iarnaud / facebook-messenger-desktop

Bring messenger.com to your OS X, Windows or Linux desktop.

Messenger for Desktop

Bring messenger.com to your OS X, Windows or Linux desktop. Built with NW.js. Not affiliated with Facebook.

Features

• Sounds (can be disabled in settings)
• Desktop notifications (enable them in settings)
• Voice and video calls

Extra

• Badge with the number of notifications in the dock/taskbar (OS X and Windows)
• Auto-launch on OS startup (OS X, Windows)
• Native notifications (all platforms)
• System tray icon on Windows
• 3 themes: Default, Dark and Mosaic
• Auto-hide the left sidebar
• Open links in browser or new window
• Preferences in the right-click context menu (or menu bar for OS X, tray menu for Windows)

Build

Pre-requisites

# install gulp
npm install -g gulp

# install dependencies
npm install

• wine: If you're on OS X/Linux and want to build for Windows, you need Wine installed. Wine is required in order to set the correct icon for the exe. If you don't have Wine, you can comment out the winIco field in gulpfile.
• makensis: Required by the pack:win32 task in gulpfile to create the Windows installer.
• fpm: Required by the pack:linux{32|64}:deb tasks in gulpfile to create the linux installers.

Quick install on OS X:

brew install wine makensis
sudo gem install fpm

OS X: pack the app in a .dmg

gulp pack:osx64

Windows: create the installer

gulp pack:win32

Linux 32/64-bit: pack the app in a .deb

gulp pack:linux{32|64}:deb

The output is in ./dist. Take a look in gulpfile.coffee for additional tasks.

TIP: use the --toolbar parameter to quickly build the app with the toolbar on. E.g. gulp build:win32 --toolbar.

TIP: use gulp build:win32 --noicon to quickly build the Windows app without the icon.

TIP: for OS X, use the run:osx64 task to build the app and run it immediately.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Alexandru Rosianu

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.