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WhatsApp Ubuntu .desktop
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
#Put this file in /usr/share/applications/
Name=WhatsApp
GenericName=WhatsApp
Comment=WhatsApp desktop webapp
#Exec=webapp-container --store-session-cookies --webappUrlPatterns=https?://*.whatsapp.com/* --user-agent-string='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.44' https://web.whatsapp.com %u
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --app=https://web.whatsapp.com/
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;
#Put the icon under /usr/share/pixmaps
Icon=WhatsApp.png
Categories=Network;Application;
Keywords=WhatsApp;webapp;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=WhatsApp
#Get value below - save this file, launch it (WhatsApp), run "xprop WM_CLASS" & click on the window
StartupWMClass=web.whatsapp.com
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