XChat 1.2: Settings

No Server List On Startup - When set the server is not shown on program startup
Auto Save URL List - Save the URL list on exit
Double Click Command - The command that is run when a user in the userlist is double clicked. %s in the option is replaced with the nickname of that user before running.

Nick Name Completion - When set text put in will be scanned for incomplete nicknames at the beginning and corrected. Also see tab nickname completion
Time Stamp All Text - When set a time is printed at the beginning of every line
Tab Nicks - When set nicknames and text are aligned with a tab
Colored Nicks - When set nicknames are color coded
Strip mIRC Color - When set all color codes in received text are stripped
Filter out BEEP's - When set all BEEP codes are stripped
Text Buffer Size - The number of lines a text box buffers (0 = all lines)
ZVT Buffer Size - The number of lines a ZVT text box buffers

Channel Mode Buttons - When set the mode buttons are displayed on the tool bar
User List Buttons - When set the command buttons under the userlist are displayed
New Tabs to Front - When set new tabs are set to be the visible tab
Channel Tabs - When set new channels are displayed in tabs
Private Message Tabs - When set private dialogs are displayed in tabs
Tabs at bottom - When set the tabs are put at the bottom of the notebook
Use a separate tab/window for server messages - When this is set server messages are treated as a channel and are put in their own tab or window
Disable Paned Userlist - When this is set the userlist cannot be paned across to be made bigger and is of fixed size

These two sections are the same except on what they effect

Normal Font - The font used for normal text
Bold Font - The font used for bold text
Background Picture - An image used in the background of the text box
Use ZVT - When set a ZVT (Zed Virtual Terminal, no connection to zed) widget is used not a GTK text box
Transparent Background - (only with ZVT) When set the background of the ZVT is pseudo-transparent
Tint Transparency - (only with above) When set the transparent background is tinted

Hide Session on Panelize - When set the tab/window is hidden when panelized
Layout For a Vertical Panel - When set the panel buttons are packed top to bottom

5.2 IRC

Raw Mode Display - When set modes are shown in raw IRC mode rather than descriptive texts
Beep on Private Messages - When set the internal bell is sounded on a private message
Quit Message - The text sent as a reason for you quitting
DNS Lookup Program - The name of the program used to lookup IP's
Auto ReConnect Delay - The number of seconds to wait before reconnecting to a server

Autodetect hostname - When set the hostname is auto probed
Autodetect IP address - When set the local IP is auto probed
Hostname - If not auto probing this is the hostname
IP address - If not auto probing this is the IP
Get my IP from Server - (only if auto probing) Gets the IP address from the server

Extra Words to Highlight on - Words other than your nickname that will trigger a highlight
Hilighted Nick Color - The color set for highlighted nicks

Logging - When set logs are created in ~/.xchat/xchatlogs
No ServerName in logs - When set the names of the log files do not include the servername so #somechannel on two different servers are treated as the same file

Highlight Notifies - When set nicks in the userlist are set to a highlight color if they are on your notify list
Notified User Color - The color used for the above
Notify Check Interval - The number of seconds between checking the status of people on your notify list (0 = do not check)

DCC Offers Timeout - The number of seconds before a DCC offer is removed (0 = disable)
DCC Stall Timeout - The number of seconds before a stalled connection is dropped (0 = disable)
File permissions - The permissions (in octal) of files created by DCC (0600 is suggested)
Directory to save to - The directory in which DCC files are put
Save file with Nickname - Prepend the nickname of the sender to the name of the DCC file
Fast DCC Send - When set DCC doesn't wait for ACK's before sending the next packet