Privflash

Here’s another small xchat hack I wrote to add missing functionality: privflash. It makes private messages behave the same as nick highlight you get in channels, ie., blue highlight + taskbar flash. Why it isn’t like that in default xchat I dunno, but finally I got annoyed enough to fix it. One day I’ll also add some sane nick availability notification, current “notify: <nick> is online” is completely laughable, but that’s later.

PS. The usual drill to install it: needs python plugin, drop it into ~/.xchat2/, it’ll get picked up next time you start xchat, or /py load privflash.py if you don’t want to wait. Enjoy.