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For anyone who wants to make raw image data pasting work as mentioned here, please use webkit2gtk-imgpaste as the dependency.

Thanks a lot for this @swsnr! @bordam Do you think you can do this by simply omitting the flag entirely for this and the other git package as well?

This package currently builds with type Release, but the cmake packaging guidelines recommend to build with build type None, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines#Fixing_the_automatic_optimization_flag_override

Would you mind to change this?

For anyone who wants to make raw image data pasting work as mentioned here, please use webkit2gtk-imgpaste as the dependency.

This program just locks up all the time. killall -s KILL whatsapp-for-linux is the only thing that closes it. Entering text is about all you can do.

Same problem here with Plasma. Locale is set to en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and Plasma settings do not change it, but running locale returned

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Temporary solution: run export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.

@lugge

I think there is more to this issue then just broken locale's on your system. On my system I only have en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 enabled in /etc/locale.gen and my output for locale -a is

C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX

From what I have researched online, the C and C.UTF-8 locales where added into archlinux/manjaro because of systemd and it caused issues because some software cannot handle this properly and it appears that whatsapp-for-linux is one of those issues. I am running Plasma and my region is set to en_US.UTF-8 although everything else is de_DE.UTF-8 (but this shouldn't break anything)

@xeco: thanks for your help but, nevermind. It was my fault.

I discovered I had broken locales when in a Plasma session. Plasma sets some locales to en_DE which, obviously, doesn't make sense. When I override them in a shell, I can launch WA from this shell without issues.

So, anyone discovering

SettingMap: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::ConvertError'

Check your locales ;-)

@lugge, Can you try to delete ~/.config/whatsapp-for-linux/settings.conf file and let the application recreate it for you?

Hi @lugge. I am the author and also the maintainer. Honestly, I worked on this issue a lot and couldn't find anything suspicious in the code as it seems we are doing everything right. It could be that your system locale configuration is broken or wrong. I pinned the issue again on github if that provides any help to the users.

I keep getting an error when starting whatsapp. My system was up-to-date when building the package.

[lugge@lugge-surface whatsapp-for-linux]$ whatsapp-for-linux 
<13>Jul  2 14:29:50 whatsapp-for-linux[6434]: 
<13>Jul  2 14:29:50 whatsapp-for-linux[6434]: (process:6433): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:29:50.196: Locale not supported by C library.
<13>Jul  2 14:29:50 whatsapp-for-linux[6434]:   Using the fallback 'C' locale.
<13>Jul  2 14:29:50 whatsapp-for-linux[6434]: SettingMap: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::ConvertError'
Aborted (core dumped)

This issue was reported before but never adressed. Any idea?