DoChat /dɑɑˈtʃæt/ 盒装微信

DoChat(盒装微信) is a Dockerized WeChat(微信) PC Windows Client for Linux.

Image Credit: Docker 101 + Icon Finder, and Ps-ed by Ruoxin Song

Usage

WeChat PC will be started on your Linux desktop by running the following one-line command:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huan/docker-wechat/master/dochat.sh | bash

Just copy/paste the above one-line command to your terminal and press Enter. Then the WeChat PC should appear in your XWindows desktop shortly.

Features

It just works out-of-the-box with one-line of shell command!

Input/Display Chinese characters perfectly.
Paste copied images to WeChat with Ctrl+V

Requirements

Ubuntu Linux desktop (DoChat was developed under Ubuntu 19.10 desktop, should be ok with 19.04/18.10/18.04, might be ok with other Linux distributions)
Docker (run sudo apt update && apt install docker.io to install Docker for Ubuntu users)

Environment Variables

`DOCHAT_SKIP_UPDATE`

If you do not want to update docker image at startup everytime, you can set DOCHAT_SKIP_UPDATE environment variable.

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huan/docker-wechat/master/dochat.sh \
  | DOCHAT_SKIP_UPDATE=true bash

In case you have downloaded dochat.sh:

DOCHAT_SKIP_UPDATE=true ./dochat.sh

`DOCHAT_DEBUG`

Show more debug log messages.

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huan/docker-wechat/master/dochat.sh \
  | DOCHAT_DEBUG=true bash

For Hackers

If you want to control everything by yourself, for example, open multiple WeChat PC client on your desktop; then, you might want to inspect the dochat.sh in our repository and try the following docker command:

docker run \
  --name DoChat \
  --rm \
  -i \
  \
  -v "$HOME/DoChat/WeChat Files/":'/home/user/WeChat Files/' \
  -v "$HOME/DoChat/Applcation Data":'/home/user/.wine/drive_c/users/user/Application Data/' \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  \
  -e DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" \
  \
  -e XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx \
  -e GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
  -e QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
  -e GID="$(id -g)" \
  -e UID="$(id -u)" \
  \
  --ipc=host \
  --privileged \
  \
  zixia/wechat

Modify it whatever you want to fulfill your needs.

Known Issues

In-WeChat Browser does not work (#2)

To-do List

Permanent Storage for WeChat PC Login Data Information (#3)
Automatically install WeChat PC from .EXE installer when building the Dockerfile. (Test Automation tools might be needed)
Monitor WeChat PC version publications so that we can publish the same version number of the docker image with it.