{"id":3447,"date":"2025-02-02T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2025-02-02T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:07:28","slug":"signal-messaging-both-mobile-and-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/signal-messaging-both-mobile-and-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal Messaging both Mobile and Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/\">Signal<\/a> on my phone for several years now, since some of my friends use it. It&#8217;s always supported Android yet recently I learned they also support Windows, Mac and Linux. Combined with being secure and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/signalapp\">open source<\/a>, it&#8217;s becoming my go-to messaging app all around.<\/p>\n<p>Video calls work smoothly on this Ubuntu desktop, as well as on my Android phone which runs <a href=\"https:\/\/lineageos.org\/\">LineageOS<\/a> 22 (Android 15).<\/p>\n<p>To install on your phone or tablet, simply get it from the standard app stores.<\/p>\n<p>To install it on Windows or MacOS, go to the site (linked above) to get the download and follow the usual steps.<\/p>\n<p>How to install it on Linux:<\/p>\n<p>First get the app key and store it locally:<\/p>\n<pre>wget -O- https:\/\/updates.signal.org\/desktop\/apt\/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor &gt; signal-desktop-keyring.gpg<\/pre>\n<p>Next add the key to your local keyring:<\/p>\n<pre>cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee \/usr\/share\/keyrings\/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg &gt; \/dev\/null<\/pre>\n<p>Next, add the Signal repo to your local list:<\/p>\n<pre>echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=\/usr\/share\/keyrings\/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https:\/\/updates.signal.org\/desktop\/apt xenial main' | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/signal-xenial.list<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, install the Signal app from the repo:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt install signal-desktop<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used Signal on my phone for several years now, since some of my friends use it. It&#8217;s always supported Android yet recently I learned they also support Windows, Mac and Linux. Combined with being secure and open source, it&#8217;s becoming my go-to messaging app all around. Video calls work smoothly on this Ubuntu desktop, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/signal-messaging-both-mobile-and-desktop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Signal Messaging both Mobile and Desktop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}