a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop

Features

• Encrypted profiles
• Secure, private messaging
• Read receipts
• Contact aliases
• Customizable avatars
• Emojis 👍
• File transfers
• Screenshot sharing
• Group chats
• Socks5 Proxy support
• Spell checking
• Sound notifications
• Faux offline messaging
• Voice and video chat

Roadmap

See projects for planned features.

Translations

Translations are done via the venom project on weblate. Don't create pull requests for translations here. Updated translations from weblate will be merged in this repository on every release.

FAQ

• Save file location

  Tox profiles and history files are saved in $XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/.

  • For the flatpak bundle $XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/ is at ~/.var/app/com.github.naxuroqa.venom/tox/
  • Otherwise $XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/ is at ~/.local/share/tox/

• Data file interoperability

  Tox data files from qTox and toxic can be reused, both encrypted and unencrypted. This only includes the *.tox files, all other files (history, etc.) are not supported.

Dependencies

• gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22
• glib-2.0 >= 2.56
• json-glib-1.0
• libcanberra >= 0.30
• libgee >= 0.18
• libsoup-2.4
• gspell >= 1.8
• sqlcipher
• toxcore >= 0.2
• libgstreamer1.0 >= 1.14

Build-Dependencies

• meson >= 0.46
• vala >= 0.40

Compiling

meson ./build && cd build
ninja
ninja install

Testing

ninja test

Contact

Join the #tox or #toktok IRC channels on freenode