Hidden Preferences
Colloquy has a few hidden preferences that enable or disable features that are still under development or not ready for widespread use. All of those features are toggled from the Terminal application using the defaults command. Remember to restart Colloquy after issuing these commands in the Terminal.
Attention: Colloquy's pref path has changed recently, so if you have an old version of Colloquy and the commands listed here don't work fo you, you should either update (recommended) or use cc.javelin.colloquy instead of info.colloquy in the terminal commands.
Show Notices as Direct Chat
Use the following to have notices (i.e. someone uses /notice <yourname> <noticemessage>) show in a new direct chat (query) panel:
defaults write info.colloquy JVChatAlwaysShowNotices -bool true
This is now available in the preferences. In the Interface panel, last checkbox.
Input Box manually resizes
defaults write info.colloquy JVChatInputAutoResizes -bool false
Show AppleScript Plugin debug error dialogs
defaults write info.colloquy JVEnableAppleScriptDebugging -bool true
Disable Growl in favor of internal notifications
Disable use of external Growl notifications and use the internal ones instead (useful since Growl lacks some of the features that Colloquy has, and also doesn't look as good ;)
defaults write info.colloquy DisableGrowl -bool true
Input History uses arrow-keys (no option key)
Lets the input history behave like it was before (only the arrow keys, not option-arrow)
defaults write info.colloquy JVSendHistoryUsesOnlyArrows -bool true
Set Idle time
Colloquy considers you idle when you have not used your computer for JVIdleTime seconds, which defaults to 300 (5 minutes)
defaults write info.colloquy JVIdleTime 600
will set it to 10 minutes, for example.
Black Sidebar text
The fix for bug #664 made the selected row in the Sidebar have white text. We added a new hidden preference to make it black text if someone can't read it.
defaults write info.colloquy JVSidebarSelectedRowHasBlackText -bool true
