Matrix Client recommendation?

[mro]

which matrix client can you recommend?

 

[GoNeFast_01]

Element aka Riot Chat is there anything else???

 

[Cath O'Deray]

<https://wiki.freebsd.org/Matrix#Clients>

Element X is dramatically faster.

 

[mro]

anything local, non-web, $ pkg install preferred?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

anything local, non-web, $ pkg install preferred?

The wiki page includes a link to More clients. You'll not find FreeBSD-oriented links, but you will find information that should help you to rule out certain clients.

For availability for FreeBSD, FreshPorts is our friend. Searches such as <https://www.freshports.org/search.p...own=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>.

 

[mro]

If you would be so kind to re-read the initial post - it was asked for your recommendation. Not rabbit-holes.

 

[dclau]

With apologies, he recommended the wiki and FreshPorts. Where's the rabbit? Where are the holes?

 

[bakul]

There is https://github.com/tulir/gomuks terminal mode matrix client, which can be made to build on FreeBSD with a little bit of work (probably easiest if you cross build it for freebsd on a linux host). Just FYI. I haven't used it!

 

[Cath O'Deray]

your recommendation

If you're reluctant to use a web browser, then:

1. install Electron (devel/electron26, or devel/electron25 if you prefer version 25 and packaging)
2. use Electron to run what's provided by Element.

What's provided does excel, it's my recommendation.

I use GKrellM as the launcher. YMMV.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Not rabbit-holes.

The shot below is taken on FreeBSD, with neither of these checkboxes checked:

☐ Show apps not available on my platform
☐ Show experimental apps

I have used a few of the suggested clients, but not frequently (or recently) enough to recommend an alternative to Element.

At this time, I can not recommend Thunderbird, partly because (for me) it hangs for hours. A very obscure bug (I doubt that anyone else will encounter it).

I have used Thunderbird for Matrix, but not recently.

HTH

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[msplsh]

A very obscure bug (I doubt that anyone else will encounter it).

Have you tried bisecting your profile file against the default until the bug goes away?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

msplsh yes <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1856513#c8>, I shouldn't hijack this topic, are you a Matrix user?

 

[mro]

So no 1st hand experience with ready to use (single-step installable) clients so far.

No shortage of pointers, recipies, research opportunities and mobile apps, however.

P.S. e.g. https://www.freshports.org/net-im/fractal, https://www.freshports.org/net-im/nheko/ (needs a wallet?) and https://www.freshports.org/net-im/quaternion crash, https://www.freshports.org/www/element-web/ and https://www.freshports.org/www/cinny/ depend on a webserver(?).

 

[Cath O'Deray]

So no 1st hand experience with ready to use (single-step installable) clients so far.

I have used a few of the suggested clients, but not frequently (or recently) enough to recommend an alternative to Element.

To clarify: those were first-hand uses, by me.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

https://www.freshports.org/net-im/quaternion crash,

Did you use it, or is there a bug report?

 

[mro]

I launched it but it didn't show me a legible screen.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

I launched it but it didn't show me a legible screen.

I had much the same: rows of buttons instead of messages.

After the status bar ceased indicating activity: I sought the general room, it was missing.

I clicked a Thunderbird room (can't recall the exact name), the application crashed.

Please find, or make, a bug report. Thanks.

 

[astyle]

So no 1st hand experience with ready to use (single-step installable) clients so far.

No shortage of pointers, recipies, research opportunities and mobile apps, however.

P.S. e.g. https://www.freshports.org/net-im/fractal, https://www.freshports.org/net-im/nheko/ (needs a wallet?) and https://www.freshports.org/net-im/quaternion crash, https://www.freshports.org/www/element-web/ and https://www.freshports.org/www/cinny/ depend on a webserver(?).

Y'know, FreeBSD is largely a DIY thing... Freshports is a listing of stuff that is known to work on FreeBSD, but if you learn to work with it, and extract info, it can do more than just list software...

And - pkg install is not limited to local on-disk repos - in fact it works with remote repos as well.

 

[mro]

Lecturing is OT.

Y'know, FreeBSD is largely a DIY thing... Freshports is a listing of stuff that is known to work on FreeBSD, but if you learn to work with it, and extract info, it can do more than just list software...

And - pkg install is not limited to local on-disk repos - in fact it works with remote repos as well

 

[mro]

I had much the same: rows of buttons instead of messages.

After the status bar ceased indicating activity: I sought the general room, it was missing.

I clicked a Thunderbird room (can't recall the exact name), the application crashed.

Please find, or make, a bug report. Thanks.

no thanks for such a recommendation. Or was it none? Off-Topic then.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Also off-topic, if you like: please neither find, nor make, a bug report. Thanks, if you imagine that all users of the application will benefit from not informing the maintainer.

You're welcome.

 

[mro]

This thread has become so ugly, I regret having asked in the first place.

 

[smithi]

This thread has become so ugly, I regret having asked in the first place.

If you'd refrain from smiting those trying to be helpful - to you and to the project - you may have less cause for regret.

 

[sidetone]

I use psearch on the command line, so psearch -c net-im matrix. Freshports also works, for when you're not on FreeBSD, like on a mobile phone, though, psearch(1) is better. If a deeper search is needed, use a combination with the -s argument, although the s option is better and faster when used with categories. Another category which is often relevant is net, as that also has other components of messaging apps, sometimes servers.

I don't see a problem with listing Freshports, except the way it was written was a little tedious. Everything you need about FreeBSD, and everything relevant about programs can be found with psearch, even with more precise command line arguments. Psearch is the best way to find programs, and Freshports comes after that.

I think listing wikis isn't helpful, unless it's specific to FreeBSD (maybe to any another BSD) and to something specific someone actually takes initiative to want to port or use on FreeBSD. Wikis could be listed all day long, and unless it's specific, they're irrelevant.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

I regret having asked in the first place.

You sought first-hand experience with installable clients.

You gained my first-hand knowledge of an installation of Thunderbird.

You shared your first-hand experience with an installation of Quaternion.

I shared my first-hand experience with an installation of Quaternion. I recall you describing this as off-topic (XenForo seems to not show when comments have been edited). It's difficult to know what you want.