Tencent QQ
QQ is an instant messaging software developed by Tencent, an imitation of ICQ, and a popular IM software in China. This page lists various solutions for Arch Linux using QQ.
Official version
The official version is already available. To use the official version, install linuxqqAUR.
Virtual machine
You can run a complete Windows system in a virtual machine and run QQ in this. Compared with other schemes, this scheme has the smallest chance of error. The disadvantage is that it takes up more resources.
- According to the license terms[dead link 2024-10-12 ⓘ], running Windows on each virtual device requires a separate authorization. But you can choose to use the virtual machine dedicated system provided by Microsoft[dead link 2024-01-13 ⓘ] (free to use).
- If you use VirtualBox, it is recommended that you enable seamless mode, this feature allows you to seamlessly operate the window in the virtual machine under the host desktop.
Wine
Wine is a "compatibility layer" that runs Microsoft Windows programs under UNIX-like systems, and it can be used to simulate QQ environment to run QQ/TIM.
Deepin QQ/TIM
Deepin QQ/TIM is a relatively mature solution in wine. Almost out of the box, with fewer bugs.
You can install the normal QQ: deepin-wine-qqAUR or TIM: com.qq.office.deepinAUR (or com.qq.tim.sparkAUR from Spark Store), also from Arch Linux CN source install the normal QQ: deepin.com.qq.im
or TIM: deepin.com.qq.office
。
Or you can install the Light version: deepin.com.qq.im.lightAUR。
For the KDE/Plasma desktop, see Deepin-wine#Deepin-wine applications fails to start.
Crossover
You can use CrossOver to run QQ, TM2013 and TIM. For more details, please refer to CrossOver's compatibility list.
AppImage
AppImage is a format for packaging applications into a single file. You can download the packaged Wine QQ/TIM in [1].Only need to give executable permissions to use. Since the AppImage format comes with the dependencies required by the program, this method is least affected by the versions of other components in the system.
Teacher Qingfeng's Wine QQ program
You can also use the Wine QQ program provided by Teacher Qingfeng.
Manual Wine scheme
QQ light chat version
Install winetricks and wine. Created qqlight.verb
as follows:
w_metadata qqlight apps \ title="QQ Light" \ publisher="Tencent" \ year="2015" \ media="download" \ file1="QQ6.7Light.exe" \ installed_exe1="$W_PROGRAMS_X86_WIN/Tencent/QQ/Bin/QQ.exe" \ homepage="https://www.qq.com" \ unattended="no" load_qqlight() { w_download https://dldir1.qq.com/qqfile/qq/QQ6.7Light/13466/QQ6.7Light.exe e1e1ff2bf6461c08047d0a01927a43c5a0746bdf if w_workaround_wine_bug 29636 "Installing native riched20 to work around crash bug" then w_call riched20 fi if w_workaround_wine_bug 34566 "Installing native ctf to work around crash" then w_call msctf fi # Make sure chinese fonts are available w_call fakechinese # uses mfc42u.dll w_call mfc42 cd "$W_CACHE/$W_PACKAGE" w_try "$WINE" "$file1" # fix crash after login mkdir -p ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/qqlight/drive_c/users/$LOGNAME/Application\ Data/Tencent/QQ/Misc/com.tencent.wireless/SDK chmod 000 ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/qqlight/drive_c/users/$LOGNAME/Application\ Data/Tencent/QQ/Misc/com.tencent.wireless/SDK w_declare_exe "$W_PROGRAMS_X86_WIN\\Tencent\\QQ\\Bin" QQ.exe }
Run winetricks
to install:
$ winetricks qqlight.verb
After installation, start it through wineconsole
:
$ wineconsole .wine/drive_c/run-qqlight.bat
TIM
Install wine, wine-gecko and wine-mono.
Execute winetricks riched20
, or use winecfg
to set function library substitution.
You may need to configure Chinese font display, see #Font configuration.
Install TIM.
Generate icon
The installed TIM may not have generated an icon in the program list. To add icons by yourself, create a new tim.desktop
file and write the following:
tim.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1 Name=TIM Comment=Tencent TIM Exec=wine '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Tencent/TIM/Bin/TIM.exe' Icon=~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Tencent/TIM/TIMUninst.ico Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Network;
Move tim.desktop
to ~/.local/share/applications
or /usr/share/applications
.
Tips and tricks
HiDPI support
On the HiDPI display, the QQ/TIM interface may be too small. Support for HiDPI has been added to the newer version of QQ/TIM. Just manually adjust Wine's DPI.
Execute winecfg
, switch to the display tab in the opened window and adjust the DPI.
