Toxygen

Toxygen is powerful cross-platform Tox client written in pure Python3.

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Supported OS: Linux and Windows (only Linux is tested at the moment)

Features:

1v1 messages
File transfers
Audio calls
Video calls
Group chats
Plugins support
Desktop sharing
Chat history
Emoticons
Stickers
Screenshots
Name lookups (toxme.io support)
Save file encryption
Profile import and export
Faux offline messaging
Faux offline file transfers
Inline images
Message splitting
Proxy support - runs over tor
Avatars
Multiprofile
Multilingual
Sound notifications
Contact aliases
Contact blocking
Typing notifications
Changing nospam
File resuming
Read receipts
uses gevent
NGC groups
PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2, PySide6 via qtpy

Screenshots

Toxygen on Ubuntu and Windows

Windows was working but is not currently being tested. AV was working but is not currently being tested: we're unsure of handling the AV devices from the commandline. We need to get a working echobot that supports SOCKS5; we were working on one in https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper

Forked

This hard-forked from the dead https://github.com/toxygen-project/toxygen next_gen branch.

See ToDo.md to the current ToDo list.

Wechat

You can have a weechat console so that you can have IRC and jabber in a window as well as Tox. There's a copy of qweechat in thirdparty/qweechat backported to PyQt5 and integrated into toxygen. Follow the normal instructions for adding a relay to weechat

/relay add ipv4.ssl.weechat 9000
/relay start ipv4.ssl.weechat

/relay add weechat 9000
/relay start weechat

and use the Plugins/Weechat Console to start weechat under Toxygen. Then use the File/Connect menu item of the Console to connect to weechat.

Weechat has a Jabber plugin to enable XMPP:

/python load jabber.el
/help jabber

so you can have Tox, IRC and XMPP in the same application! See docs/ToxygenWeechat.md

Install

To install read the requirements.txt and look at the comments; there may be things that need installing by hand or decisions to be made on supported alternatives.

https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper needs packaging on pypi as it is a dependency. Just download and install it from https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper

This is being ported to Qt6 using qtpy https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy It now runs on PyQt5 and PyQt6, and may run on PySide2 and PySide6 - YMMV. You will be able to choose between them by setting the environment variable QT_API to one of: pyqt5 pyqt6 pyside2 pyside6. It's currently tested only on PyQt5.

To install it, look in the Makefile for the install target and type

make install

You should set the PIP_EXE_MSYS and PYTHON_EXE_MSYS variables and it does

	${PIP_EXE_MSYS} --python ${PYTHON_EXE_MSYS} install \
		--no-deps \
		--target ${PREFIX}/lib/python${PYTHON_MINOR}/site-packages/ \
		--upgrade .

and installs into PREFIX which is usually /usr/local

Updates

Up-to-date code is on https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen

Tox works over Tor, and the c-toxcore library can leak DNS requests due to a 6-year old known security issue: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/469 but toxygen looksup addresses before calling c-toxcore. This also allows us to use onion addresses in the DHTnodes.json file. Still for anonymous communication we recommend having a TCP and UDP firewall in place.

Although Tox works with multi-user group chat, there are no checks against impersonation of a screen nickname, so you may not be chatting with the person you think. For the Toxic client, the (closed) issue is: https://github.com/JFreegman/toxic/issues/622#issuecomment-1922116065 Solving this might best be done with a solution to MultiDevice q.v.

The Tox project does not follow semantic versioning so the project may break the underlying ctypes wrapper at any time; it's not possible to use Tox version numbers to tel what the API will be. In which case you'll have to go into the tox.py file in https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper to fix it yourself.

MultiDevice

Work on this project is suspended until the MultiDevice problem is solved. Fork me!

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