======Toxic======

**Toxic** is a Tox client with a command-line interface. Development is currently lead by Jfreegman.

| Repository:         | https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic                             |
| Maintainers:        | [[wiki:user:Jfreegman]]                                        |
| Language:           | C                                                              |
| Graphical Toolkit:  | [[https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html|ncurses]]  |
| Operating Systems:  | Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, Android                                  |
| Status:             | Active                                                         |
===== History =====
Toxic was originally [[https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic/commit/1974fa23d21bedb672f1c0d77dfa85f73037f5c1|written]] by Plutooo in the experimental branch of ProjectTox on July 29, 2013. Following Plutooo's disappearance soon after his initial commit, Jfreegman took over leadership and continued Toxic's development. Although extremely buggy and lacking in basic features in its initial state, rapid development by the Tox community made it the first 'usable' Tox client, and it soon superseded [[nTox]] as the reference CLI client. Toxic was initially part of the toxcore repository, but was [[https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/commit/c759967ad403a22b5baa729f9b6b395f9c766cd4|moved]] to its own github repository as a stand-alone project on August 23, 2013, and moved again to Jfreegman's account on October 15, 2015.

{{ users:toxic.png?380px|Toxic Running on Linux}}

===== Install =====
==== Package installation ====

Install the [[:binaries|Tox Debian repository]] per the instructions. For debian-based systems (Ubuntu, Mint etc.) use the command ''apt-get install toxic'' or ''apt-get install toxic-no-x11'' to install the fully featured and bare-bones versions of toxic respectively. This is not the recommended way to install Toxic, as most repositories serve very old versions of Toxic that lack the latest features and bug fixes.
==== Building from Source (Recommended) ====
To build Toxic from source, installation instructions and library dependencies can be found in [[https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic/blob/master/README.md|Toxic's Readme]]. 

==== FreeBSD ====

=== Binary ===

Use pkg utility to install binary package:
  pkg install toxic

=== Compiling ===

Update ports tree:
  portsnap fetch update

Compile and install client with all dependencies:
  cd /usr/ports/net-im/toxic
  make install clean

==== Android ====
Toxic is available on Android via the ''Termux'' app. Simply install ''Termux'' from your app repository of choice, open the app, and run ''apt-get install toxic''. You can update Toxic when new updates are available via the command ''apt-get update''. Note that the Android version does not currently support audio/video.

===== Usage =====
Once toxic is compiled and/or installed, it can be run via the commandline with the command ''toxic''. For a list of options run ''toxic --help''. For detailed usage instructions, see the manpage with ''man toxi''. For details on the user configuration file, run ''man toxic.conf'' or see the [[https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic/blob/master/misc/toxic.conf.example|example config file]].

===== Features =====
  * Audio and native desktop notifications (may be disabled with build options or in settings)
  * Pseudo-offline messaging
  * SOCKS5 and HTTP Proxy support (Disable UDP with the --force-tcp option to prevent IP leakage)
  * Contact blocking
  * Password protected profiles
  * Ability to encrypt and unencrypt Tox profiles (works with profiles from any Tox client)
  * Advanced command-line behaviour such as tab-completion, killing/yanking, word deletion etc.
  * Ability to act as a TCP relay in the Tox network
  * Configurable bootstrap nodes list
===== Other clients =====

{{page>include:clients}}