binhex-hexchat

Overview

HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it's completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. Since XChat is open source, it's perfectly legal. For more info. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was a successor of freakschat.

Runtime arguments

Web UI: https://[IP]:[PORT:6080]/vnc.html?resize=remote&host=[IP]&port=[PORT:6080]&autoconnect=1
Network: bridge
Shell: bash
Privileged: false
Extra Params: --restart=unless-stopped

Template configuration

Port: VNC InterfacePorttcp

Specify the port used for VNC client connectivity.

Target: 5900
Default: 5900

Port: Web InterfacePorttcp

Specify the Web UI port for for the application.

Target: 6080
Default: 6080

Path: /configPathrw

Specify the container path to your configuration files, e.g. databases, configuration files, logs etc.

Target: /config
Default: /mnt/user/appdata/hexchat

Path: /dataPathrw

Specify the container path to your downloaded files or user created content.

Target: /data

Variable: HTTPS_CERT_PATHVariable

Specify the path to the HTTPS certificate file

Target: HTTPS_CERT_PATH

Variable: HTTPS_KEY_PATHVariable

Specify the path to the HTTPS key file

Target: HTTPS_KEY_PATH

Variable: WEBPAGE_TITLEVariable

Specify the web title shown for the webpage

Target: WEBPAGE_TITLE
Default: HexChat

Variable: VNC_PASSWORDVariable

Specify the password to access the Web UI, if blank no password will be prompted.

Target: VNC_PASSWORD

Variable: ENABLE_STARTUP_SCRIPTSVariable

Specify whether to run a startup script which can in turn install additional packages.

Target: ENABLE_STARTUP_SCRIPTS
Default: no|yes

Variable: ENABLE_HEALTHCHECKVariable

Enable or disable healthchecks.

Target: ENABLE_HEALTHCHECK
Default: yes|no

Variable: HEALTHCHECK_COMMANDVariable

The command or script to execute, if not specified then the script healthcheck.sh will be used (process, dns and https checking).

Target: HEALTHCHECK_COMMAND

Variable: HEALTHCHECK_ACTIONVariable

The action to execute if the healthcheck command returns a non zero exit code, if not specified the action will be 'exit 1', if you want the container to exit on failure then set the action to 'kill 1'.

Target: HEALTHCHECK_ACTION

Variable: HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAMEVariable

The hostname used when performing HTTPS and DNS healthchecking.

Target: HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAME
Default: google.com

Variable: PUIDVariable

User ID for the running container

Target: PUID
Default: 99

Variable: PGIDVariable

Group ID for the running container

Target: PGID
Default: 100

Variable: UMASKVariable

UMASK for the running container

Target: UMASK
Default: 000

Links

Template Support Registry Project

Details

Repository

ghcr.io/binhex/arch-hexchat

Registry

https://github.com/binhex/arch-hexchat/pkgs/container/arch-hexchat

Last Updated2025-08-03

First Seen2019-07-01

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