GTK3-Style Tox-Client

Current build status:

Not ready for daily use ! Please wait for the first release (not alpha/beta).

• Questions and Answers
• Features
• Debug Features
• Audio Notifications
• How to install
  • ArchLinux
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Windows
• How to build
  • Linux Dependencies
• Screenshot

Translation Status

If you are a gettext-Master, please contact me !
I have some serious problems with this..

Questions and Answers

Why is the menu/popover cropped ?
Because you aren't using Wayland.
Can't be fixed for X11/Windows/Mac. Go ask Gtk+ why.
That said, gTox includes a popover hack...

X feature does not work...
Create an Issue or it will never work.

X feature does not work correctly on windows...
Create an Issue or it will never work.
But windows related bugs are very low priority here.

gTox doesn't work with X gtk-theme...
gTox is written for the default gtk/gnome 3 platform.
It does tweak styles a little and only really work when the default theme is used.
Depending on how hard it is to fix a "x theme" problem it might or might not get fixed.
Create an Issue.

Where is X feature ?
Create an Issue.
gTox only includes what I (KoKuToru) need/want the most.
This will hopefully change in the future.

How to install

Archlinux

MAKEPKG

yaourt gtox-git

Linux

Check "How to build" and make install

Or use AUR

Mac

No idea. Somehow get dependencies installed. Good luck.

Windows

Build on Linux with mingw-w64 like for Linux.
Or use this prebuild Docker-Image

Or download precompiled binaries, use at your own risk

How to build

First read https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/blob/master/INSTALL.md.
This project will need toxcore.

git clone https://github.com/KoKuToru/gTox.git
cd gTox
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../src
make

Linux Dependencies

gtkmm3, librsvg, gettext, gstreamermm, flatbuffers, util-linux for libuuid

Debug Features

gTox has special enviroment variables to help debugging

• GTOX_DBG_TRACKOBJ=1 enable object tracking, more or less a leak detector
• GTOX_DBG_LVL=x (x can be from 1 to 5) prints a function call tree

Features

For comparison https://wiki.tox.chat/clients#features

Special to gTox:

• Markup support bold(crtl+b), italic(crtl+i), underline(crtl+u)

Audio Notifications

git submodule update --init --recursive

This will download the audio files from the https://github.com/Tox/Sounds repository.
gTox will load these files from /usr/share/gtox/audio.
Make sure your files are correctly installed!

make install will copy the files into the right folder as long as your CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is correct.

Screenshot