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How do I install Signal in Ubuntu?

For all releases of Ubuntu 18.04 and newer: sudo snap install signal-desktop The snap is provided by the all-volunteer Snapcrafters team, a group of experienced and trusted experts from the Ubuntu ...
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How do I install Signal in Ubuntu?

Open your terminal and copy-paste the below command one by one sudo apt install curl curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://...
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How to install Telegram

For Ubuntu 17.04 and above: Telegram-desktop package is available in Official Ubuntu Repositories. So you can install this package with this command easily (without any need to PPA or any other ways)...
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How to install the Wire messenger desktop app/client on Ubuntu?

As Wire is getting more popular, there are more possibilities by now and as the updates are usually done within the Desktop app, it probably does not matter much which one you choose: Install via ...
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Messenger - JavaScript error in the main process

Temporal workaround that I found is to switch off the option "Check for Update Automatically" from the menu "App". This will suppress the message "JavaScript error in the main process". In result the ...
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How to autostart the Wire desktop client minimized?

More recent versions of the Wire desktop client have an option to launch it on startup: If that did not work as expected: For a minimized application icon of the messenger Wire we need to have a ...
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How to run Signal Desktop in the background?

From the command line or as Startup Application: signal-desktop --start-in-tray --no-sandbox --no-sandbox is needed because the Debian package does not install the sandbox helper as SUID. It is taken ...
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Problems installing Telegram on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (defunct icon in Dash)

It looks like you have basically undone all the steps, so you should be back to a clean slate. Perhaps even restart your computer before proceeding just to make sure. The following steps worked for ...
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How to get Franz messaging app start minimized and with window along the right edge of the screen?

1) A simple wrapper bash script that can be used as a startup app instead of Franz - e.g. ~/.bin/Login-Franz #!/bin/bash # Start Franz "/opt/Franz/franz" & sleep 3 # Get the WIDTH of screen ...
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telegram with secret chats

If you are a Pidgin user, there is a telegram-purple plugin: https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple It is provided for Ubuntu by the webupd8 repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/...
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Instant messenger recommendations

Slack is a free, cross-platform team collaboration tool. Slack's features include real-time messaging, archiving, search, channels for team conversations, private groups, and file sharing. Slack has a ...
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How can I install IMO Messenger on Ubuntu?

There's no official Linux client on the IMO Messenger web site and as far as Google tells me there's no third-party implementation of it either. You may be able to set up Android inside a virtual ...
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Is there a way to use Threema on a Ubuntu desktop?

Threema 2.0 for desktop, Beta version, only with iOS Threema app as flatpak, from Flathub or command line [Flatpak setup needed first]: flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub....
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How do I install Signal in Ubuntu?

Apart from a deb package from the Signal PPA and snap package (sudo snap install signal-desktop), you can install it as flatpak (Follow the setup guide before installing): sudo apt install flatpak ...
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Chat between Mac and Ubuntu

I can send files to other users using hexchat (inc myself), I suspect it's possible using any IRC client (which is a chat program), but 'chat' is a very wide area & I think your question is more ...
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Messenger - JavaScript error in the main process

Yes, this error is very annoying. I did the following: I downloaded the package messengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux64.tar.gz and unpacked it into a separate folder, which I put in the TEMP. Then I ...
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Messenger - JavaScript error in the main process

I got this and it worked fine. Switch update channel to DEV and download the new update. After installing new update, the application should work fine.
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How to install the Wire messenger desktop app/client on Ubuntu?

Wire is also available as a snap and can be easily installed with sudo snap install wire or alternatively, install it using gnome-software, which will provide a simple way to configure the snaps ...
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telegram with secret chats

telegram-cli, although not the easiest to use, supports secret chats: sudo snap install telegram-cli but the pidgin plugin is easier from https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/webupd8?dist=bionic
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Telegram phone number change

If you need to change the number in your ubuntu Telegram aaccount. Just add the new number in the settings screen and then log out of your old number. You will still get all of your contacts via your ...
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Can Yahoo! Messenger be used with Ubuntu?

i don't know why people are suggesting Wine, yahoo messenger won't work with that, at-least its calling features, and there is no other known ways to access its video/voice calling in ubuntu. The ...
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