.TH man 1 "2021-01-09" "0.10.0" "Profanity XMPP client" .SH NAME Profanity \- a simple console based XMPP chat client. .SH SYNOPSIS .B profanity [\-vh] [\-l level] [\-a account] .SH DESCRIPTION .B Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. Its emphasis is on having a simple and configurable command driven UI, see the homepage at: .br .PP <https://profanity-im.github.io> .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI "\-v, \-\-version" Show version and build information. .TP .BI "\-h, \-\-help" Show help on command line arguments. .TP .BI "\-a, \-\-account "ACCOUNT Auto connect to an account on startup, .I ACCOUNT must be an existing account. .TP .BI "\-c, \-\-config" Use an alternative config file. .TP .BI "\-l, \-\-log "LEVEL Set the logging level, .I LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR. .TP .BI "\-f, \-\-logfile" Specify a different logfile .TP .BI "\-t, \-\-theme "THEME Specify which theme to use. .I THEME must be one of the themes installed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/themes .SH USING PROFANITY The user guide can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html>. .SH SEE ALSO .B Profanity itself has a lot of built\-in help. Check the /help command for more information. Type "/help help" for information on how to use help itself. Profanity ships with one man page for each built-in command. For /account there is man profanity-account. .SH CONFIGURATION Configuration for .B Profanity is stored in .I $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on commands for configuring Profanity can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/reference.html>. .SH BUGS Bugs can either be reported by raising an issue at the Github issue tracker: .br .PP <https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues> .br .PP or to the mailing list at: .br .PP <https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity> .br .SH LICENSE Copyright (C) 2012 \- 2019 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>. Copyright (C) 2019 \- 2020 Michael Vetter <jubalh@iodoru.com>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. .SH AUTHORS/CREDITS .B Profanity was created by James Booth .B <boothj5web@gmail.com> with many contributions from others, see the full list at: <https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/graphs/contributors>