WINEPREFIX
variable when you execute winecfg
. For example, env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.deepinwine/Deepin-QQ deepin-wine winecfg
or env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.deepinwine/Deepin-TIM deepin-wine winecfg
.Configuration under the tiled window manager
Awesome
Wine QQ/TM may be out of control under the tiled window manager, and some configuration is required.
The following configuration has these effects:
- Set all TM windows to float.
- Clear unnecessary window borders to prevent the focus from moving to the menu when the menu pops up.
- When using tabbed conversation window, increased use of digital switches Alt+Number shortcut key, need to install xdotool.
- Automatically close the pop-up news window.
Add the following to the Awesome configuration:
function myfocus_filter(c) if awful.client.focus.filter(c) then -- This works with tooltips and some popup-menus if c.class == 'Wine' and c.above == true then return nil elseif c.class == 'Wine' and c.type == 'dialog' and c.skip_taskbar == true and c.size_hints.max_width and c.size_hints.max_width < 160 then -- for popup item menus of Photoshop CS5 return nil else return c end end end awful.rules.rules = { -- All clients will match this rule. { rule = { }, properties = { -- we use our own function focus = myfocus_filter, -- The following is the default part border_width = beautiful.border_width, border_color = beautiful.border_normal, keys = clientkeys, buttons = clientbuttons, } }, { rule_any = { instance = {'TM.exe', 'QQ.exe'}, }, properties = { -- This, together with myfocus_filter, make the popup menus flicker taskbars less -- Non-focusable menus may cause TM2013preview1 to not highlight menu -- items on hover and crash. focusable = true, floating = true, -- remove the border border_width = 0, } }, { -- Other rules } } alt_switch_keys = awful.util.table.join( -- it's easier for a vimer to manage this than figuring out a nice way to loop and concat awful.key({'Mod1'}, 1, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+1') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 2, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+2') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 3, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+3') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 4, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+4') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 5, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+5') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 6, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+6') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 7, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+7') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 8, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+8') end), awful.key({'Mod1'}, 9, function(c) awful.util.spawn('xdotool key --window ' .. c.window .. ' ctrl+9') end) ) function bind_alt_switch_tab_keys(client) client:keys(awful.util.table.join(client:keys(), alt_switch_keys)) end -- }}} client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup) -- other configuration if c.instance == 'TM.exe' then -- add Alt+n support bind_alt_switch_tab_keys(c) -- close all kinds of news notification small windows if c.name and c.name:match('^腾讯') and c.above then c:kill() end end -- other configuration end)
You can also look at the complete Awesome configuration.
i3
In the native configuration, when qq2012
is started, it will be maximized automatically, and the border is not beautiful. The following two rules can be set in the i3 config
setting to improve:
for_window [instance="QQ.exe"] floating enable for_window [instance="QQ.exe"] border none
Troubleshooting
Font configuration
If you have problems displaying Chinese, you can try to execute winetricks fakechinese
first.
See also fonts and Applications without fontconfig support。
File is occupied
Just kill the process of QQ or TIM. After exiting QQ/TIM, some related processes are still running in the background. You can also use the following script to start QQ/TIM, it will first find the existing process, kill the process and start a new QQ/TIM.
start-tim.sh
#!/bin/sh # script to start TIM # kill TIM before start TIM for pid in `pgrep TIM.exe`; do if [ -n ${pid} ]; then kill ${pid} fi done # start TIM wine '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Tencent/TIM/Bin/TIM.exe'
The above example is applicable to TIM, and can be applied to QQ after a little modification.
Unable to input emoticons under xfce4 (xfwm4)
Open the Settings Manager-Window manager tuning-focus, uncheck the ICCCM focus prompt to activate focus anti-theft and follow the standard.
The reason is that incompatibility occurs when the emoji window gains focus.
Cannot enter Chinese under non-Chinese locale
Modify the Exec
of the .desktop
file, which is usually located in /usr/share/applications/
, but must be copied to ~/.local/share/applications/
in order to not get overwritten.
Add env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8
to the Exec
line.
For example, the original Exec
was:
Exec=".wine/drive_c/Program Files/QQ/Bin/QQ.exe"
Should be changed to:
Exec=env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 wine ".wine/drive_c/Program Files/QQ/Bin/QQ.exe"
Screen flicker when using a monitor with high refresh rate
See Chromium#Chromium rendering at 60 FPS despite using a display with a higher refresh rate.
See also
- openSUSE wiki
- QQ group space on the web side When the QQ client used does not support group space, this service can be used instead.
- IM QQ-QQ mobile version Mobile end is also an alternative.
- hillwoodroc/winetricks-zh hillwoodroc/winetricks-zh