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I am looking for a decent IRC client *that will not disconnect me if I am idle for a while.* I have tried Snak, but it's the worst for that; otherwise I love it. I took a ten-second look at ircle and decided I didn't want all those pesky windows or the learning curve. (Not that I haven't used irssi before and couldn't learn ircle. I just don't want to. There's a *reason* I went Mac.) I tried Minerva and it was just not ready for prime time; two of the tree sections of the preferences simply didn't work. I gave x-chat Aqua a quick trial run and it didn't do Freenode as installed and I didn't bother to see if I could add it. I have tried Colloquoy, but it does the disconnect thing, too, just not as fast as Snak seems to.

Does anyone have any advice as far as an IRC client that might do what I want? I'm not big on bells and whistles, although I do like being able to have more than one channel in use at a time, and I do need ops options available.