09-02-2021, 03:33 PM
(09-01-2021, 08:52 AM)ragreenburg Wrote: I got it installed but wasn't able to get it connected to my Axolotl account. Though I would probably blame that on Axolotl because it has been down for a few days now.
Hi, I was using axolotl too until it didn't work well anymore a few days back. I too installed the desktop app and was not able to link with axolotl. So i unregistered axolotl and registered again with the official signal app on android. I was then able to link the desktop app.
I have to say, it's much more usable than I expected, and I'm quite happy with it.
I used to have axolotl demonized to have notifications (while not in deep sleep), so I tried to have kind of the same. I created a desktop file in ~/.config/autostart with execution line as `signal-desktop -start-in-tray`, to start "in the background" (we don't see the tray).
It's way more resource hungry than axolotl was for me, but it hasn't caused me any issue until now, it's worth it in my case (takes nearly 300mb of ram more cpu power than axolotl).