##Facebook Messenger for Linux (and Mac!)

A PyQt clone of Facebook Messenger for Windows. It gives you a chat sidebar, chat popup windows, and notification toasts outside of the browser.

If you have all the dependencies, you can launch the app straight from this repository with ./run.sh. After you install it, you can launch it with fbmessenger. Ubuntu users can install from a PPA by following the instructions here (thanks Alin Andrei). Arch users can install from the AUR. There are packaging scripts included under packaging/ for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu in deb, Red Hat/Fedora in rpm, and Arch) and OS X (using the Homebrew package manager). See the README files in packaging subdirectories for more specific instructions. You can also install with sudo python3 setup.py install, but that makes it hard to uninstall, so prefer to use the packaging scripts.

The configuration file is ~/.fbmessenger/config.py. There are a few settings that users might want to mess with.

Zoom; set a value like Zoom = 1.2 to make the fonts 20% bigger.

SystemTray; set it to SystemTray = True to enable system tray or to SystemTray = False to disable it.

MinimizedOnStart; it is only valid if the SystemTray option set to True. Set MinimizedOnStart = True if you want to have this app minimized to tray on start.

####Dependencies

• Python 3
• PyQt4 for Python 3
• Phonon (optional, for sound on Linux)
• setuptools for Python 3