---
Type: desktop-application
ID: net.zoite.Zoitechat
Package: zoitechat
ProjectLicense: GPL-2.0+
Name:
sv: ZoiteChat
lv: ZoiteChat
et: ZoiteChat
es: ZoiteChat
pt: ZoiteChat
sr-Cyrl: ХексЧет
sq: ZoiteChat
zh-Hans-CN: ZoiteChat
tr: ZoiteChat
lt: ZoiteChat
nb: ZoiteChat
it: ZoiteChat
pl: ZoiteChat
sl: ZoiteChat
fi: ZoiteChat
C: ZoiteChat
id: ZoiteChat
cs: ZoiteChat
el: ZoiteChat
en-GB: ZoiteChat
fr: ZoiteChat
eu: ZoiteChat
ja-JP: ZoiteChat
pt-BR: ZoiteChat
de: ZoiteChat
ko: 헥스채트
ca: ZoiteChat
da: ZoiteChat
ru: ZoiteChat
gl: ZoiteChat
Summary:
eu: IRC bezeroa
nb: IRC-klient
de: IRC-Client
pt: Cliente de IRC
gl: Cliente de IRC
pt-BR: Cliente IRC
ru: IRC Клиент
el: Πελάτης IRC
C: IRC Client
fr: Client IRC
da: IRC-klient
lt: IRC klientas
ca: Client IRC
sv: IRC klient
ja-JP: IRCクライアント
sq: Klient IRC
it: Client IRC
es: Cliente de IRC
ko: IRC 클라이언트
sl: IRC Client
sr-Cyrl: ИРЦ клијент
tr: IRC İstemcisi
cs: IRC klient
zh-Hans-CN: IRC 客户端
fi: IRC-asiakassovellus
et: IRC klient
lv: IRC klients
en-GB: IRC Client
hu: IRC kliens
pl: Klient IRC
id: Klien IRC
Description:
C: >-
<p>ZoiteChat is an easy to use yet extensible IRC Client based on Hexchat. It allows you to securely join multiple networks and talk
to users privately or in channels using a customizable interface. You can even transfer files.</p>
<p>ZoiteChat supports features such as: DCC, SASL, proxies, spellcheck, alerts, logging, custom themes, and Python/Perl scripts.</p>
Developer:
id: net.zoite
name:
C: ZoiteChat
Categories:
- Network
- IRCClient
Keywords:
C:
- IM
- Chat
es:
- IM
- Chat
lv:
- TZ
- Tērzēšana
sq:
- IM
- Fjalosje
fi:
- IM
- Chat
- pikaviestin
- keskustelu
ca:
- MI
- Xat
it:
- IM
- Chat
- Messaggistica Istantanea
- IRC
en-GB:
- IM
- Chat
tr:
- IM
- Sohbet
de:
- IM
- Chat
fr:
- IM
- Chat
nb:
- IM
- Chat
lt:
- IM
- Pokalbiai
sl:
- IM
- Klepet
pt:
- IM
- Chat
el:
- IM
- Chat
id:
- IM
- Obrolan
cs:
- " IM"
- Chat
sr:
- ИМ
- Ћаскање
pl:
- IM
- Chat
sv:
- IM
- Chatt
eu:
- IM
- Chat
- Txat
pt-BR:
- IM
- Chat
zh-CN:
- IM
- 聊天
ko:
- IM
- 인스턴트 메신저
- Chat
- 대화
da:
- IM
- Chat
ru:
- IM
- Чат
Url:
homepage: https://zoitechat.org
bugtracker: https://github.com/zoitechat/zoitechat
help: https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/
Icon:
cached:
- name: zoitechat_net.zoite.Zoitechat.png
width: 48
height: 48
- name: zoitechat_net.zoite.Zoitechat.png
width: 64
height: 64
- name: zoitechat_net.zoite.Zoitechat.png
width: 128
height: 128
remote:
- url: net/zoite/Zoitechat/dc797afdf700eda1cceecf3158dcfb32/icons/128x128/zoitechat_net.zoite.Zoitechat.png
width: 128
height: 128
stock: net.zoite.Zoitechat
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- net.zoite.Zoitechat.desktop
Provides:
ids:
- zoitechat.desktop
mediatypes:
- x-scheme-handler/irc
- x-scheme-handler/ircs
Screenshots:
- default: true
caption:
es: Ventana principal de charla
sv: Primärt chattfönster
pt: Janela de Chat Principal
zh-Hans-CN: 主聊天窗口
sq: Dritarja Kryesore e Fjalosjeve
en-GB: Main Chat Window
tr: Ana Sohbet Penceresi
lt: Pagrindinis pokalbių langas
nb: Hovedsludrevinduet
fr: Fenêtre de conversation principale
pl: Główne okno czatu
C: Main Chat Window
el: Κεντρικό Παράθυρο Συζήτησης
cs: Hlavní okno chatu
de: Hauptchatfenster
it: Finestra di chat principale
pt-BR: Janela principal de bate-papo
ko: 주 대화 창
ca: Finestra de xat principal
da: Primære chatvindue
ru: Главное окно чата
thumbnails:
- url: net/zoite/Zoitechat/dc797afdf700eda1cceecf3158dcfb32/screenshots/image-1_752x431@1.png
width: 752
height: 431
- url: net/zoite/Zoitechat/dc797afdf700eda1cceecf3158dcfb32/screenshots/image-1_624x358@1.png
width: 624
height: 358
- url: net/zoite/Zoitechat/dc797afdf700eda1cceecf3158dcfb32/screenshots/image-1_224x128@1.png
width: 224
height: 128
source-image:
url: net/zoite/Zoitechat/dc797afdf700eda1cceecf3158dcfb32/screenshots/image-1_orig.png
width: 1123
height: 645
Languages:
- locale: ast
percentage: 62
- locale: az
percentage: 38
- locale: be
percentage: 59
- locale: bg
percentage: 48
- locale: ca
percentage: 85
- locale: cs
percentage: 83
- locale: da
percentage: 99
- locale: de
percentage: 100
- locale: el
percentage: 73
- locale: en_GB
percentage: 100
- locale: en_US
percentage: 100
- locale: es
percentage: 99
- locale: et
percentage: 61
- locale: eu
percentage: 51
- locale: fi
percentage: 71
- locale: fr
percentage: 99
- locale: gl
percentage: 64
- locale: gu
percentage: 51
- locale: hi
percentage: 50
- locale: hu
percentage: 81
- locale: id
percentage: 85
- locale: it
percentage: 100
- locale: ja_JP
percentage: 74
- locale: kn
percentage: 62
- locale: ko
percentage: 99
- locale: lt
percentage: 76
- locale: lv
percentage: 52
- locale: mk
percentage: 60
- locale: ms
percentage: 34
- locale: nb
percentage: 99
- locale: nl
percentage: 62
- locale: pa
percentage: 57
- locale: pl
percentage: 90
- locale: pt
percentage: 99
- locale: pt_BR
percentage: 99
- locale: ru
percentage: 87
- locale: sk
percentage: 50
- locale: sl
percentage: 51
- locale: sq
percentage: 99
- locale: sr
percentage: 79
- locale: sr@latin
percentage: 70
- locale: sv
percentage: 99
- locale: th
percentage: 67
- locale: tr
percentage: 99
- locale: uk
percentage: 62
- locale: vi
percentage: 62
- locale: wa
percentage: 26
- locale: zh_CN
percentage: 99
- locale: zh_TW
percentage: 58
Releases:
- version: "2.18.0"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1776643200
description:
C: >-
<p>Tabs and navigation:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added optional close buttons on tabs.</li>
<li>Added Ctrl+W to close tabs and Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen recently closed tabs.</li>
<li>Improved channel tree behavior by ignoring collapsed parent selections.</li>
</ul>
<p>Themes and appearance:</p>
<ul>
<li>Expanded theme import support with .hct support in colors.conf import.</li>
<li>Added pevent import support from .hct theme files and improved import result messaging.</li>
<li>Expanded palette and selection CSS styling for better theme consistency.</li>
<li>Auto-sizes the topic bar to wrapped text for better multi-line topic handling.</li>
</ul>
<p>Links and text handling:</p>
<ul>
<li>Refined command-character parsing when pasting path-like text.</li>
<li>Tightened topic link detection and opening rules.</li>
<li>Added Public Suffix List validation for host links to reduce bad link matches.</li>
</ul>
<p>Packaging and platform integration:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sanitized the Linux open environment for AppImage builds and added safer fallback handling.</li>
<li>Labeled Windows installer runtimes with exact versions.</li>
<li>Fixed the notification icon and corrected the Flatpak screenshot asset.</li>
<li>Improved AppStream metainfo validation.</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.18.0~pre6"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1774828800
description:
C: >-
<p>GTK theme and UI:</p>
<ul>
<li>Applied app theme CSS to the menubar consistently across the app.</li>
<li>Restored horizontal separator lines in menus.</li>
<li>Fixed duplicate dialog buttons persisting in the UI.</li>
<li>Fixed GTK auto-replace cursor snapback.</li>
<li>Restored hiding of formatting control bytes so only formatted output is shown.</li>
<li>Fixed xtext link hit-testing coordinates.</li>
<li>Fixed short-palette fallback clobbering tab colors.</li>
