/whatsapp-for-linux

An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application for Linux.

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

whatsapp-for-linux

An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application written in C++.

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App Window

Features

  • Features come with whatsapp web except audio and image capture
  • Zoom in/out
  • System tray icon
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Show/Hide titlebar on Alt key
  • Spell check in system language. You might need to install the corresponding dictionary to get this working i.e. aspell-en package for English

Using whatsapp-for-linux

Check out releases for available packages.

Contributing

Please read contributing.

Dependencies

  • cmake >= 3.8
  • gtkmm-3.0
  • webkit2gtk-4.0
  • appindicator3-0.1

Build & Run

Development

  1. Create a debug build directory and go into it. mkdir -p build/debug && cd build/debug
  2. Build cmake. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../..
  3. Build makefile. make
  4. Run. ./whatsapp-for-linux

Local installation

If you want to install it locally, use make install inside the build directory after building (You'll probably need administrator privileges for this).

Packaging

In order for the packages to get the version information, build cmake before generating any package.

Debian

Run dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -ui.

Snap

Run snapcraft.