# Signal Desktop on Arch & Wayland

i’ve used Signal as my preferred messaging app since around 2015. for a long time, i had the desktop application, and used it often to text directly from my laptop. since switching to Wayland, years ago now, i have simply lived without it: the desktop app didn’t have native wayland support, and i was unwilling to jump through `xwayland` hoops.

today, i finally broke down and went looking for a fix. it turns out Signal’s electron app has supported wayland since 2021. to get this to work with my launcher in Arch Linux, i had to run with the following options: `--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland`.

[`signal-desktop.desktop`][signal-desktop]

    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Name=Signal
    Comment=Signal - Private Messenger
    Comment[de]=Signal - Sicherer Messenger
    Icon=signal-desktop
    Exec=signal-desktop --use-tray-icon --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland -- %u
    Terminal=false
    Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;
    StartupWMClass=signal
    MimeType=x-scheme-handler/sgnl;x-scheme-handler/signalcaptcha;
    Keywords=sgnl;chat;im;messaging;messenger;security;privat;
    X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true

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