<li>Added a None option for resetting the GTK3 theme back to system/default behavior.</li>
<li>Wrapped the topic bar in a scroller with bounded height.</li>
<li>Fixed fallback GTK menu highlight states.</li>
<li>Applied configured font preferences to the topic bar, channel tree, user list, and input box.</li>
<li>Removed unused UI icons.</li>
<li>Added close buttons to tabs.</li>
</ul>
<p>Preferences and search:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lazy-loads Preferences pages on first open for faster dialog startup.</li>
<li>Added channel-only mode to Ctrl+F search.</li>
</ul>
<p>Security and certificates:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added one-click client SSL certificate tools, including generation with P-256 certificates.</li>
<li>Added client SSL certificate import support in the network editor.</li>
</ul>
<p>Windows and packaging:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved Windows installer VC++ redistributable handling by failing loudly when missing and using the official Microsoft
download endpoint.</li>
<li>Fixed Windows locale path resolution in both GTK and text frontends.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added 99-color support.</li>
<li>Disabled disk info in sysinfo.</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.18.0~pre5"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1774137600
description:
C: >-
<p>Preferences and config saving:</p>
<ul>
<li>Overhauled preferences/config saving: fully staged and transactional, debounced with flush on close, write failures
now surfaced.</li>
</ul>
<p>GTK theme and UI:</p>
<ul>
<li>Overhauled GTK theme handling: live preview, correct colour reset persistence, proper <code>file://</code> import paths,
consistent menubar CSS.</li>
<li>Fixed GTK entry scroll artifact in the input box.</li>
<li>Split topic/mode rows in channel bar, tighten spacing, persist userlist column widths.</li>
<li>Preserve saved right-pane size on first layout.</li>
<li>Fixed sounds prefs section.</li>
<li>Fixed chanview tree layout and header alignment; tighten topic URL hit-testing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tray:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hardened tray menu lifetime; fixed stale pointer crash on menu destruction.</li>
<li>Fixed AppIndicator tray init for Wayland/source builds; skip redundant X11 tray probe for AppIndicator builds.</li>
</ul>
<p>Build and packaging:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dropped <code>realpath()</code> in favour of GLib-only absolute path build.</li>
<li>Made About dialog links explicit; added GPL licence URL.</li>
<li>Added licence headers to new source files.</li>
<li>Windows installer: fixed VC++ redist URL, added non-plugin download fallback, switched to registry-based runtime detection.</li>
<li>Made <code>libayatana-appindicator</code> a required dep in PKGBUILD.</li>
<li>Cleaned up Meson libperl detection.</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.18.0~pre4"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1773446400
description:
C: >-
<p>UI fixes, topic bar improvements, and selection styling updates:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a regression where <code>Ctrl+A</code> could incorrectly mark you away instead of selecting all text.</li>
<li>Fixed a crash when toggling the GUI with <code>F9</code> or the menu toggle action.</li>
<li>Fixed sidebar collapse behavior on fresh installs.</li>
<li>Added multiline topic bar support with clickable URLs.</li>
<li>Improved GTK selection styling so text selection is shown visually in the topic bar and chat input box.</li>
</ul>
ContentRating:
oars-1.1:
social-chat: intense