=head1 NAME

circle-fe-gtk - GTK 2 frontend for the Circle IRC client

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<circle-fe-gtk> I<url>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<Circle> is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local
client and the common screen+irssi recipe:

=over

=item * Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing
disconnections from local UI.

=item * Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of
incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.

=back

Circle uses L<Tangence> for its underlying communications layer.

B<circle-fe-gtk> is a GTK 2 user interface for B<Circle>. It needs
B<circle-be> to be installed on the same or a different machine
in order to be useful.

The B<circle-fe-gtk> command accepts a single argument, a URL to the B<Circle>
backend socket.

The URL should be one of the following:

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=item * B<tcp://I<host>:I<port>>

Connect to I<host>:I<port> over TCP.

=item * B<exec:///I<path>?I<arguments>>

Execute command I<path> with I<arguments>.

=item * B<unix:///I<path>>

Connect to a UNIX socket I<path>.

=item * B<sshexec://I<host>/I<path>>

Execute command I<path> with I<arguments> on a remote I<host> over SSH.

=item * B<sshunix://I<host>/I<path>>

Connect to a UNIX socket I<path> on a remote I<host> over SSH.

=back

=head1 ENVIRONMENT

=over

=item I<DISPLAY>

X11 display to connect to.

=back

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<circle-be(1)>, L<Circle(3pm)>

=head1 AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Andrej Shadura L<< <andrewsh@debian.org> >> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

The author of Circle is Paul Evans L<< <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> >>
