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# 5. X Window IRC Clients

## 5.1. Zircon

Maintainer: Lindsay F. Marshall (`<Lindsay.Marshall @ ncl.ac.uk>`)

IRC Channel: None ?

Written in Tcl/Tk, uses the native network communications of Tcl.

You can get the latest version of Zircon from ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/. Homepage at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/.

## 5.2. KVIrc

Maintainer: Szymon Stefanek (`<stefanek @ tin.it>`)

IRC Channel: #KVIrc on freenode

Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.

You can get the latest version of KVIrc from http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download. Homepage at http://www.kvirc.net/.

## 5.3. X-Chat

Maintainer: Peter Zelezny (`<zed @ linux.com>`)

IRC Channel: #Linux on ChatJunkies

Using GTK+ and optionally GNOME, supports Perl and Python scripting.

You can get the latest version of X-Chat from http://xchat.org/download.html. Homepage at http://xchat.org/.

## 5.4. QuIRC

Maintainer: Patrick Earl (`<quirc @ patearl.net>`)

IRC Channel: #QuIRC on DALnet

Using Tk, supports Tcl for scripting.

You can get the latest version of QuIRC from his Homepage at http://quirc.org/.

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