Mr. Whatsit

_{From Stranger Things S5}

Author: devlinman

About Whatsit

• A lightweight, native desktop client for WhatsApp Web built with Qt 6 and Qt WebEngine, and is NOT Electron-based.

• I have tried many Whatsapp web clients, but none of them are fast and light. None of them felt right...

• My setup is Arch-KDE Plasma-Wayland. If your setup is similar, the app should work well.

• In v3.x.x, additional features such as memory kill switch and custom app and tray icons, etc. You may call these features bloat, but I like to have those. If you don't want those, use lower versions of the app.

• If you want the minimal and bare version, use v1.0.1. Tray icon and Notifications are implemented in v2.0.0.

Features

• Native Qt 6 & Qt WebEngine-based
• Persistent login and chat storage
• Uses standard XDG directories
• KDE / Wayland friendly
• KDE Native Notification support
• Reduce memory usage & kill switch
• Opens whatsapp links from browsers to send messages
• Tray icon indicator for new messages

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Screenshots

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Wiki & Documentation

• Check the wiki docs for more information.

• Now, Notes is available from wiki docs - Notes.

• It contains important information about the working of the app.

• It is recommended to have a look.

Discussions

• Join the discussions on github to discuss new features, future directions, etc.
• Check Discussions.

Changelog

• Check CHANGELOG.md to see the updates and information about versions and releases (on the master branch).

Progress & Future

• Check the Project to track and find information about updates.

Contribute

• Check CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Install

Install From AUR

• Now available from AUR - whatsit-git. AUR Package.
• Builds from latest commit from git on default branch (master).

yay -S whatsit-git

Please refer to wiki docs for more information on Build & Install.

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LICENSES

• This project (binary/source code) is licensed under the MIT license, compliant with the third-party licenses mentioned below.
• Check Licensing information at LICENSE.
• Copyright Disclaimer: Whatsapp is not owned by me.
• The icons used in this project were grabbed off the internet.

tldr;

• Use this app at your own risk.
• I will not be liable for any damages.

Third-Party Licenses

• This project uses the Qt framework (Qt6), including QtWebEngine, by dynamically linking against them. Links: Qt Source code, Qt Downloads.

• Check Qt NOTICE for more information. Qt is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL v3).

• Check your Qt licensing using a command like this.

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