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| tdesktop | org.telegram.desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 169 | 11 | |
| 24,521 | 45 | |
| 2.2% | - | |
| 9.9 | 9.1 | |
| 5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Telegram Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa...
so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to an app instead of a site.
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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?
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Telegram app is listed in audio sources but it is not running
Please report this to the Telegram GitHub.
- Is the Telegram package in RPM Fusion repositories considered safe and actively maintained for installation?
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[Q] What's the best TG client for Linux?
The Telegram Desktop app is available on Linux, and since it is open source, is commonly available in distro repositories.
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Open chats in new window
You just need to install Telegram Desktop if you want this specific thing :) Go to https://desktop.telegram.org and download it there.
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Need help saving settings. or setting a backup
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
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Telegram install on Tails
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop within the same directory as the Telegram executable, create a folder called TelegramForcePortable. This way you can save the Telegram settings across reboots in your persistent storage. no installation needed!
- What non-FOSS you can't live without?
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Official Telegram app : CPU hog
There are 2 versions, one is Telegram Desktop that you can get from their GitHub page, the other one is available on AppStore. I personally use the latter and it’s pretty much negligible in terms of battery impact.
org.telegram.desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of org.telegram.desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-22.
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Telegram
You can get it from the Discovery application (Store installed by default, just search it in the menu), additionally you can have it on the browser. The app is this one https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.telegram.desktop
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Arch/Gnome 43/Wayland/Can't share screen in telegram during video call
use the telegram flatpak
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Flatpak telegram
There was a bad update, but it should be fixed now: https://github.com/flathub/org.telegram.desktop/pull/459
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[Q] Telegram Desktop: can't use system title bar on Linux?
Anyone else noticed that with Telegram Desktop 4.1.1 it's not possible to configure the app to use system title bar anymore? I'm using the flatpak version, so not sure if it's a packaging bug or what.
- So who actually packages and maintains flatpaks?
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App shows up in GUI but is not actually installed
If you are on GNOME, open this link and click install: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.telegram.desktop
- Telegram desktop from debian stable repo is too old to use, literally, it won't let you log in. Is there any plan to update it before the next stable release?
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[Q] The Debian 10 version of Telegram (telegram-desktop) is asking to update to the latest version, but there's no new verson for Debian 10 (current is 1.5.11-1). Is there a solution for this?
If you don't feel like using the web version, you can also use Flatpak version, which you should be using on desktop anyway.
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How to use elementary OS Contractor to simplify your daily routines.
Because it differences in one case of installation on another I will write for the Flathub version.
- Zorin OS 16
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tdesktop and org.telegram.desktop you can also consider the following projects:
Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software - Telegram Member Scraper - Telegram auto group scraper Export telegram group members, how to copy telegram group members, Telegram marketing group
com.brave.Browser
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
com.discordapp.Discord
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
com.visualstudio.code
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
net.lutris.Lutris
kotatogram-desktop - Experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
contractor - A desktop-wide extension service used by elementary OS
TelegramSwift - Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0
org.chromium.Chromium
tdesktop vs Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software
org.telegram.desktop vs com.brave.Browser
tdesktop vs Telegram
org.telegram.desktop vs com.discordapp.Discord
tdesktop vs webview
org.telegram.desktop vs com.visualstudio.code
tdesktop vs Yacy
org.telegram.desktop vs net.lutris.Lutris
tdesktop vs kotatogram-desktop
org.telegram.desktop vs contractor
tdesktop vs TelegramSwift
org.telegram.desktop vs org.chromium.Chromium