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For anyone who wants to make raw image data pasting work as mentioned here, please use webkit2gtk-imgpaste as the dependency.

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

Issues with nvidia. I had to edit the desktop file to run as

Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 whatsapp-for-linux %u

Now it seems to be fine.

For thoose who get error like this

whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.472: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libnuspell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.473: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libvoikko.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.474: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.480: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You can try to install libvoikko, hspell, nuspell, hunspell, aspell via:

sudo pacman -Syyu libvoikko hspell nuspell hunspell aspell

I get no way to log into the service on one of my machines, the app just starts "blank" https://i.imgur.com/DWVilFc.png I even nuked the .config entry.

Fiddling with the UI elements does nothing to get like a login prompt.

I only get two types 2 messages when running it from cli

libenchant-WARNING **: 13:00:52.005: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libnuspell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


TIMESTAMP: AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer

Manipulating the window is also incredible slow compared to any other windows

On KDE/Plasma successfully built with webkit2gtk-imgpaste but doesn't start with an error of

whatsapp-for-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.74: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Normally in an up to date system, icu75 (core/icu and multilib/lib32-icu) is installed. Solution is to build icu74 and install alongside icu75. More here

I have the same issue as deemon described

==> Validating source files with b2sums...
    whatsapp-for-linux ... NOT FOUND
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

This package consistently and continually sucks up ~2/3rds of a core's time and copious amounts of virtual memory (~100GB after 10 days of uptime) on my modern Intel laptop, draining my battery. The Webkit process seems to be the issue. Is there a known solution?