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Install google-chat-linux

An electron-base client for Google Hangouts Chat.

Install with winget
winget install --id squalou.google-chat-linux
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id squalou.google-chat-linux
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id squalou.google-chat-linux

About google-chat-linux

An electron-base client for Google Hangouts Chat.

What's new in 5.39.24-1

Bump to electron 39.0 as maintainance chore. Add option (in View menu) to disable use of Tray icon, as it's becoming useless (and painful) in some DE, for instance Cosmic.

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
5.39.24-1 Unknown Bump to electron 39.0 as maintainance chore. Add option (in View menu) to disable use of Tray icon, as it's becoming useless (and painful) in some DE, for instance Cosmic.
5.29.23-1 Unknown bump electron to 29 with better wayland support. Define ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto to take advantage of it. Values can be auto, wayland, x11, with auto being a reasonable default. Set it in .zshenv for instance, a...
5.27.23-6 Unknown empty releases for AUR packaging fix only
5.27.23-5 Unknown empty releases for AUR packaging fix only
5.27.23-2 Unknown Add a menu in 'View' to change tray icon theme.
5.27.23-1 Unknown Add support for several iconThemes, to match some 'monochrome' desktop themes. 3 values are supported: - default : the good old green ones - colored : the new colored google ones - mono : an attempt at monochrome icon th...
5.27.22-4 Unknown Fix systray notification (favicon name changed on google side) see #87
5.27.22-3 Unknown Add a nice pseudo-protocol support: open gchat:// urls in client instead of browser. (requires configutaion in browsers) See README.md "Open Google Chat URLs from web browser in the app".
5.27.22-2 Unknown fix #82 build rpm phase by adding fpm dependency, fix output file names, separate checksum files to make sure AUR scripts wont fail on Arch packaging system
5.27.22-1 Unknown Update electron to 27.0.3 #78
5.24.22-1 Unknown prepare 5.24.22-1 version with fix for #62 and electron update to 24.8.5
5.24.21-1 Unknown fix #69 : download of attached files in messages was broken by #67
5.24.20-2 Unknown new version with npm fix
5.24.20-1 Unknown fix #67 : prevent several instances from running simultaneaously
5.24.19-4 Unknown fix #66 clean MORE links from google-added-decorations before opening them
5.24.19-2 Unknown Issue #65 : fix open links in external browser
5.21.19-1 Unknown Release notes
5.21.18-3 Unknown Release notes
5.21.18-2 Unknown Release notes
5.15.17-1 Unknown Fix #40 : client breaks out to browser when login needed.