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#1 2026-02-23 02:54:16
- brocashelm
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HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
Saddened by the abandonment of HexChat by upstream? Say no more: ZoiteChat to the rescue.
It looks and feels the same as HexChat did, except it's ported from GTK2 to GTK3.
You can download the source code or get it for your platform (on GNU/Linux, AppImage and Flatpak binaries are the official builds) here.
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#2 2026-02-23 03:14:37
- ralph.ronnquist
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
Beware! That's still on github
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#3 2026-02-23 05:51:08
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
github is a popular forge, which is good for discovery and visibility of a project.
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#4 2026-02-23 06:06:21
- ralph.ronnquist
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
github = Microsoft. Stay away!
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#5 2026-02-23 06:15:12
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
i have all my repos in github, been mirroring to gitlab, codeberg and more recently the devuan gitea instance, i'm not getting any repo off github cuz it does help visibility but i do have to update all my readme files with links to the mirrors.
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#6 2026-02-23 06:28:18
- ralph.ronnquist
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
Everyone makes their own choice about what is important.
I jumped off github when I learnt they sold out to Microsoft.
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#7 2026-02-23 08:21:44
Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
This does look exciting! Have grabbed the Appimage and sofar it is working well. Looks like my Hexchat custom theme config will work with this as well. Good find!
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#8 2026-02-26 00:48:44
- greenjeans
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Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
Sweet! I do prefer Hexchat for IRC, was sad to hear it's no longer in the repo.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/ New Vuu-do isos uploaded March 2026!
Vuu-do GNU/Linux, minimal Devuan-based Openbox and Mate systems to build on. Also a max version for OB.
Devuan 5 mate-mini iso, pure Devuan, 100% no-vuu-do. 
Devuan 6 version also available for testing.
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#9 2026-03-30 02:48:33
Re: HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat
Hi all, I have been using Zoitechat since It was posted here. I upgraded from 2.17.4 to 2.18.0 pre5 about a week ago now and it is working very well, version 2.18.0 pre5 supports gtk3 theme switching. There is a bug with the spell check underlining which the dev knows about and is working on it.
I'm using the Appimage on Devuan, but also testing the Snap build as well. Of course I don't think Snaps will be much of an interest here.
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