toxygen/README.md

# Toxygen

Toxygen is powerful cross-platform [Tox](https://tox.chat/) client
written in pure Python3.

### [Install](/docs/install.md) - [Contribute](/docs/contributing.md) - [Plugins](/docs/plugins.md) - [Compile](/docs/compile.md) - [Contact](/docs/contact.md)

### 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*
![Ubuntu](/docs/ubuntu.png)
![Windows](/docs/windows.png)

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](https://github.com/weechat/qweechat)
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](https://github.com/weechat/weechat)
```
/relay add ipv4.ssl.weechat 9000
/relay start ipv4.ssl.weechat
```
or
```
/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

Although Tox works over Tor, we do not recommend its usage for
anonymity as it leaks DNS requests due to a 6-year old known security
issue: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/469 Do not use it for
anonymous communication unless you have a TCP and UDP firewall in place.


## MultiDevice

Work on this project is suspended until the
[MultiDevice](https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/tox_profile/wiki/MultiDevice-Announcements-POC) problem is solved. Fork me!