WasIstLos

WasIstLos

An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application for Linux.

Note

We are looking for flatpak and snap maintainers. Please get in touch if you are interested!

About

WasIstLos is an unofficial WhatsApp desktop application written in C++ with the help of gtkmm and WebKitGtk libraries. Check out wiki for further details.

Features

• Features come with WhatsApp Web
  • WhatsApp specific keyboard shortcuts work with Alt key instead of Cmd
• Zoom in/out
• System tray icon
• Notification sounds
• Autostart with system
• Fullscreen mode
• Show/Hide headerbar by pressing Alt+H
• Localization support in system language
• Spell checking in system language. You need to install the corresponding dictionary to get this working i.e. hunspell-en_us package for US English
• Open chat by phone number

Using WasIstLos

The application is available from a number of Linux distributions:

Dependencies

• cmake >= 3.12
• intltool
• gtkmm-3.0
• webkit2gtk-4.1
• ayatana-appindicator3-0.1
• libcanberra
• libhunspell (Optional for spell checking)

Build & Run

Development

# Create a debug build directory and go into it
mkdir -p build/debug && cd build/debug

# Build the project
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../..
make -j4

# Optionally, to update the default translation file
make update-translation

# Run
./wasistlos

Local installation

# Run inside the build directory once the application is built
# You'll probably need administrator privileges for this
make install

Uninstall

# Run inside the build directory if you want to uninstall all files
# install_manifest.txt file is created when you run make install
xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

Packaging

Debian

# Don't forget to update the version number (0) in debian/changelog before this
# Build the package.
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -ui

Snap

# Build the package. Pass --use-lxd option in a virtual environment
snapcraft

AppImage

# Make sure that the application is installed into the `<Project Root>/AppDir` directory
make install DESTDIR=../../AppDir

# Build the package
appimage-builder --skip-test --recipe ./appimage/AppImageBuilder.yml

Contributing

Please read contributing.

Code Contributors