What is MCabber?
MCabber is a free, open-source, text-based multi-chat application for Linux, BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems. It is designed for efficient communication in chat rooms and group conversations across different chat protocols.
Some of the key features of MCabber include:
- Support for major chat protocols like XMPP/Jabber, IRC, Twitter, Telegram and more using libpurple chat library
- Tabbed interface to connect to multiple chat accounts and join various chat rooms
- Fully customizable appearance with different color schemes, fonts, layouts using text UI
- Chat logging for keeping histories of conversations which can be searched later
- Notifications and highlight support to alert on messages from specific users
- Built-in OTR encryption for secure chats
- Automated away messages and chat room moderation abilities
- Extensibility through Python, Perl, Shell and more scripting languages
MCabber focuses on being a lightweight, responsive and scriptable chat client for power users. With its active development community and plugin ecosystem, it offers a highly customizable platform for communicating across today's chat networks.
Pidgin, Coccinella, Empathy, IM+, Gajim, Psi+, climm, Beagle IM, CenterIM, Ayttm, naim, Tkabber, Profanity are some alternatives to MCabber.