Let me put it straight right away; I didn’t get bx to work reliably on amd64 and I don’t have the necessary C knowledge nor enthusiasm to endulge myself in finding the problems. What I’ll outline here is just the...

BitchX: /alias xmms2 /exec -out echo \$(xmms2 info|grep title\\\|artist|sed -e "s/.* = //"|tr "\n" ";"|sed -e "s/\(.*\);\(.*\);/spielt \2 von \1 mit xmms2/") SILC: /alias xmms2 /exec - -out xmms2 info|grep -E artist\\|title|sed -e 's/^.* artist = / von /' -e...

Now I had /DETACHed my favourite IRC client BitchX http://www.bitchx.org/ like usual, and wanted to reattach. So I sat there at my ^A:screen scr-bx and I could watch a window popping up and vanishing again. Upon closer examination, it looked...