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# 6. X Window IRC Clients

## 6.1. Zircon

Maintainer: Lindsay F. Marshall

IRC Channel: None ?

Written in Tcl/Tk, uses the native network communications of Tcl.

You can get the latest version of Zircon from `ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/` . Homepage at `http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/`

## 6.2. KVIrc

Maintainer: Szymon Stefanek

IRC Channel: #KVIrc on freenode

Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.

You can get the latest version of KVIrc from `http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download` . Homepage at `http://www.kvirc.net/`

## 6.3. X-Chat

Maintainer: Peter Zelezny

IRC Channel: #Linux on ChatJunkies - `http://www.chatjunkies.org/servers.php`

Using GTK+ and optionally GNOME, supports Perl and Python scripting.

You can get the latest version of X-Chat from `http://xchat.org/download/` . Homepage at `http://xchat.org/`

## 6.4. QuIRC

Maintainer: Patrick Earl

IRC Channel: #QuIRC on DALnet - `http://www.dal.net/servers/index.php3`

Using Tk, supports Tcl for scripting.

You can get the latest version of QuIRC from his Homepage at `http://quirc.org/`

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