The K Desktop Environment

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5. The console

The console window is the first tab window of Knapster and is the initial window shown on startup of Knapster. It is divided into 2 sections.

  1. The output panel
  2. The command field

5.1 The output panel

The output panel has number of purposes that include:

5.2 The command field

The command field, situated at the bottom of the console window, allows the input of commands to knapster. Some of these commands are also available by the menus. Many of them are similar to those that would be used on a irc client.

All commands begin with a '/'.

The following commands are currently recognised:

/help display a list of the currently recognised commands

/clear clear the console

/msg [user] [message] send a message to a user

/ping [user] ping a user

/whois [user] get info about a user

/list list the available channels

/join [chan] join the channel

/part [chan] leave the channel

/chan [chan] [message] send a message to a specified channel

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