Toxic

Toxic is an ncurses based instant messaging client for Tox which formerly resided in the Tox core repository and is now available as a standalone program. It looks like this.

Installation

Base dependencies

• libtoxcore
• ncurses (for Debian based systems: libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev)

Audio dependencies

• libtoxav
• openal

Compiling

• cd build/
• make
• sudo make install DESTDIR="/path/you/like"
• You can add specific flags to makefile with USER_CFLAGS="" and/or USER_LDFLAGS=""
• You can pass your own flags to makefile with CFLAGS="" and/or LDFLAGS="" (this will supersede the defaults one)
• Audio calling support is automatically enabled if all dependencies are found

Troubleshooting

If your default prefix is "/usr/local" and you get the error:

error while loading shared libraries: libtoxcore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you can try fix it running sudo ldconfig. If that doesn't fix it, run:

echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
sudo ldconfig

Settings

After running Toxic for the first time an empty file called toxic.conf should reside in your home configuration directory ("~/.config/tox" for Linux users). For an example on how to use this config file to save settings such as auto-logging and time format see: misc/toxic.conf.