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Franz/Rambox style communication app - Wizzard - 07-31-2019
The one thing that I missed on my old Pinebook was the lack of a good communication application that integrates all the services like Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, Discord, etc. into one application. Yes, I could open all those web services in a browser, but it is not convenient.
As I know, Franz and Rambox does not have Linux arm64 version. Is there something similar that run on Linux arm64?
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - danielt - 07-31-2019
(07-31-2019, 01:06 AM)Wizzard Wrote: The one thing that I missed on my old Pinebook was the lack of a good communication application that integrates all the services like Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, Discord, etc. into one application. Yes, I could open all those web services in a browser, but it is not convenient.
As I know, Franz and Rambox does not have Linux arm64 version. Is there something similar that run on Linux arm64?
Given both use an open-core model you might be able to build them yourself! For example rambox offers a quickstart guide that might help:
https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition#quickstart
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - Wizzard - 07-31-2019
I tried it before on Pinebook, but without success. I will try it on PB Pro too, when I don't find anything.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - Wizzard - 02-04-2020
I think I found a possible alternative. All In One Messenger for Chromium.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/all-in-one-messenger/lainlkmlgipednloilifbppmhdocjbda?hl=sk
Testing it now on PC and will try it on PBP at home. I just miss the option to minimize to tray.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - slyecho - 02-04-2020
(07-31-2019, 05:31 AM)danielt Wrote: Given both use an open-core model you might be able to build them yourself! For example rambox offers a quickstart guide that might help:
https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition#quickstart
I tried to compile it, but the problem is the Sencha Cmd that it uses, I could download it from their site and run it since it only uses Java, however there is some error during the build.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - llsf - 02-05-2020
Rambox/Hamsket doesn't seem to be possible due to Sencha on aarch64.
Franz can be compiled, or the more open fork ferdi:
https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/releases
There's an AUR-package for it, but it always lags behind a bit; I'll see if I can get it working for the most recent release and report back.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ferdi
I only rarely use it, though, because electron really is not a nice thing to use on a somewhat resource constrained device.
/edit: Forgot to add: the only major change required in the PKGBUILD was:
Code:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ package() {
# Install the .asar files
install -dm 755 "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/ferdi
- cp -r --no-preserve=ownership --preserve=mode out/linux-unpacked/resources "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/ferdi/
+ cp -r --no-preserve=ownership --preserve=mode out/linux-arm64-unpacked/resources "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/ferdi/
# Install icon
install -Dm 644 "$srcdir"/ferdi.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/ferdi.desktopRE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - Wizzard - 02-06-2020
I tried that All In One Messenger in Chromium and it works. The only problem is that I dont know how to attach it on the taskbar and to minimize it to tray. I saw also another similar apps for Chromium and even Firefox, so I will check for more options.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - llsf - 02-07-2020
So I finally managed to somewhat clean up my things and put them on github:
https://github.com/lsfxz/pinebookpro-things
The ferdi-PKGBUILDs now work with the latest beta / straight from git.
If on a different distro, you might be able to at least glean some hints at building it manually from them.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - Wizzard - 04-29-2020
I give it up, I just use Chromium as an instant messenger in small window with all the tabs with Hangouts, Messenger, Skype, etc. and have set it to restore the session at startup. I is fast and lightweight and memory effective.
The only think it does not have is the ability to minimize to tray.
RE: Franz/Rambox style communication app - llsf - 04-29-2020
Should you change your mind at some point: Ferdi is now available prebuilt as well (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9452) and hamsket can be easily built/run from the upstream binary as well: https://gitlab.com/ohfp/pinebookpro-things/-/tree/master/hamsket-bin or https://gitlab.com/ohfp/pinebookpro-things/-/tree/master/hamsket-nightly-bin.
Should you be on a different OS than Manjaro, you could just take a look at the PKGBUILDs; for hamsket especially you pretty much just need to unpack it and run the app.asar directly via electron.