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Mercury for Google Messages #

Google Messages, on your desktop. Mercury delivers your messages to you on your Linux desktop via the Google Messages web app. Rather than keeping a tab open all the time, let Mercury keep you connected with notifications and quick access to your messages.

Features #

  • Native notifications
  • Runs in the background
  • Light/dark style support
  • Minimal UI with optionally auto-hiding titlebar
  • Keyboard shortcuts for zoom, closing, and fullscreen

Known limitations #

  • When logging in, it apparently hangs when trying to use a passkey; just hit “Try another way” and pick another method.

  • Notifications require toggling the webapp's notification setting off and back on EVERY SESSION. This is super annoying!

  • Notifications use the app icon instead of the sender/conversation avatar. Unfortunately WebKit does not expose the icon URL from web notifications.

  • WebKit sends an MPRIS notification for some reason; something to do with the Google Messages service worker registering a media session so that it can play notification sounds? No idea, but I'd like to get rid of it.

Building #

Mercury is built for GNOME using Flatpak and GNOME Builder. Open this project in GNOME Builder for development, or build it using the Flatpak manifest.