https://wiki.tox.chat/ 2026-04-06T10:34:15+00:00 https://wiki.tox.chat/ https://wiki.tox.chat/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-01-22T22:16:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/community?rev=1769120161&do=diff Community Tox When joining a Tox group chat, your IP address is visible to everyone in the group chat. Connecting either via Tor, a SOCKS/HTTP proxy, a VPN, or running Tox remotely on a VPS mitigates exposing your IP. Group chats require recent enough Toxcore (>= v0.2.19) and a client that supports the new group chats, e.g. toxic. text/html 2021-04-13T23:24:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/contributing?rev=1618356248&do=diff Contributing As an open source project, Tox needs developers first and foremost. Graphic designers are very welcome too. Adventurous users can test and report bugs, translators will be necessary later on to translate stuff, and this wiki could always use another pair of hands! text/html 2020-06-07T23:42:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/faq?rev=1591573348&do=diff Frequently Asked Questions see also Technical FAQ Warning! Tox is by no means complete. You may encounter bugs ranging from simple visual defects to segfaults on file shares. We cannot guarantee what works today will work tomorrow; Tox is an alpha program and code changes daily. Certain commits may break existing APIs, and we strive to give proper advanced warning to all client developers, etc. when such changes will be made. Additionally, Tox has not yet received a full security audit. text/html 2020-07-16T18:58:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/howtos?rev=1594925911&do=diff How Tos How to run a Tox Bootstrap Node Running a node Why to: Running a Tox Bootstrap Node helps some new users join the Tox network and start communicating. This helps Tox be more reliable and reach more people, and helps the Tox project in general. How to share your Tox ID with your friends text/html 2015-07-22T17:54:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/import_export?rev=1437587687&do=diff How to import / export profiles in Tox clients? qTox Import Importing through GUI was possible before, but due to a regression one has to do it manually now. Linux Copy the .tox profile to ~/.config/tox/ Windows Copy the .tox profile to %APPDATA\tox\ text/html 2025-12-24T05:06:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes?rev=1766552785&do=diff Bootstrap Nodes In order to facilitate quick connections to other people using Tox, Tox employs bootstrap nodes that each client may connect to in order to retrieve a list of clients currently connected to the pool. Real time node status To see the real time status of the nodes below visit text/html 2021-03-29T15:27:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/offline_messaging?rev=1617031671&do=diff Offline Messaging Pseudo-Offline messaging vs. Fully Offline messaging Most clients (qTox, µTox, Toxygen, Antox, and others) implement pseudo-offline messaging. Pseudo-offline messaging essentially schedules a message to be sent to a friend the next time you are both online. While this can be convenient at times, it still requires both clients to be online at the same time for one to message the other. Fully offline, asynchronous messages would not carry this requirement. text/html 2016-06-13T17:07:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/problematic_antivirus_software?rev=1465837664&do=diff There were / are some antiviruses that mark Tox clients as false positive. Please make sure that you did get Tox from official Tox website. If your antivirus is not on a list, you may want to report it. Please also report problem to your antivirus makers. List of problematic antiviruses text/html 2018-02-22T02:32:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/runningnodes?rev=1519266760&do=diff How to run a Bootstrap Node tox-bootstrapd - Tox Bootstrap Daemon (recommended) Tox Bootstrap Daemon, or tox-bootstrapd for short, is a highly configurable Linux/Unix daemon that acts as a bootstrap node. tox-bootstrapd resides in the toxcore repository and is built along with the toxcore as long as you text/html 2020-07-16T18:55:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/sharing_ids?rev=1594925715&do=diff Sharing Tox IDs WARNING: If you are looking for shorter and more memorable IDs, remember that the relation between any kind of names and Tox IDs is neither protected nor ensured by the Tox protocol. By the nature of name services you put full trust into unverified third party data and also get that data over a different, insecure protocol. The safest way to share your Tox ID is by giving your Tox ID directly over a secure channel. text/html 2020-05-23T17:04:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/techfaq?rev=1590253462&do=diff Technical FAQ Please note the warning. What is Tox? (Advanced) Tox provides an encrypted, distributed, and extensible peer-to-peer platform that can be used for various forms of communication. We intend Tox to be used as a multimedia messenger, but many people have shown us that Tox can be used for a lot more than just instant messaging. For the sake of simplicity, the rest of this page will explain how Tox operates as its intended use. text/html 2020-06-22T15:30:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/toxcore?rev=1592839805&do=diff Toxcore Toxcore is the core library used by Tox clients, responsible for handling the end-to-end encrypted communication of the Tox protocol. The cryptographic library used by Toxcore is NaCl via libsodium. Tox employs curve25519 for its key exchanges, xsalsa20 for symmetric encryption, and text/html 2020-07-16T18:52:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/toxid?rev=1594925530&do=diff Tox ID Tox IDs are strings of 76 hexadecimal characters, generated when a user creates a Tox profile. These IDs are used for adding contacts. Components Tox IDs consist of three parts: public key, NoSpam, and checksum. [ Tox ID ] Public key The main part of a Tox ID is called the public key and consists of the first 64 characters. text/html 2018-03-15T19:06:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/toxlinks?rev=1521140796&do=diff Tox: Hyperlinks for Users In addition to copy-pasting(or hand-typing) the Tox ID into your client to initiate a Friend Request, Tox also supports the use of “Tox:” URI's to create hyperlinks which will launch the user's Tox client automatically and copy your Tox ID into it's text/html 2020-06-22T16:09:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/tox_over_tor_tot?rev=1592842199&do=diff Tox over Tor With the ever increasing need for anonymity online, Toxcore now supports TCP-only communications to be used through services such as Tor. Tunneling Tox over Tor allows the user to still communicate with non-Tor contacts, unlike I2P, providing the best of both worlds. The following guide will explain how to setup ToT with the various Tox clients. text/html 2020-08-15T07:36:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/troubleshooting?rev=1597476966&do=diff Troubleshooting There's several possible kinds of issues: * Client issues. Please report them to your client bug tracker (for example, qTox bug tracker, Toxy bug tracker or uTox bug tracker). * Issues with the Tox core library should be reported to the toxcore bug tracker. Do not report an issue to toxcore if you are not entirely sure whether it's a core issue. Instead, report it as a client issue. text/html 2015-11-17T10:57:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tox.chat/users/writing_useful_bug_reports?rev=1447757837&do=diff Writing Useful Bug Reports Adapted from this page at the qTox wiki article, in turn adapted from the Textmate wiki article. Primarily adapted for generalization to other clients. What To Include Adapted from the guide in the textmate/textmate repository A good bug report must include the following four things: