| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/whatsapp-for-linux.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | whatsapp-for-linux |
| Description: | An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application for linux |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux |
| Keywords: | messaging whatsapp |
| Licenses: | GPL3 |
| Submitter: | xeco |
| Maintainer: | bordam (AutoUpdateBot) |
| Last Packager: | AutoUpdateBot |
| Votes: | 62 |
| Popularity: | 0.72 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-09-09 15:32 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-10-20 07:57 (UTC) |
For anyone using Wayland and Nvidia drivers, you need to launch it with these env vars to launch correctly: GDK_BACKEND=x11 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
Also downgrade to the package versions @jose1711 mentioned, and add them to IgnorePkg to keep them there
Is this still working for everyone else? After a large package update, it's not working anymore here (might still be a coincidence).
The process starts but the window hangs on the loading screen with an error message in console (see here: https://imgur.com/a/pZrDchI )
Edit: webkit2gtk bug, now apparently fixed: https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux/issues/410
As of today, package seems work again without downgrading anything.
@buttcake It's webkit2gtk-4.1 that I've had to downgrade to version 2.44.4-1 So far it's the only thing I've had to downgrade it keep it working.
FYI the following downgrades worked for me:
webkit2gtk-4.1 2.44.4-1
libjxl 0.10.3-1
ffmpeg 2:7.0.2-2
@weaner This doesn't seem to work as of today.
I had to downgrade webkit2gtk to version 4.1-2.44.4-1 to get this to run.
Anyone else having problems with this since updating to webkitgtk-6.0 ? Epiphany / Gnome Web also has problems with the web whatsapp app.
@hmayer not really. Since using AUR in the first place has dependency to have base-devel installed (quote #1: "1. Ensure base-devel is installed."; quote #2: "2.1 Prerequisites
First, ensure that the necessary tools are installed by installing base-devel; this meta package has make and other tools needed for compiling from source, listed as dependencies. Note: Packages in the AUR assume that base-devel is installed in the build environment.").
Which incidentally has pkgconf included.
Missing pkgconf dependency
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xeco commented on 2022-09-28 21:43 (UTC) (edited on 2022-09-28 21:45 (UTC) by xeco)
For anyone who wants to make raw image data pasting work as mentioned here, please use webkit2gtk-imgpaste as the dependency.