Tox-WeeChat

Tox-WeeChat is a Tox protocol plugin for WeeChat. It is functional, but lacks certain features like Tox DNS.

Current build status:

Installation

Tox-WeeChat is available in the AUR and the [haavard] pacman repository.

Tox-WeeChat requires WeeChat >= 1.0.1, SQLite >= 3.6.19 and the latest-ish libtoxcore. It also requires CMake to be built. Installation is fairly simple; after getting the source, compile and install using CMake:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -DPLUGIN_PATH=~/.weechat/plugins ..
$ make install

This installs the plugin binary tox.so to the recommended location ~/.weechat/plugins. The default location is /usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins.

Usage

If the plugin does not load automatically, load it with /plugin load tox. You may have to specify the full path to the plugin binary.
Create a new profile with /tox create <name>. The data file is stored in ~/.weechat/tox/ by default.
Load your profile and connect to the Tox network with /tox load <name>.
Change your name with /name <new name>.
Get your Tox ID with /myid.
To add friends or respond to friend requests, /help friend will get you started.
Message a friend with /msg <friend number>. Get their friend number with /friend list.

Run /help -listfull tox to get a list of all available commands, and /set tox.* for a list of options.

Common issues

Long Tox names messing up WeeChat layout

Tox allows names up to 128 bytes long. To prevent long names from taking all your screen space, you can set the following options in WeeChat:

weechat.bar.nicklist.size_max
weechat.look.prefix_align_max
buffers.look.name_size_max (if using buffers.pl)

Tox won't connect through my proxy

Make sure the address and port is correct, and that UDP is disabled (/set tox.profile.*.udp).

TODO

Tox DNS
Encrypted save files
WeeChat's /upgrade
Audio/video chats

License

This file is part of Tox-WeeChat.

Tox-WeeChat is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Tox-WeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Tox-WeeChat. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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