GNUnet Messenger
by GNUnet e.V.
Private and secure communication
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About
Messenger-GTK is a convergent graphical messaging application using the GNUnet Messenger service. The goal is to provide private and secure communication between any group of devices.
The application provides the following features:
- Creating direct chats and group chats
- Managing your contacts and groups
- Invite contacts to a group
- Sending text messages
- Sending voice recordings
- Sharing files privately
- Deleting messages with any custom delay
- Renaming contacts
- Exchanging contact details physically
- Verifying contact identities
- Switching between different accounts
- Chatting live via video or voice streaming
- Sharing your screen with a selected group
- Writing notes to yourself
Chats will generally created as opt-in. So you can decide who may contact you directly and who does not, accepting to a direct chat. Leaving a chat is also always possible.
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to your templates folder
--filesystem=xdg-templates:ro - access to your music folder
--filesystem=xdg-music:ro - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures:ro - access to your public-share folder
--filesystem=xdg-public-share:ro - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos:ro - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download - access to your documents folder
--filesystem=xdg-documents:ro - access to your desktop folder
--filesystem=xdg-desktop:ro - access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
--filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0
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