profanity-privacy(1)

profanity-privacy1

Usage

/privacy logging on|redact|off

/privacy os on|off

Overview

Configure privacy settings. Also check the the following settings in /account: clientid to set the client identification name session_alarm to configure an alarm when more clients log in.

Arguments

logging on|redact|off

Switch chat logging. This will also disable logging in the internally used SQL database. Your messages will not be saved anywhere locally. This might have unintended consequences, such as not being able to decrypt OMEMO encrypted messages received later via MAM, and should be used with caution.

os on|off

Choose whether to include the OS name if a user asks for software information (XEP-0092).

Examples

/privacy logging off

/privacy os off

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.