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libervia-tui - Libervia's console interface

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

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:

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

select the profile to use
display a help message and quit

In the sequel we use the following shortcuts:

  • C stands for Ctrl
  • M means Meta, on a PC it is usually the Alt key
  • S stands for Shift

quit Primitivus
[tab]
change focus
focus on the menu
focus on the roster or the chat window
focus on the edition line
display/hide the menu
show the next notification
hide/redisplay a pop-up window temporarily
hide/display the roster
refresh the screen

join a chat room
hide/display the list of participants
hide/display timestamps
use/don't use short nicks
hide/display frame decorations
change the room's topic appearance by switching between:
  • one single line (the topic is cut if it's too long)
  • the full topic
  • topic hidden

[home]
move the cursor at the beginning of the line
[end]
move the cursor at the end of the line
erase the line, starting at the cursor's position
erase the last word
invoke completion (dependent on the context)
browse sent messages history

hide/display offline contacts
hide/display contacts' status messages

select a card

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:
(free to chat)
(away from keyboard)
(do not disturb)
(extended away)
: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)

sat(1)

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).

2013-09-19 Salut à Toi 0.5