WhatsUpp

Linux native desktop app/wrapper for https://web.whatsapp.com. Built with Electron.
This project continues the work of @Enrico204 and @bcalik

Features

• Linux only (ia32/amd64)
• Native notifications
• System tray icon
• Open links in default browser
• Badge with the number of notifications in the tray/dock/taskbar (#3)
• Focus on search bar with CTRL+F
• Phone info window (s/w versions, battery status, etc) (#4)
• Auto-launch on login (#5)
• Start minimized to tray icon
• Logging system (log to console and $HOME/.config/WhatsUpp/log.log)
• Apply custom CSS stylesheet (#6)
• Auto-hide menu bar
• Disabling GPU rendering (useful when dealing with bugged video drivers)
• A couple of things can be configured:
  • Toggle avatar visibility
  • Toggle preview of the messages visibility
  • Set the size for the media thumbs (#10)
  • Proxy settings for connection

Command line switches

--debug-log         Switch file's log level to "debug" (default: "warn")

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/alindt/WhatsUpp
cd WhatsUpp
yarn install
yarn build:$platform

$platform can be one of linux32, linux64 or linux (builds both).

You'll find artifacts in the ./dist/ directory.

Run on-the-fly (for devs)

Run yarn dev (in project root) instead of compiling the code each time.