Package Details: whatsapp-for-linux 1.7.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/whatsapp-for-linux.git (read-only, click to copy)
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: 60
Popularity: 1.01
First Submitted: 2020-09-09 15:32 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-20 07:57 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

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.

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xeco commented on 2023-01-13 08:37 (UTC)

@swsnr Done!

xeco commented on 2023-01-05 09:01 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for this @swsnr! @bordam Do you think you can do this by simply omitting the flag entirely for this and the other git package as well?

swsnr commented on 2023-01-01 16:12 (UTC)

This package currently builds with type Release, but the cmake packaging guidelines recommend to build with build type None, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines#Fixing_the_automatic_optimization_flag_override

Would you mind to change this?

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.

foggybrain commented on 2022-09-24 20:18 (UTC)

This program just locks up all the time. killall -s KILL whatsapp-for-linux is the only thing that closes it. Entering text is about all you can do.

MarcoDiFrancesco commented on 2022-09-15 06:59 (UTC)

Same problem here with Plasma. Locale is set to en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and Plasma settings do not change it, but running locale returned

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Temporary solution: run export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.

mdedetrich commented on 2022-09-03 10:28 (UTC)

@lugge

I think there is more to this issue then just broken locale's on your system. On my system I only have en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 enabled in /etc/locale.gen and my output for locale -a is

C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX

From what I have researched online, the C and C.UTF-8 locales where added into archlinux/manjaro because of systemd and it caused issues because some software cannot handle this properly and it appears that whatsapp-for-linux is one of those issues. I am running Plasma and my region is set to en_US.UTF-8 although everything else is de_DE.UTF-8 (but this shouldn't break anything)

lugge commented on 2022-07-02 19:51 (UTC) (edited on 2022-07-02 19:52 (UTC) by lugge)

@xeco: thanks for your help but, nevermind. It was my fault.

I discovered I had broken locales when in a Plasma session. Plasma sets some locales to en_DE which, obviously, doesn't make sense. When I override them in a shell, I can launch WA from this shell without issues.

So, anyone discovering

SettingMap: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::ConvertError'

Check your locales ;-)

xeco commented on 2022-07-02 16:48 (UTC) (edited on 2022-07-02 16:48 (UTC) by xeco)

@lugge, Can you try to delete ~/.config/whatsapp-for-linux/settings.conf file and let the application recreate it for you?

xeco commented on 2022-07-02 16:40 (UTC)

Hi @lugge. I am the author and also the maintainer. Honestly, I worked on this issue a lot and couldn't find anything suspicious in the code as it seems we are doing everything right. It could be that your system locale configuration is broken or wrong. I pinned the issue again on github if that provides any help to the users.

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