HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat

brocashelm · 2026-02-23 02:54:16

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.

Last edited by brocashelm (2026-02-23 05:22:11)

ralph.ronnquist · 2026-02-23 03:14:37

Beware! That's still on github

EDX-0 · 2026-02-23 05:51:08

github is a popular forge, which is good for discovery and visibility of a project.

ralph.ronnquist · 2026-02-23 06:06:21

github = Microsoft. Stay away!

EDX-0 · 2026-02-23 06:15:12

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.

ralph.ronnquist · 2026-02-23 06:28:18

Everyone makes their own choice about what is important.
I jumped off github when I learnt they sold out to Microsoft.

ruenoak · 2026-02-23 08:21:44

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!

greenjeans · 2026-02-26 00:48:44

Sweet! I do prefer Hexchat for IRC, was sad to hear it's no longer in the repo.

ruenoak · 2026-03-30 02:48:33

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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HexChat's GTK3 Successor: ZoiteChat

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