Management
Room Creation
You can create new rooms and spaces using the :create
command. By default,
the room is private and unencrypted, but you can use the following flags to
configure how it is initially created:
++space
to make it a space++public
to make the room publicly joinable++enc
/++encrypted
to make it an encrypted room++alias=__localpart__
to set a canonical alias
For example, you could use the following to create a new public space #community:example.com
:
:create ++space ++alias=community ++public
Room Invitations
Private Matrix rooms require someone to be let in by a current member with a
high enough power level. You can invite someone to join a room through the
:invite send
command:
:invite send @user:example.com
The user will receive an invitation that they can then choose to accept or reject. If you’ve received an invitation to a room, space, or direct message, you can open it up, focus the window and run:
:invite accept
to accept the invitation and join the room:invite reject
to reject the invitation
Setting Room Properties
You can set the description of the currently focused room using the :set
command:
:room topic set "This is the new room topic"
Similarly, if you need to change the room’s name:
:room name set "Watercooler Discussion"
If you want to remove the topic or name, you can use :room topic unset
or
:room name unset
.
Setting Room Tags
Matrix rooms can be tagged to help with sorting them. Several special tags that Matrix defines are:
m.favourite
for favorite rooms that you look at oftenm.lowpriority
for rooms that you don’t look at oftenm.server_notice
for rooms where homeserver announcements are made
In iamb, you can modify the tags of an open room using:
:room tag set m.favourite
You can use :room tag set fav
as a shorthand for m.favourite
, and :room tag set low
as a shorthand for m.lowpriority
.
If you want to unset a tag, you can do:
:room tag unset fav
Matrix also allows users to apply their own tags that start with u.
. For
example, if you wanted to mark rooms that are bridged to an IRC channel, you
could do:
:room tag set u.irc
Note that user tags are not shown by all clients, so while they will appear in iamb, you won’t necessarily see them elsewhere.