How to show WhatsApp QR code in the Terminal on WSL?

[ammos]

I have a problem with QR code in terminal. I cannot see it. How to fix it?

[d99kris]

Hi @ammos - which OS is this on?

nchat uses xdg-open on Linux to display an image of the QR code if environment variable DISPLAY is set. On macOS it always uses an image viewer.

I believe one can force nchat to display the QR code in the terminal by doing something like:

unset DISPLAY
nchat -s

If it still does not display it, please check ~/.nchat/log.txt for any warning or error messages that might give some hint.

On a related note, I'll be looking into whether there's possibility of non-QR-code setup. I saw the underlying library whatsmeow recently added capabilities for something that seems like that in tulir/whatsmeow#419 but it's not yet integrated into nchat, and I'm not sure it will allow text-only setup, I'll need to confirm/test that.

[ammos]

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 under WSL.

unset DISPLAY
nchat -s

Thank you, it worked!

It’s a pity that man can’t combine telegram and whatsapp.

[d99kris]

Good to hear it worked, I'll look into making the X/DISPLAY check more robust. I did test it under WSL a while back, but maybe things have changed.

As for the combined Telegram/WhatsApp, I might look into officially supporting it, but currently it's not. See #102 for more details.