Tips & Tricks

Contents

1. Keyboard Shortcuts
2. Command Line Options
3. Command Variables
4. GSettings
   1. Turning of the dark theme variant
   2. Changing the IP and hostname used to check your internet connectivity
   3. Setting a Dynamic Nickname
   4. Customizing the Network List

Keyboard Shortcuts

Command Line Options

Usage: haguichi [options]

Command Variables

GSettings

Haguichi stores your preferences (nickname, commands, etc) using GSettings. Most values can be controlled from the preferences dialog or other user interface elements. However, there are some advanced values that can only be changed using dconf Editor or via gsettings command.

Turning of the dark theme variant

If you are like Linus Torvalds (or if you are the one and only Linus Torvalds himself) and don’t like the dark theme variant, you can turn it of by unchecking prefer-dark-theme. Or via command line:
gsettings set com.github.ztefn.haguichi.ui prefer-dark-theme false

Changing the IP and hostname used to check your internet connectivity

Affraid of Google following your each and every virtual footstep? Living behind the great firewall of China? Know a faster (yet reliable) server to ping? No problem, changing these addresses is easier than ever!

For example, to change the default IP value of 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) to 208.67.222.222 (OpenDNS):
gsettings set com.github.ztefn.haguichi.config check-internet-ip 208.67.222.222

For example, to change the default hostname value of www.google.com to www.amazon.com:
gsettings set com.github.ztefn.haguichi.config check-internet-hostname www.amazon.com

Keep in mind that Haguichi checks internet connectivity by pinging the IP first. Only in case this fails, it will try to resolve the hostname.

Setting a Dynamic Nickname

The nickname Haguichi gives to the client can be set to a dynamic environment variable. In fact the default value is one, namely your username. These variables can be used within the “Change Nick” dialog too. But let’s keep focus on GSettings. Here’s an example to set the nickname to your real name:
gsettings set com.github.ztefn.haguichi.config nickname %REALNAME

All available variables are:

Customizing the Network List

The possibilities on how to display the members in your network list are endless, because it’s template based. There are four lightstemplates (member-template-large, member-template-small, network-template-large and network-template-small). For markup you can use Pango (HTML like) syntax and for linebreaks simply use <br>. All available variables are:

Network

Member