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Toxic

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

Repository: https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic
Maintainers: Jfreegman, mannol
Language: C
Graphical Toolkit: ncurses
Operating Systems: Linux, OS X, FreeBSD
Status: Active

History

Toxic was originally 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in its initial state, rapid development by the Tox community made it the first 'usable' Tox client, and it soon superseded nTox as the reference CLI client.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 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.

Toxic Running on Linux

Install

Install the 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 no-X11 versions of toxic respectively.

Building from Source (advanced)

To build Toxic from source, installation instructions and library dependencies can be found in 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

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 toxic`. For details on the user configuration file, run `man toxic.conf` or see the 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

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