How do I join all the channels in my weechat layout?

Question

Sometimes I need to reboot my linode, which includes my IRC client, weechat, running in tmux. When I do this, I prefer to save all the buffers that are running and rejoin them. I was under the impression that:

 /layout save
 /save

Would store the appropriate information and

 /layout apply

Would... well apply it. Unfortunately, while it correctly places new channels, it does not in any way rejoin the ones I was connected to before. I understand that I can manually add a list of channels to autojoin, for each network, but if I have to do that tedious process each time I need to close and reopen weechat... well that would be a drag at the very least.

Any ideas? I am sure I've done this before.

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 22:53

Okay, after asking around in the freenode #weechat channel a bit I finally got this:

Download the autojoin.py script to ~/.weechat/python/autoload
Run /python autoload to load the script
Run /autojoin --run to store the channels to join
Run /layout store to store the order of the channels
Run /save to save your settings to a file

Next time you start weechat and connect to a server the channels you were connected to when you did these steps will be joined for you.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '23 at 12:58

WeeChat 3.5 (released on 2022-03-27) has introduced a built-in /autojoin command. If you are running version 3.5 or above, the autojoin.py script mentioned in Frew's answer is no longer needed. The updated steps are as follows:

Run /autojoin apply to set the currently joined channels in the autojoin option.
Run /layout store to store the order of the channels.
Run /save to save your settings to a file.

The next time you start WeeChat and connect to a server, the channels you were connected to when you did these steps will be joined for you.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 13 '19 at 15:37

Here is how you can automate the other answer such that your buffer layout is saved to disk every hour:

Get the cron.py user script:
- Run /script (e.g. in the weechat.core buffer)
- Type cron, press Enter in the buffer which was just opened
- Select cron.py via cursors, type i and press Enter for installation.
In the weechat.core buffer, execute the following command:
```
/cron add 0 1 * * * * core.weechat commands /autojoin --run;/layout store;/save
```
This adds an hourly cron job running the commands the other answer suggested. Note that the commands are separated by ; without trailing spaces! Execute /cron help for more information.
Test this by first executing /cron list, remembering the number of the cron job you just added (e.g. 001), and then running /cron exec 001.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 23 '24 at 19:14

I'm using Weechat 3.8 and had some trouble making the built in /autojoin command work with the cron.py script.

/autojoin apply needs to be ran on an irc buffer (server, channel, or private).
To save all channels on all servers you can run /allserv /autojoin apply from anywhere.

The cron job mentioned by ComFreek should now read:

/cron add 0 1 * * * * core.weechat commands /allserv /autojoin apply;/layout store;/save

How do I join all the channels in my weechat layout?

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