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Open an issue, send me an [email](mailto:info@s-r-n.de) or fork this project and add it yourself.\n\n\n![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sieren/DeskAppForWhatsApp/master/media/screenmac.png \"Mac OSX \")\n![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sieren/DeskAppForWhatsApp/master/media/screengnome.png \"Ubuntu\")\n![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sieren/DeskAppForWhatsApp/master/media/screenwin.png \"Windows\")\n\n## How To Use It\n\nLaunch the application and authorize with WhatsApp on your phone by scanning the QR Code.\n\nTo start DeskApp for WhatsApp at boot (OS X):\n\n+ Go to **System Preferences** and **Users \u0026 Groups**\n+ Drag DeskAppForWhatsApp into the **Login Items** list\n\n## Note\nThis project does not attempt to reverse engineer the WhatsApp API or attempt to reimplement any part of the WhatsApp client's communications with the WhatsApp servers.  \n  \nAny communication between the user and WhatsApp servers is handled by WhatsApp Web itself; this is merely a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, more akin to a browser than any WhatsApp software.\n\n## Known Issues\nQt 5.5 currently does not support HiDPI properly.\nThus UI Elements may be shown too small on certain platforms (e.g. Linux) when in HiDPI\nmode.\nThis will be fixed once this project moves on to Qt 5.6.\n\n## Build\n+ Get a recent version of Qt (5.5+)  \n\n### Mac \u0026 Windows\n+ Use either QtCreator or create an XCode or Visual Studio Project with CMake or QMake.  \n```\nmkdir build \u0026\u0026 cd build  \ncmake ../ -G Xcode\n```\n\n### Linux\n+ Get the most recent [Qt Version](http://www.qt.io/download/)\n+ I advise to use `qmake` for now, as there have been a few minor problems with the cmake script.  \n```\ncd ./src  \nqmake -config release  \nmake  \n./DeskAppForWhatsApp\n```\n\n## License\nCopyright (c), 2015 Authors of the source code of this project\n\nThis program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify\nit under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by\nthe Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or\n(at your option) any later version.\n\nThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\nbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\nMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the\nGNU Lesser General Public License for more details.\n\nYou should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License\nalong with this program.  If not, see \u003chttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html\u003e.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsieren%2Fdeskappforwhatsapp","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fsieren%2Fdeskappforwhatsapp","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsieren%2Fdeskappforwhatsapp/lists"}