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ratox

ratox ratox is a client implementation of the rather popular tox protocol. Unlike other clients relying on GUIs as an interface to the user, ratox is developed with the UNIX-philosophy in mind and allows complete interaction through named pipes.

Repository: http://git.2f30.org/ratox/
Maintainers: 2f30
Language: C
Operating Systems: Linux, OSX

History

Features

1 v 1 messaging: Yes File transfer: Yes Group chat: No Audio: Yes Video: No DNS discovery: No Chat logs: Yes Proxy support: Yes Offline message: Yes Offline transfers: Yes Contact aliases: No Contact blocking: No Save file encryption: Yes Multilingual: No Multiprofile: Yes Typing notification: No Audio notifications: No Emoticons: No Spell check: No Desktop sharing: No Inline images: No File resuming: No Read receipts: No Message splitting: Yes Changing nospam: Yes toxi URI: No

NOTE: Some of these features are not intended to be developed in ratox itself but rather in external scripts[1] that are built upon ratox.

Installation

Usage

An old, but possibly still useful way of using ratox, catox

SSH over TOX for the practical paranoid


On the sender side (the client): 1) cd into the friend's directory (the server) 2) nc -lv 1234 > file_in < file_out

On the receiver side (the server): 1) cd into the friend's directory (the client) 2) cat < file_out | nc localhost 22 > file_in

Now on the client run the following: ssh -o ProxyCommand=“nc %h 1234” user@localhost

Screencasting using ffmpeg and mplayer


On the sender side: ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 10 -s 1366×768 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 \

  1. pix_fmt yuv420p -preset fast -tune zerolatency -b:v 500k \
  2. f flv pipe: > file_in

On the receiver side: mplayer -cache 1024 file_out

You may have to play about with the cache size.

Other clients

The following is a list of some other Tox clients that you may be interested in using.

Popular Tox clients
qTox µTox Toxic Toxygen aTox Antidote
 
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