TOXIC(1)

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🌸 NAME (aka the TOXIC(1) manual, bestie) 🌸

okay so welcome to the TOXIC(1) page in the Toxic Manual 💖 toxic is an ncurses-based instant messaging client for Tox — and the way that this used to live in the Tox core repository but is now a standalone application? iconic. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

toxic [-f data-file] [-x] [-4] [-c config-file] [-n nodes-file] [-h]

yes bestie, the synopsis literally includes -x; I’m leaving it exactly as written. no cap. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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 application. it’s giving terminal chat main character energy, fr fr. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -4, --ipv4 — Force IPv4 connection 🔥
  • -b, --debug — Enable stderr for debugging. Redirect output to avoid breaking the curses interface and better capture messages. 👀
  • -c, --config config-file — Use specified config-file instead of ~/.config/tox/toxic.conf 🎀
  • -d, --default-locale — Use default locale 🌍
  • -e, --encrypt-data — Encrypt an unencrypted data file. An error will occur if this option is used with an encrypted data file. 🚨
  • -f, --file data-file — Use specified data-file instead of ~/.config/tox/toxic_profile.tox 💾
  • -h, --help — Show help message 🫶
  • -l, --logging — Enable toxcore logging to stderr 🪵
  • -n, --nodes nodes-file — Use specified nodes-file for DHT bootstrap nodes instead of ~/.config/tox/DHTnodes.json 🌐
  • -N, --nodes-url nodes-list-url — Use specified nodes-list-url for DHT bootstrap nodes status info instead of https://nodes.tox.chat/json 🔗
  • -o, --noconnect — Do not connect to the DHT network 🚫
  • -p, --SOCKS5-proxy — Use a SOCKS5 proxy: Requires [IP] [port] 🧦
  • -P, --HTTP-proxy — Use a HTTP proxy: Requires [IP] [port] 🌐
  • -r, --namelist — Use specified nameservers list 📝
  • -s --netstats — Dump network statistics to log on exit: Requires [path] (only available if toxic is compiled with experimental features enabled) 📊
  • -t, --force-tcp — Force TCP connection (use this with proxies) 🔌
  • -T, --tcp-relay — Act as a TCP relay server for the network (Note: this uses significantly more bandwidth) 🚀
  • -u, --unencrypt-data — Unencrypt a data file. A warning will appear if this option is used with a data file that is already unencrypted. ⚠️

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.config/tox/DHTnodes.json — Default location for list of DHT bootstrap nodes (list obtained from https://nodes.tox.chat). This list is automatically updated. See toxic.conf(5) for details on controlling the update frequency. 🌈
  • ~/.config/tox/toxic_profile.tox — Savestate which contains your personal info (nickname, Tox ID, contacts, etc) 💖
  • ~/.config/tox/toxic.conf — Configuration file. See toxic.conf(5) for more details. 🛠️
  • /usr/share/toxic/toxic.conf.example — Configuration example. 📄

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie, these are the known gremlins, and I’m keeping them exactly as written:

  • -Unicode characters with a width larger than 1 column may cause strange behaviour.
  • -Screen flickering sometimes occurs on certain terminals.
  • -Resizing the terminal window when a game window is open will break things.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

JFreegman <JFreegman@gmail.com> 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

toxic.conf(5) 💖

~ 💖 toxic 0.16.3_r2322 · 2023-03-04 · that’s the whole manual, mwah 💖 ~

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