whatsapp-for-linux

An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application written in C++.

Features

• Features come with whatsapp web except audio and image capture
• Zoom in/out
• System tray icon
• Fullscreen mode
• Show/Hide headerbar by pressing Alt+H
• 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.

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

Debian

Run dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -ui.

Snap

Run snapcraft. Pass --use-lxd option in a virtual environment.

Contributing

Please read contributing.

Code Contributors