a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop
- Encrypted profiles
- Secure, private messaging
- Read receipts
- Contact aliases
- Customizable avatars
- Emojis 👍
- File transfers
- Screenshot sharing
- Group chats
- Socks5 Proxy support
- Spell checking
- Sound notifications
- Faux offline messaging
- Voice and video chat
See projects for planned features.
Translations are done via the venom project on weblate. Don't create pull requests for translations here. Updated translations from weblate will be merged in this repository on every release.
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Save file location
Tox profiles and history files are saved in
$XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/.- For the flatpak bundle
$XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/is at~/.var/app/com.github.naxuroqa.venom/tox/ - Otherwise
$XDG_DATA_HOME/tox/is at~/.local/share/tox/
- For the flatpak bundle
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Data file interoperability
Tox data files from qTox and toxic can be reused, both encrypted and unencrypted. This only includes the
*.toxfiles, all other files (history, etc.) are not supported.
gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22glib-2.0 >= 2.56json-glib-1.0libcanberra >= 0.30libgee >= 0.18libsoup-2.4gspell >= 1.8sqlciphertoxcore >= 0.2libgstreamer1.0 >= 1.14
meson >= 0.46vala >= 0.40
meson ./build && cd build
ninja
ninja installninja testJoin the #tox or #toktok IRC channels on freenode