Make Whatsapp-Desktop works again
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5 years ago 3 |
To get it working again we must go to
"/opt/whatsapp-desktop/resources/app"
and edit the file "main.js" as root and look for the line that says
whatsApp.window.loadURL('https://web.whatsapp.com');
Just above this line we add this other
whatsApp.window.webContents.setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36");
Save main.js the file and close Wathsapp application if we have it open. Then we go to
"/home/myuser/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker" directory and empty it completely. Open a super user console and execute the command
chmod -w /home/myuser/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker/ -R with the application closed and the directory empty.
Start Whatsapp desktop and pair again. I hope it serves you. Sorry for my English. I use a translator
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Thanks for the tip.
This section was superfluous for me:
Then we go to
"/home/myuser/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker" directory and empty it completely. Open a super user console and execute the command
chmod -w /home/myuser/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker/ -R with the application closed and the directory empty.
It's good to know that there is a solution. For now I'll just run WhatsApp from Opera, it comes preinstalled, and it does work.
I will try this afternoon. Currently, whatsapp on desktop only work inside Firefox, with his whatsapp extension, but this desktop app do not detect my iPhone, nor my installed Firefox.