Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal

Whatsapp

Type in a terminal 

sudo -H gedit /usr/share/applications/whatsapp-webapp.desktop

Copy following text to opened screen

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=WhatsApp
GenericName=WhatsApp
Comment=WhatsApp desktop webapp
#Exec=webapp-container --store-session-cookies --webappUrlPatterns=https?://*.whatsapp.com/* --user-agent-string='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.44' https://web.whatsapp.com %u
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --app=https://web.whatsapp.com/
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;
# If you want icon, type path of icon
# Icon=
Categories=Network;Application;
Keywords=WhatsApp;webapp;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=WhatsApp
StartupWMClass=web.whatsapp.com

type whatsapp in the dash and start the programm, and connect it to your whatsapp on your telephone. You can make the whatsapp icon favourite in your dash for easy starting.

Telegram


there are 4 ways to install telegram:

  1. download from the official site https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux or https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux32
  2. sudo snap install telegram-desktop
  3. add the ppa and install from repository:
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/telegram
  • sudo apt update && sudo apt install telegram

4. Install Telegram from flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.telegram.desktop

Signal


# NOTE: These instructions only work for 64 bit Debian-based
# Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint etc.

# 1. Install our official public software signing key

sudo apt update

wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc |\  sudo apt-key add -

# 2. Add our repository to your list of repositories

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" |\  sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list

# 3. Update your package database and install signal

sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop