Toxygen

Toxygen is powerful cross-platform Tox client for Tox and IRC/weechat written in pure Python3.

Install - Contribute - Plugins - Compile - Contact

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

Features:

• PyQt5, PyQt6, and maybe PySide2, PySide6 via qtpy
• IRC via weechat /relay
• NGC groups
• 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

Screenshots

Toxygen on Ubuntu and Windows

Windows was working but is not currently being tested. AV is working but the video is garbled: 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.

IRC Weechat

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 https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/qweechat that you must install first, which was backported to PyQt5 then qtpy and integrated into toxygen. Follow the normal instructions for adding a relay to weechat

/relay add weechat 9000
/relay start weechat

or

weechat -r '/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 are 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 The same with https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/qweechat

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 mainly 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 of its main structures in C so the project may break the underlying ctypes wrapper at any time; it's not possible to use Tox version numbers to tell what the API will be. The last git version this code was tested with is ``1623e3ee5c3a5837a92f959f289fcef18bfa9c959``` of Feb 12 10:06:37 2024. 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!