VyQChat is a chat software designed for small home and office networks that operates on GNU Linux. It is serverless and allows you to communicate with others in your network effortlessly.
VyQChat is a software program designed for LANs. It is a real-time, text-based, serverless chat program that runs on Linux using the Qt/X11 library. VyQChat is almost 100% compatible with Vypress Chat(TM) for Windows. This program offers the ability to chat with friends on public or private channels, send and receive messages, and more. The GUI is user-friendly and allows you to do most things with your mouse. There is also optional sound support.
VyQChat has been written in C++ and requires the Qt library, version 3.x. Some key features of VyQChat include a UDP based protocol, support for multicast (planned for future release), almost full support for VypressChat 1.9.x protocol, easy-to-use GUI, support for the system tray, and easy configuration that tries to guess your local network IP address. Additionally, VyQChat supports sound through arts, libao, PC Speaker, and external command, and executing arbitrary scripts for certain chat events. Commands and chat history are accessible with up/down keys and history windows.
However, there are some limitations to this software program. File transfers, remote file execution, RSA keys, and digital signatures introduced in VypressChat 1.9.5, and Bulletin Board, also introduced in VypressChat 1.9.5, are not supported. Multicast is almost ready but not working for unknown reasons, so it is currently disabled.
In this release, a presence notify packet is sent to the requester only, not to all, which should stop flood alerts. A bug with zombie processes in libao and arts support was fixed and a memory leak on the 'play' command and external scripts execution was fixed as well. Furthermore, the autoconf script was updated with the latest version of the bnv_have_qt macro. In conclusion, VyQChat is a reliable chat program that is easy to use and provides several key features.
VyQChat has been written in C++ and requires the Qt library, version 3.x. Some key features of VyQChat include a UDP based protocol, support for multicast (planned for future release), almost full support for VypressChat 1.9.x protocol, easy-to-use GUI, support for the system tray, and easy configuration that tries to guess your local network IP address. Additionally, VyQChat supports sound through arts, libao, PC Speaker, and external command, and executing arbitrary scripts for certain chat events. Commands and chat history are accessible with up/down keys and history windows.
However, there are some limitations to this software program. File transfers, remote file execution, RSA keys, and digital signatures introduced in VypressChat 1.9.5, and Bulletin Board, also introduced in VypressChat 1.9.5, are not supported. Multicast is almost ready but not working for unknown reasons, so it is currently disabled.
In this release, a presence notify packet is sent to the requester only, not to all, which should stop flood alerts. A bug with zombie processes in libao and arts support was fixed and a memory leak on the 'play' command and external scripts execution was fixed as well. Furthermore, the autoconf script was updated with the latest version of the bnv_have_qt macro. In conclusion, VyQChat is a reliable chat program that is easy to use and provides several key features.
What's New
Version 0.2.8: N/A