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qTox User Manual
Index
User Profile
Your User Profile contains everything you share with other people on Tox. You can open it by clicking the picture on the top right corner. It contains the following settings:
Public Information
- Name: This is your nickname which everyone who has your Tox ID can see.
- Status: You can post a status message here, which again everyone on who has your ToxID can see.
Tox ID
The long code in hexadecimal format is your Tox ID, share this with everyone you want to talk to. Click it to copy it to your clipboard. Your Tox ID is also shown as QR-Code to easily share it with friends over a smartphone.
The "Save image" button saves the QR-Code into a image file, while the "Copy image" button copies into your clipboard.
Profile
qTox allows you to use multiple Tox IDs with different profiles, which each can have different nicknames, status messages and friends.
- Current profile: Shows the filename which stores your information.
- Current profile locatation: Shows the path to the profile file.
- Rename This button allows you to rename your profile. Your nickname and profile name don't have to be the same.
- Delete This button deletes your profile and the corresponding chat history.
- Export Allows you to export your profile in a format compatible with other Tox clients. You can also manually backup your *.tox files.
- Logout Close your current profile and show the login window.
- Remove password If you set a password for your profile, you can remove it with this button.
- Change password If you set a password for your profile, you can change the password with this button. You can also set a password for unencrypted profiles here.
Settings
General
General Settings
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Language: Changes which language the qTox interface uses.
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Autostart: If set, qTox will start when you login on your computer. qTox will also autmatically open the profile which was active when you ticked the checkbox, but this only works if your profile isn't encrypted (has no password set).
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Light icon: If set, qTox will use a different icon, which is easier to see on black backgrounds.
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Show system tray icon: If set, qTox will show its icon in your system tray.
- Start in tray: On start, qTox will only show its tray icon and no window.
- Minimize to tray: The minimize button on the top right, will minimize qTox to its tray icon. There won't be a taskbar item.
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Auto away after (0 to disable): After the specified amount of time, qTox will set your Status to "Away". A setting of 0 will never change your status.
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Default directory to save files: You can set the directory where qTox puts files you recieved here.
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Autoaccept files: If set, qTox will automatically accept file transfers and put them in the directory specified above.
Chat
- Play sound: If checked, qTox will play a sound when you get a new message.
- Open window: If checked, the qTox window will be opened. If you use the multiple windows mode, see Multi Window Mode for details.
- Focus window: If checked, the qTox window will additionally be focused.
- Show contacts' status changes: If set, qTox will show contact status changes in your chat window.
- Group chats always notify: If set, qTox will notify you on every new message in a groupchat.
- Place groupchats at top of friend list: If checked, your groupchats will be at the top of the contacts list, else they will be sorted with your other contacts.
- Faux offline messaging: If enabled, qTox will attempt to send messages when a currently offline contact comes online again.
- Compact contact list: If set, qTox will use a contact list layout which takes up less screen space.
- Multiple windows mode: If enabled, the qTox user interface will be split into multiple independent windows. For details see Multi Window Mode.
- Open each chat in an individual window: If checked, a new window will be opened for every chat you open. If you manually grouped the chat into another window, the window which hosts the chat will be focused.
Theme
- Use emoticons: If enabled, qTox will replace simleys ( e.g. :-) ) with Unicode emoticons.
- Smiley Pack: You can choose from different sets of shiped emoticon styles.
- Emoticon size: You can change the size of the emoticons here.
- Style: Changes the appearance of qTox.
- Theme color: Changes the colors qTox uses.
- Timestamp format: Change the format in which qTox displays message timestamps.
- Date format: Same as above for the date.
Connection Settings
- Enable IPv6 (recommended): If enabled, qTox will use IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, whichever is available. If disabled, qTox will only use IPv4.
- Enable UDP (recommended): If enabled, qTox will use TCP and UDP protocols. If disabled, qTox will only use TCP, which is supposed to lower the amount of traffic, but is also slower and puts more load on other network participants.
Most users will want the two settings enabled, but if qTox crashes your router, you can try to disable them.
- Proxy type: If you want to use a proxy, set the type here. "None" disables the proxy.
- Address: If you use a proxy, enter the address here.
- Port: If you use a proxy, enter the port here.
- Reconnect: Reconnect to the tox network, e.g. if you changed the proxy settings.
Privacy
- Send typing notifications: If enabled, notify your chat partner when you are currently typing.
- Keep chat history: If enabled, qTox will save your sent and recieved messages. Encrypt your profile, if you want to encrypt the chat history.
NoSpam
NoSpam is a feature of Tox to prevent someone spamming you with friend requests. If you get spammed, enter or generate a new NoSpam value, this will alter your Tox ID. You don't need to tell your existing contacts your new Tox ID, but you have to tell new contacts your new Tox ID. Your Tox ID can be found in your User Profile
Audio/Video
Audio Settings
- Playback device: Select the device qTox should use for all audio output (notifications, calls,..).
- Playback: Here you can adjust the playback volume to your needs.
- Capture device: Select the device qTox should use for audio input in calls.
- Microphone: Set the input volume of your microphone with this slider. When you are talking normaly, the display should be in the green range.
- Filter audio If enabled, qTox will try to remove noise and echo from your audio input.
Video Settings
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Video device: Select the video device qTox should use for video calls. "None" will show a dummy picture to your chat partner. "Desktop" will stream the content of your screen.
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Resolution: You can select from the available resolutions and framerates here. Higher resolutions provide more quality, but if the bandwidth of your connection is low, the video may get choppy.
If you set up everything correctly, you should see the preview of your video device in the box.
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Rescan devices Use this button to search for newly attached devices, e.g. you plugged in a webcam.
Advanced
- Make Tox portable: If enabled, qTox will load/save user data from the working directory, instead of
~/.config/tox/. - Reset to default settings Use this button to delete any changes you made to the qTox settings.
About
- Version The version of qTox and the libraries it depends on. Please append this information to every bug report.
- License The license under which the code of qTox is available.
- Authors The people who developed this shiny piece of software.
- Known Issues Links to our list of known issues and improvements.
Groupchats
Groupchats are a way to talk with multiple friends at the same time, like when you are standing together in a group. To create a groupchat click the groupchat icon and set a name. Now you can invite people by right clicking on the contact and selecting "Invite to group". Currently, if the last person leaves the chat, it is closed and you have to create a new one. Sending files and videochats are currently unsupported in groupchats.
Multi Window Mode
If you activated this mode in the settings, qTox will seperate its main window into a contact list and chat windows, which allows you to have multiple conversations on your screen on the same time. Additionally you can manually group chats into a window by dragging and dropping them onto eachother.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The following shortcuts are currently supported:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Arrow up |
Paste last sent message |
CTRL + SHIFT + L |
Clear chat |
CTRL + q |
Quit qTox |
CTRL + Page Down |
Switch to the next contact |
CTRL + Page Up |
Switch to the previous contact |
CTRL + TAB |
Switch to the next contact |
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB |
Switch to the previous contact |