut à Toi was written by Jérôme Poisson <goffi@goffi.org>. This man page was converted from the help message and Salut à Toi's wiki by Matteo Cypriani <mcy@lm7.fr> for the Debian distribution (2013). It is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA 3.0).