tox - instant messaging, video chat

[GekkoP]

https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

To be honest I still have to try it, but a FOSS Skype alternative.

[machinebacon]

This is great!! Thanks Gekko!

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wget https://repo.tox.im/tox-apt.sh && sudo bash ./tox-apt.sh

[GekkoP]

^ Great.
I'll try it out later because it may be exactly what I am looking for video chats with parents and friends.

[GekkoP]

After doing what bacon suggests, just do:

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sudo apt-get install venom

Client is up. Video is not working though. I'll see what I can do.

[wuxmedia]

^ beat me to it gekko!

10mb, pretty light, just need some tox ID's to test it 8)

Edit, neither my video or sound works... 8)

[GekkoP]

^ in my case, the webcam issue is not tox/venom related. I got no video with guvcview so I'll have to fix that first.

Edit: this works, I can see my pretty face captured by the webcam.

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mpv tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0

So yes, I think it is tox/venom related then.

[machinebacon]

my id is my nick ;)

seems I don't have audio/video neither....

[wuxmedia]

said something about no pulserc ?

I think you need an ID number here's mine:
my nick is my nick here too

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00BA0E082BCED4DE3BB17CC1195726047679D0DFB064995D7A4C639F0924FF2E65FE4687CABE

[machinebacon]

Oh that's how it works! :)

Yeah it says something about pulserc (though I have pulse running here)

Okay let's see if I can add you :)

[wuxmedia]

added.
live alsa beer challenges!1!1!!

[machinebacon]

And sorry wux for crashing you :D I just wanted to send a file. Apparently no worky.

But looks neat.

[wuxmedia]

seems to spend a fair bit of time crashing :(

[GekkoP]

^ yes.
I wrote to the Venom developer about video issues for now.

[machinebacon]

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https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/uTox_linux_i686/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox/utox_linux_i686.tar.xz

then unp and ./utox

Thanks :)

[machinebacon]

now i am completely confuzious:

utox gave me a new id: 479C34C23BD0A38F6DCD566FBF8E81E82E8718D3E7E6BB3264A352620BF5CD38AC33E7153F6F

whatever.

ANYWAYS: utox works! could hear and see myself (not that it was a pleasure!)

@wux: there is CLI -> https://wiki.tox.im/Toxic

Now does that mean that and ID is only valid for one app, one session, or what? :D

[GekkoP]

^ Yes yes yes! Video working fine here too. Thanks.
Only thing left: messy fonts.

[machinebacon]

Nimbus Sans L for me works fine.

[GekkoP]

^ I have fonts-texgyre and ttf-liberation, but still looks messy. :(

[machinebacon]

do you have the right fonts set here:

cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[GekkoP]

^ Mmm, I got Liberation Sans 10 in there. Venom/utox are the only gtk3-related softwares here.

Edit: tried different fonts (DejaVu, Droid, Gentium, Inconsolata). Nothing. I may be missing some gtk3 stuff, because with gtk2 every font works fine.