From 4463e9f5e3169d41a423982a35d9ca3cd4a9562c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?louiz=E2=80=99?= Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:05:36 +0200 Subject: Document the multi-nick session thing --- doc/biboumi.1.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/biboumi.1.rst') diff --git a/doc/biboumi.1.rst b/doc/biboumi.1.rst index b8bf794..6d4c35a 100644 --- a/doc/biboumi.1.rst +++ b/doc/biboumi.1.rst @@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ the same IRC connection is used. If, however, an other user wants to join an IRC channel on that same IRC server, biboumi opens a new connection to that server. Biboumi connects once to each IRC server, for each user on it. +Additionally, if one user is using more than one clients (with the same bare +JID), they can join the same IRC channel (on the same server) behind one +single nickname. Biboumi will forward all the messages (the channel ones and +the private ones) and the presences to all the resources behind that nick. +There is no need to have multiple nicknames and multiple connections to be +able to take part in a conversation (or idle) in a channel from a mobile client +while the desktop client is still connected, for example. + To cleanly shutdown the component, send a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal to it. It will send messages to all connected IRC and XMPP servers to indicate a reason why the users are being disconnected. Biboumi exits when the end of -- cgit v1.2.3