The application completely closes when I close its window.

Can it be made so that it continues to run in the background, like other chat apps do? This way I can continue receiving notifications when someone sends something.

So basically, just hide the window when closing it, but leave the application process running, just as if I were to press Ctrl+W

For some odd reason this app creates a second tray icon after a while.

You can close the app with either and the other one will disappear as well. An easy way to reproduce this issue instantly on GNOME at least is to start the app and then restart gnome-shell via Alt+F2 > r > Enter.

Fedora 35 with GNOME 41.4

Hi, the app is stuck at startup after updating it to the new version(1.2.3-1). I'm using the Flatpak build from the Flathub. Fedora Linux 36 (5.19.14-200.fc36.x86_64)

Description When sending a message containing a link, the preview generated for the link does not fetch any details about the linked webpage. When pasting a link in a chat from a phone or web.whatsapp.com, WhatsApp generates a preview for the url including a title and thumbnail. However, for links sent via whatsapp-desktop-linux, the preview only contains the url.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to any chat.
2. Copy a link to a website in the chat
3. Wait a couple of seconds for the preview to be generated
4. The preview merely has the URL, not the title or thumbnail.

Expected behavior The generated preview should have the title and thumbnail.

Screenshots Preview generated by whatsapp-desktop-linux:

Preview generated by WhatsApp on phone:

Environment

• Distro [ Fedora Linux 36 ]
• Package [ Flatpak]
• Desktop Environment or Window Manager [ Gnome 42.2 ]

Hi,

Can the default closing behavior be changed to minimize to tray? it's a bit annoying having the app close down when i press the X button, no way to minimize apart from right click tray icon -> minimize to tray...

After updating to KDE 5.26 from 5.25, this app seems to somehow crash the compositor. Shortly after opening it, new windows and popups get rendered black and the desktop becomes more and more unresponsive.

Interestingly it doesn't matter if you have desktop effects enabled or not (SHIFT+ALT+F12).

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 6.0.6-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Currently, the new tray icon is just working fine. It shows generic tooltip -

Can it be set as 'WhatsApp Desktop' using this.tray.setToolTip('WhatsApp Desktop') ? I asked before raising PR because I am not sure how this will work on Flatpak on different systems.

The tray icon showed in MX Linux, looks like does not have sufficient sharpness ? Now, this does not seem real issue to me, but how can I increase its resolution to sharpen it ?

Using the latest flatpak build on MX Linux 21 with xfce 4.16.

The tray icon works while closing, displaying conversations and minimizing, however it can't bring the program back to the desktop which makes it lose its whole purpose.

I am using gnome wayland while on void linux musl, additionally I am using a shell extension for displaying them.

gnome-shell version:GNOME Shell 41.4

Additionally, other tray icons work well, like nicotine+ or element and zim. I must mention that on click all of them display the option to "show" so that's what I use, whatsapp-desktop doesn't have that option, so the tray icon has no functionality for me.

I have a feature request to add a hide/show button on the tray icon, I could do it myself and create a pull request if I am pointed to which files I should modify to make this change.

Hello,

OS: Fedora 36 Dash extension: Dash to panel 50 Icon Tray extension: AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support

Is it possible to make the application minimize to the system tray when the window is closed (cross button) instead of exiting? Telegram and Discord work well with Icon Tray extension "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support"

Thank you very much for your work!

I got this in the latest flatpak update:

New io.github.mimbrero.WhatsAppDesktop permissions:
    file access [1]     dbus access [2]

    [1] host
    [2] com.canonical.indicator.application, org.ayatana.indicator.application,
        org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

I think access to common XDG directories should be enough.

I figured out that ctrl + - decreases the view zoom on the app just like a browser, but the problem is that ctrl + = doesn't increases back to normal. I even tried with ctrl + wheelup || wheeldown using the mouse wheel and didn't work both ways. Now my whatsapp is like 50% zoom view and I cannot come back to normal...

As you can see in the image above, everything is shrinked now. And is not because it has a higher screen resolution (that print was taken in my second monitor in which is not even a 1080p screen resolution).

I tried to log out my account and uninstalled the app from my computer but it's still the same way.

Being against the popular opinion, I'm one of those who doesn't want that green icon on my system tray. Is there an option to disable it or are there any plans to implement this function on the app? I dwngraded a couple versions in order to have the behavior I want on my system.

There is no way to right click to copy the message right now. The work around is to CTRL+C.

Possible implementation:
Using electron-context-menu to only show context menu when right clicking on text.

I think this way won't override the default right click behavior. (not sure)

Hi, very cool project. Only from my cents of trying to contribute as I would like to help without time to help with something really relevant. For some high aspect ratio screens, WhatsApp Web does not track the viewport fill. Create this extension for Firefox to enable this.

It would be interesting something like this to fill the entire apply screen.

I have recreated the "Computer not connected" site to display a warning when the host's computer is unable to connect to the internet. There are multiple ways to implement this feature, so I didn't do it myself, I'll leave the choice the maintainer.

1. Colors are consistent with the rest of the application.
2. CSS is set up to follow the user's theme.

Dark mode

Light mode