Is there a way to update the Telegram app to a version that is supported? I keep getting the message:
“Please update your app to the latest version. The version you are using is out date and will no longer work. If you don’t know how to update your app, go to https://telegram.org/dl and install the latest version of the official app.”
sudo apt remove telegram-desktop
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak install telegram
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Hi guru, to install Telegram on Librem 5 is it possible to download it using the browser or has to be installed using Terminal?
I did from a terminal (or SSH session):
sudo flatpack install telegram
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Also you can use https://web.telegram.org as GNOME Web application. It supports desktop notifications.
- Go to https://web.telegram.org via Web (Epiphany browser)
- Click Install Site as Web Application…
- Confirm and wait a few sec, the application will be installed as GNOME Web Application
https://help.gnome.org/users/epiphany/stable/browse-webapps.html.en
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Ok thanks. I need flatpack to do this. I tried to install it (sudo apt-get install flatpack) but I got an error. Unable to locate package…
Repository address missing?
You can download and double-click on Flathub repository file, then install it. Then you search for Telegram in PureOS GNOME Software application.
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Also you can use NIX to install Telegram desktop https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.11&show=tdesktop&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=telegram+desktop
there is the notification with the led but not the sound too bad
If you are a user of telegram-desktop like me you may have noticed that a recent update broke it (the “use native decorations” toggle no longer works to fit it to the screen).
This seems to be a regression of version 4.2. I reported it here but the developers officially don’t care about Linux on mobile.
You can revert to the last working version with this command:
sudo flatpak update --commit=3f5919746b867cb2586c3eb6942f5ab50f0b580e094b1fd0efec89f088b6054b org.telegram.desktop
… and prevent updates with
sudo flatpak mask org.telegram.desktop
However, sooner or later that version will stop working (next time they change the protocol). Honestly as Linux users we had to get used to be second-class citizens. As mobile Linux users we now have to get used to be third-class 
So… did anyone manage to get Telegram integration working with Chatty?
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I never heard about that setting, where is it? I’m using it with display scale at 175% and works pretty well (unfortunately the display scale is reset at each restart)
I have installed version 3.7.3 of Telegram Desktop and works fine for months and with 100% display resolution.
I tried a 3.x yesterday (from the PureOS apt repository) but it could not bind to my account. Maybe the protocol for that changed. Make sure not to uninstall 
Anyway as I said it works nearly perfectly (just some focus issues when opening a photo) up to version 4.1.1.
For now.
So with the Telegram Desktop application everything works well if I set global scaling to 175%, but then I have the issue of a smaller squeekboard.
Is there a trick to using the client at 200% scaling? Or is there a way to have scaling set to 175% but the squeekboard stays at 200%?
I have the global scaling as default 200% and the tg client fits nicely in this. See pictures. Or do I understand something wrong in your message?
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I’m on version 4.2 so maybe that is it but for me the client is too wide and the right side of everything does not fit. When setting the global scaling to 175% the client displays perfectly but then the squeekboard shrinks.
you can use the application phosh-mobile-settings to make telegram-desktop scale to fit the screen, that would leave out the keyboard.
Open telegram and then open: phosh-mobile-settings got to the lockscreen section. There should be an option there to make that app scale to fit.
And that setting is persistent.
I did that and for some reason Telegram only scales when you set global scaling to 175% or less.
edit: Small update, but if i use the phosh mobile settings app to forcibly scale all apps it then works! It is kind of nice because it wont scale anything that already fits!!