PSI(1)
π¦ PSI β bestie edition
okay so. you know how you needed a manual for Psi, the jabber client? no? well you do now, and honestly? it's giving iconic. it's a manual page, it's PSI(1), it's from the User Commands section, and it's here to make your terminal life cute. let's go π
β¨ NAME β¨
Psi β jabber client π«Ά
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
psi [--profile=PROFILE] [--remote|--choose-profile]
[--status=STATUS [--status-message=MSG]] [--uri=URI]
π DESCRIPTION π
Psi β The Cross-Platform Jabber/XMPP Client For Power Users β¨
like yes, that's literally the whole description. it said what it said. main character energy only. π
π OPTIONS π
--choose-profileβ pops up the Choose Profile dialog the second you start up. πͺ cannot be used together with--remote, so pick a lane bestie.-h,--helpβ shows this help message and dips. no notes. π--profile=PROFILEβ activates the program instance that's running the profile you named. if there isn't one? it just opens a brand new instance using that profile instead (unless you also threw--remotein there, which changes the vibe). β¨--remoteβ forces remote-control mode, no cap. if there's no running instance, or you specified--profilebut nothing is using it, it exits without doing anything at all. πͺ cannot be used with--choose-profile. periodt.--status=STATUSβ sets your status. and STATUS has to be one of exactly these:online,chat,away,xa,dnd,offline. that's the whole list, don't freestyle it. π¦--status-message=MSGβ sets your status message. must be used together with--status, they're a package deal fr fr. π--uri=URIβ opens an XMPP URI, likexmpp:someone@example.org?chat. π but listen β for security reasons, this one has to be the last option. like, the literal last thing. do not put anything after it. π-v,--versionβ shows version info and exits. cute and quick. β
π SEE ALSO π
Go to <http://psi-im.org/> for more information about Psi. π§ that's the link, that's the whole vibe, go be nosy.
and that's the tea, bestie π this was Psi 0.14, dated January 2012, living in the PSI(1) manual. yes, 2012. a vintage queen. she ate and left no crumbs. mwah. πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: psi 1.5+dfsg1-1+b1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: psi 1.5+dfsg1-2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: psi 1.5+dfsg1-1build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: psi 1.5+dfsg1-1.1build3 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: psi 1.5+dfsg1-2
- ubuntu resolute: psi 1.5+dfsg1-2.1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: psi 1.5+dfsg1-2.1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms