Circle is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local client and the common screen+irssi recipe:

* Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing disconnections from local UI. * Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.

Circle uses Tangence for its underlying communications layer.

This package is meant to be used together with a package providing a user-facing frontend, e.g. circle-term or circle-gtk.