Other CB Clients

"Hitting reload all the time is getting old! Is there a better way? What other clients can I use for the Chatterbox?"

Try one of these alternate programs/scripts/pages for the Chatterbox, categorized for your convenience:

• No installation required, click and type.
• FullPage Chat and Enhanced FullPage Chat - web page w/ frames.
• Free Nodelet Hack: Floating Chatterbox - lets you "detach" the Chatterbox Nodelet.
• new java chat client. (The code is allegedly available at Sourceforge, if you would rather deal with a standalone app than embedded java applets.)
• The chatterbox sidebar doesn't require manual installation, but on most modern browsers, you can bookmark it, edit the properties of the bookmark, and use it as a sidebar.


• Cross platform GUI clients.
• mchattk
• Perl/Tk Chatterbox Client
• RedWolf MonkChatter
• katterbox
• Adso.pl
• pm-cb-g by choroba


• Command line.
• Unix text-mode CB Client
• Curses Chatterbox Client
• pmchat
• pm-cb (read-only, currently) by choroba


• Local web server required.
• framechat2 is the updated version of framechat (source at framechat.pl)


• Windows only.
• Win32::GUI Chatterbox client
• AgentChat


• Interfaces for other protocols.
• Jabber Bot For Chatterbox
• perlmonkscb: An AIM / CB gateway.
• Monktalk - Speech interface to chatterbox.
• monkyack.pl
• PerlMonks pager


• Support scripts and info.
• See the XML generators if you want to roll your own client.
• There are numerous scripts and modules listed in PerlMonks Related Scripts. Some are better and better-maintained than others. Perhaps the most well known is:
• PerlMonks Modules project on SourceForge

You may also be interested in ways to see recent chatterbox history.

This is still an incomplete list. If you know of others, /msg any SiteDocClan member to have it added.