I see. I'm obviously new to irc. I recently began a job where I need to be connected throughout the day. If someone tries to reach me, the 'alerts' in xchat will send out a beep and a tray notification on my desktop. I was hoping to run xchat in the background on my n900 (when I am away from my desktop) and be able to know when someone is trying to reach me without having to always be visually checking the screen. If the phone could beep / vibrate when a highlighted message is received, that would be great.