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Switching back to the system electron because of reported issues with the packaged electron. Also, fixed pkgver issue.

Build options by setting environment variables (or editing pkgbuild):

• _system_electron=false – Use the packaged electron
• _electron_version=29 – Use a specific system electron version (when default version has problems)
  • Or edit /usr/bin/beeper after install.
• _install_path=usr/lib – Use a different install path. Default is opt. (Do not include leading / and trailing /beeper.)

This is a self-updating package. It always downloads the latest available AppImage and applies the correct version number.

Please wait until over a month has passed since the last update before requesting version bumps.

Thanks, xiota, beeper can now run with sh being non-bash. :)

Script has been synced with the one in extra/electron. Both scripts require bash.

Fix the script, because it is not a shell script, IT IS A BASH SCRIPT; IT CONTAINS BASHISM

here's a simpler script I made:

#!/bin/sh
: "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:=$HOME/.config}"

_ELECTRON=/usr/bin/electron
_ASAR=/opt/beeper/resources/app.asar
_FLAGS_FILE=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/beeper-flags.conf

if [ -r "$_FLAGS_FILE" ]; then
  _USER_FLAGS=$(cat <"$_FLAGS_FILE")
fi

if [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ] || [ "$ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE" ]; then
    exec ${_ELECTRON} ${_ASAR} $_USER_FLAGS "$@"
else
    exec ${_ELECTRON} ${_ASAR} --no-sandbox $_USER_FLAGS "$@"
fi

@xiota "Unified Messenger" is nice! Yup, you could change the description as well :)

@gdamms The .desktop file has:

Comment=Beeper: Unified Messenger

Which would you prefer for generic name: "Chats", "Unified Messenger", "Messenger", ...?

I'm thinking about changing the description to something like, "A unified messaging application".

@xiota one of those?

• All your chats in one app
• All chats in one app
• One app, all chats
• All chats
• Chats

Personally, I prefer short generic names.

@gdamms What generic name do you propose?

Hi! Could you add a GenericName attribute to the [Desktop Entry] in the beeper.desktop file? It would make it pretier and more consistent with other applications in application launchers.

Switching back to the system electron because of reported issues with the packaged electron. Also, fixed pkgver issue.

Build options by setting environment variables (or editing pkgbuild):

• _system_electron=false – Use the packaged electron
• _electron_version=29 – Use a specific system electron version (when default version has problems)
  • Or edit /usr/bin/beeper after install.
• _install_path=usr/lib – Use a different install path. Default is opt. (Do not include leading / and trailing /beeper.)

The pkgver function is returning an invalid version at the moment, being the full name of the beeper appimage. Can we change the filtering so that this gets fixed? Thanks