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Quickly check if people are talking to you in Opera IRC

Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:55:44 AM

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Opera automatically highlights text when other people say your IRC username, to tell you to pay attention. But if you are away for a while you have to scroll up and check. You can use CSS to summarise how many times people have said your name so that you can quickly see if you missed something.

The following will display a counter at the top right corner of the chat window showing how many times people have said your username.

  1. Copy C:\Program Files\Opera\styles\im.css in Windows or /usr/share/opera/styles/im.css in Linux to profile\styles directory. This is to avoid overwriting during update and to make backup easy.
  2. Add the following CSS code to the bottom of copied file and save. 
    .highlight {
    counter-increment: personals;
}

.highlight:after {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0px; right: 0px;
    content: "Your name has been mentioned "counter(personals)" times";
    border: 1px dotted #552;
    padding: 1px;
    background-color: #ffffe1;
    width: 25em;
}
  3. Specify path to IM Style File and save.
  4. Restart Opera.

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Comments

random414 Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:24:40 AM

cool

LéazzBabyJay99 Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:43:41 AM

idea cool monkey banana

KimberlySqueakeyCat Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:11:07 PM

love that little writer in the "comment" box, Tamil...and how do i get Opera IRC? i never seen the download for it

Angelikiellinidata Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:56:47 PM

very cool Tamil,
now you will know by 1,000 % not just 100% that you are loved! heart

mistressEVILmissevilat Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:06:31 PM

I don't see Tamil anymore... he's never in left
awww

lamarca lamarca Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:03:00 PM

hi!

nice tip.
just a question: does it works on linux?

WOFall Monday, August 24, 2009 11:07:49 AM

Great tip Tamil up And ai gots quoteth bigsmile

Originally posted by SqueakeyCat:

how do i get Opera IRC? i never seen the download for it


It's part of Opera wink You can go to Tools -> Mail and Chat Accounts, or just visit an IRC link : irc://irc.opera.com/lounge

Originally posted by lamarca:

just a question: does it works on linux?


I'd pretty confidently say yes, although I haven't tested it... wink

Originally posted by missevilat:

I don't see Tamil anymore... he's never in left awww


cry

KimberlySqueakeyCat Monday, August 24, 2009 12:06:52 PM

ty WOlf, but how do i get back there once i close out my browser?

WOFall Monday, August 24, 2009 12:40:21 PM

The chat panel is the easiest way. You can open panels with F4, and the chat panel is the one with the speech-bubble. wink

KimberlySqueakeyCat Monday, August 24, 2009 5:30:36 PM

i tried to open the chat room just now, and i had to totally log out and then re-log in again, to get the room to actually open...i tried to enter the way i was told to, from people in the room earlier, and it wouldn't work...so....how do i save the page for me to be able to enter again without difficulty

Tamil Monday, August 24, 2009 6:09:21 PM

@BabyJay99: happy

@ellinidata: bigeyes

@lamarca: See WOFall reply.

@missevilat: I don't use IRC often.

@WOFall: yes

Originally posted by SqueakeyCat:

how do i save the page for me to be able to enter again without difficulty

Tools > Mail and Chat Accounts... > [Select an IRC account] > Edit... > Outgoing > Perform commands when connected > 
/msg NickServ IDENTIFY password
/join #opera
/join #myopera
Remove first line if you don't have an account and replace password with your IRC password if you have account.

Angelikiellinidata Monday, August 24, 2009 6:22:24 PM

I will change the bigeyes to love and I am not saying your name p you know who you are lol

Tamil Monday, August 24, 2009 6:28:41 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

KimberlySqueakeyCat Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:26:46 PM

thank you, Tamil...changed it, and will see how it works

Charles SchlossChas4 Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:22:17 AM

cool

KarenNerak Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:55:41 AM

Awesome, Tamil! Thank you for posting this! yes

banana

Tamil Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:57:19 AM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Drool.gif -

KarenNerak Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:24:54 AM

lol

Tamil, I think you should get a banana hanger thing like this one!:


Isn't it cute?! o banana

ersi Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:54:17 AM

About IRC password, there is also a password box under Tools > Mail and Chat Accounts... > [Select an IRC account] > Edit... > Servers

Tamil Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:46:56 AM

Originally posted by Nerak:

Isn't it cute?!

yes

KarenNerak Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:29:11 AM

I thought you'd think so! bigsmile

Alice adamsHassties Saturday, September 5, 2009 12:48:26 PM

i think i like u all

Alice adamsHassties Saturday, September 5, 2009 12:49:08 PM

is amy body there?

Ankuryadavankur Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:48:12 PM

Is it possible to flash the irc tab when someone types your name?

Tamil Friday, October 30, 2009 12:43:53 AM

Nope.

Angelikiellinidata Friday, October 30, 2009 2:08:13 AM

you do realize that you are the "gossip killer" ,no? p heart

Tamil Friday, October 30, 2009 2:32:56 AM

no

Angelikiellinidata Friday, October 30, 2009 2:33:58 AM

hahahahaha it is a fact! Love ya! heart

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, October 30, 2009 2:46:06 AM

banana

Originally posted by yadavankur:

flash the irc tab when someone types your name


might be an interesting add to Opera

Ankuryadavankur Friday, October 30, 2009 10:52:25 PM

http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/faq/#activity this would be nice (if it were configurable).

Doug Youngdougyoung Friday, May 7, 2010 1:39:33 AM

Any idea if you can adjust this to a list of keywords? Like if I were named "Doug" I could include "Douglas, Doug, Douggie" etc.?

Tamil Friday, May 7, 2010 1:44:08 AM

Nope.

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