WeeChat Qt remote GUI

QWeeChat is a Qt remote GUI for WeeChat written in Python.

Homepage: https://weechat.org/

Features

• Multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & others).
• Free software, released under GPLv3.

Install

Dependencies

QWeeChat requires:

• Python ≥ 3.7
• PySide6
• WeeChat ≥ 0.3.7, on local or remote machine, with relay plugin enabled and listening on a port with protocol "weechat"

Install via source distribution

$ pip install .

WeeChat setup

You have to add a relay port in WeeChat, for example on port 1234:

/set relay.network.password "mypass"
/relay add weechat 1234

Connect to WeeChat

In QWeeChat, click on connect and enter fields:

• hostname: the IP address or hostname of your machine with WeeChat running
• port: the relay port (defined in WeeChat)
• password: the relay password (defined in WeeChat)
• totp: the Time-Based One-Time Password (optional, to set if required by WeeChat)

Options can be changed in file ~/.config/qweechat/qweechat.conf.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011-2025 Sébastien Helleu

This file is part of QWeeChat, a Qt remote GUI for WeeChat.

QWeeChat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

QWeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with QWeeChat. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.