telegram-desktop-patches

Patches disabling some anti-features of Telegram Desktop.

Also check out releases https://github.com/olodar/telegram-desktop-patches/releases because compilation requires about 32GiB RAM.

Installation

Arch Linux

makepkg -si

Or if you want to regenerate PKGBUILD for current patches in the directory:

make

You may also install a prebuilt package published in releases.

Other systems

Download source code of Telegram Desktop and run commands from prepare(), build() and package() in PKGBUILD manually.

Patches

0001-Disable-sponsored-messages.patch

0002-Disable-saving-restrictions.patch

Enables saving media, selecting and copying messages in channels, which disallow doing so.

0003-Disable-invite-peeking-restrictions.patch

Disables restrictions for viewing and exporting private chats and channels you didn't join but are able to view.

0004-Disable-accounts-limit.patch

Contributing

Feel free to contibute patches and means of packaging and installation.

See also

Killergram - Xposed module featuring some patches with similar functionality for Telegram for Android.

Credits

telegram-desktop-no-ads-pkgbuild