tklx/weechat - The extensible chat client

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client.

Features

• Based on the super slim tklx/base (Debian GNU/Linux).
• Uses tini for zombie reaping and signal forwarding.
• Configured with UTF-8 locale.
• Includes weechat, weechat-plugins and weechat-scripts.
• Includes off-the-record support (privacy).
• Includes inwee and useful snippets (convenience).
• Includes USER user to restrict the privileges of weechat.
• Includes EXPOSE 9001 for optional relay configuration.

Usage

docker pull tklx/weechat

# non-persistent
docker run --rm -it -e TERM tklx/weechat

# non-persistent, applying all snippets
docker run --rm -it -e TERM tklx/weechat -r "/exec snippets/.inwee-all"

# persistent settings, configuration, chat logs, etc.
mkdir -p ~/.weechat
docker run --rm -it -e TERM -v ~/.weechat:/home/user/.weechat tklx/weechat

# weechat options
docker run --rm -it tklx/weechat --help

# interactive root terminal
docker run --rm -it -u root tklx/weechat /bin/bash

Configuration

/exec inwee snippets/freenode
/exec inwee snippets/otr
/exec inwee snippets/colors
/exec inwee snippets/unicode

Chatting on freenode

# set your identity
/set irc.server.freenode.nicks <nick>
/set irc.server.freenode.username <username>
/set irc.server.freenode.realname "Your Name"

# optional: if you would like to register your nick/username
/connect freenode
/msg NickServ REGISTER <password> <email>
/msg NickServ VERIFY REGISTER <username> <verificationcode-from-email>
/disconnect

# optional: setup authentication if you have a registered nick/username
/set irc.server.freenode.sasl_username <username>
/set irc.server.freenode.sasl_password <password>

# optional: autoconnect to freenode
/set irc.server.freenode.autoconnect on

# connect to freenode and join a channel
/connect freenode
/join #channel-name

Using Off-The-Record

# start a private conversion (without encryption)
/query <nick>

# in the private chat buffer, start the encrypted session
/otr start

# for more information
/help otr

Send commands and messages from host to weechat in container

# set an environment variable for convenience
# in this example the container was started with "--name weechat"
inwee="docker exec -i -u user weechat inwee -d /dev/stdin"

# send a command
echo "/help" | $inwee

# send commands from a file
# e.g., you're using a non-persistent container and want to authenticate
cat freenode.creds | $inwee

# send a message to a specific buffer
# e.g., you need to share your audio device details to get help
lspci | grep -i audio | $inwee -b 'irc.freenode.#audiohelp'

Relay configuration / glowing bear (web UI)

Security notice:

• This sets up a non-encrypted relay.
• Access to the relay provides OS execution privileges!
• Use only for testing, and only on localhost.

# configure the relay and password
/relay add weechat 9001
/set relay.network.password <secretrelaypassword>

# get the container's IP address
$ docker ps
$ docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' CONTAINER-ID

# browse to http://glowing-bear.org and connect

Automated builds

The Docker image is built, and pushed by CircleCI from source hosted on GitHub.

• Tag: x.y.z refers to a release (recommended).
• Tag: latest refers to the master branch.

Issue Tracker

TKLX uses a central issue tracker on GitHub for reporting and tracking of bugs, issues and feature requests.