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Asked: 2020-11-24 16:20:50 +0800 CST

How to access the build-in microphone and camera in wechat running on linux?

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I can talk with my friend and watch images each other in skype,that is to say that built-in microphone and speaker can be used in skype on my Ubuntu OS.

There is no wechat's official version running on Linux,wechat only can run on android,iPhone,mac,windows. Some geeker use docker to build wechat in Linux this way:

docker pull bestwu/wechat
xhost +
docker run -d --name wechat --device /dev/snd \
           -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
           -v $HOME/WeChatFiles:/WeChatFiles \
           -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
           -e XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx \
           -e QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
           -e GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
           -e AUDIO_GID=`getent group audio | cut -d: -f3` \
           -e GID=`id -g` \

Now to input wechat in terminal,i can use it to input text ,i can hear friend's voice ,but he can't hear my voice,no image can be showed on screen(the image can be shown in cheese and skype), the built-in microphone and camera can't be used in wechat.How can fix it?

The possible way :

electron-wechat

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Installed ,can't be start successfully.

wechat on web

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speakers microphone webcam soundcard docker

4 Answers

  1. Try this:

    WeChat Electron. I've built this. It's a debian package.

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  2. The solution you have now might be half cooked. Instead of trying to fix the docker solution, you might wanna try this WeChat on Linux. Hope this helps you. Until WeChat officially releases a desktop version for linux, you would wanna stick with WeChat Web Could you confirm you're in need of a desktop version and don't wanna go through the solutions provided here? Someone can help you by building a wrapper for https://web.wechat.com/ using Electron framework ElectronJS. The second solution here mentioned deprecated is nothing but the same. May be this information is too much technical but you can always comment and I'll be able to help you.

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  3. Electronic WeChat is a unoffical WeChat client, a better WeChat app built with Electron. To install the Electronic WeChat snap package on all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

    sudo snap install electronic-wechat

    This app is based on Wechat web app (https://wx.qq.com/), Tencent (the WeChat vendor) has denied new user login from the web app for some reason, but you can continue to use this app if you can login to the web app.

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  4. Best Answer

    It is no way to do the job with some geek way,it is wechat's duty to create a linux version.

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