---
name: "smuxi-frontend-stfl"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smuxi-frontend-stfl"
version: "1.0.6-1"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smuxi-frontend-stfl"
---

# smuxi-frontend-stfl(1)

terminal frontend for Smuxi chat client

## NAME

**smuxi-frontend-stfl** – terminal frontend for Smuxi chat client

## SYNOPSIS

**smuxi-frontend-stfl** \[**-dlh**\] \[**-e** *engine*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**smuxi-frontend-stfl** is a terminal frontend for the Smuxi chat client, powered by the STFL library. It can operate standalone or attached to a remote Smuxi engine.

The options are as follows:

- **-d**, **--debug**

  Turn on debugging. Debug logs are sent to *$XDG\_DATA\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-frontend-stfl.log* , and older logs are moved to the date of usage.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show the arguments Smuxi takes.

- **-l**, **--list-engines**

  List the available engines Smuxi can connect to.

- **-e** *engine*, **--engine**=*engine*

  Connect to a remote engine.

## KEY BINDINGS

The keyboards are similar to that of irssi and similar clients. Note that some terminal control characters (like C-c, C-z, etc) are not intercepted. Common line editing keys that work in graphical applications will also work. In the following examples, C-x means Control-x.

- Tab

  complete nickname

- PageUp

  move up the scrollback

- PageDown

  move down the scrollback

- C-p, C-PageUp

  previous window

- C-n, C-PageDown

  next window

- C-Left

  jump to the previous word

- C-Right

  jump to the next word

- C-w

  delete word

- C-c

  exit frontend

## SMUXI COMMANDS

Like most IRC clients, Smuxi uses commands prefixed with "/", and most use the same commands, also including its own set of commands for the client and engine. In the following examples, the "/" prefix is not included.

- exit

  Exit the Smuxi frontend gracefully.

- window close

  Closes the current window.

- window *number*

  Goes to the window with that number.

- connect *protocol* *protocol-parameters*

  Connects to the server with the given protocol.

- connect *network*

  Connects to the preset network.

- disconnect *server*

  Disconnects from server. If no parameter is passed, then the server associated with the current window will be disconnected.

- config list

  Lists the configuration options.

- config get *key*

  Get the configuration key's value.

- config set *key*=*value*

  Set the configuration key's value.

- shutdown

  Shuts down the current engine.

## FILES

- *$XDG\_DATA\_HOME/smuxi/share/smuxi-frontend-stfl.log*

  smuxi debug log

- *$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-engine.ini*

  smuxi local engine config

- *$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-frontend.ini*

  smuxi frontend configuration and remote engine list

## SEE ALSO

[smuxi-frontend-gnome(1)](/smuxi-frontend-gnome/1.md), [smuxi-server(1)](/smuxi-server/1.md), [smuxi-message-buffer(1)](/smuxi-message-buffer/1.md)

Website: https://smuxi.im/

## AUTHOR/CREDITS

Smuxi, including this frontend, was written by Mirco Bauer. Contributions to this frontend were also made by Ondřej Hošek and Andrius Bentkus.

This manpage was written by Calvin Buckley.