Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client

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@sunburnedpenguin

I’m a bit embarrassed – I didn’t notice that the “+xx” could be interacted with!

That sounds like a bug to me; the registration should give an error as long as it’s not filled in. I’ve made an issue about that. (Wow, we’re over 400 issues…)

@sunburnedpenguin

The remaining hurdle is that it appears the Sailfish console will only allow me to paste a portion of the URL, not the whole thing. It pastes fine locally, but when I paste it into the SSH session, Sailfish truncates it and won’t allow me to add any additional characters. If I try to use a single quote and paste it in two chunks before closing with a trailing single quote character, it still fails (number masked) even though it does appear to attempt to start Whisperfish using the full URL:

So, there’s apparently an issue for some people that they cannot paste it in one go. I’m not sure why this is, but that’s certainly the reason why the registration does not work for you. There should be no line breaks in the whole string, not even leading nor trailing.

I’ve had someone suggest on Matrix to use something like vi a; harbour-whisperfish --verbose --captcha "$(cat a)", such that you can cleanly edit it in vi (replace with nano if you want) and then on close automatically start Whisperfish. Would that help?