1 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
2 xmlns:e="http://projectmallrd.org/experimental/"
3 type="topic" style="task"
7 <link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#manage"/>
8 <desc>Join an IRC channel.</desc>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-07-26" status="draft"/>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review">
11 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
13 <credit type="author">
14 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
15 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
19 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
21 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
24 <title>Join an IRC chat room</title>
26 <p>You can join IRC chat rooms (also known as IRC channels) on any IRC network you’re
27 connected to. To connect to an IRC network, see <link xref="add-account"/> and
28 <link xref="account-irc"/>.</p>
33 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose
34 <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
39 From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the IRC account that
40 corresponds to the network you want to use.
45 In the <gui>Room</gui> text box, type the name of the channel you want to
46 join. IRC channel names start with the hash character (<sys>#</sys>).
51 Click <gui>Join</gui> to enter the room.
58 To join multiple rooms, you need to repeat the steps above for each room.