siggo

A terminal ui for signal-cli, written in Go.

Unable to keep pace with signal-cli

I have not been keeping up with signal-cli development. They change the location and format of their local data constantly. If you want your install to work, use signal cli version 0.9.2 until I find time to update.

Features

• vim-style ux
• useful for quick messages or use $EDITOR to compose fancy ones
• emoji support, just use colons, like :cat: or the kitty emoji picker
• configurable contact colors
• can use fzf to fuzzy-find files to attach
• support for groups! (but not creating new groups)
• quickly filter messages by providing a regex pattern

Dependencies

• signal-cli. (==0.9.2)

siggo uses the dbus daemon feature of signal-cli, so libunixsocket-java (Debian), libmatthew-java (Fedora) or libmatthew-unix-java (AUR) is required. There seems to be a brew forumla for dbus on MacOS.

Install signal-cli and put it somewhere safe in your path. You will need to follow its instructions to either link or register your device. Alternatively, the siggo link <phonenumber> <devicename> subcommand has been added to make linking more user-friendly. Be sure to prefix with + and country code (for example +12345678901).

When setup is finished, you should be able to run without error:

signal-cli -u +<yourphonenumber> -o json receive

You are now ready to use siggo.

Optional Dependencies

• fzf

Some nice features are available if you have fzf in your PATH.

Security

siggo shells out to signal-cli, so if that worries you, don't use it, for now. I have lofty goals of eventually replacing this with libsignal.

Build

siggo should build on Linux or MacOS, but has primarily been tested on Linux.

make build

Run

bin/siggo

Updating

If you are updating from a previous version, I recommend deleting your conversation files first. See below.

Keybinds

• j - Scroll Down
• k - Scroll Up
• J - Next Contact
• K - Previous Contact
• n - Move to next conversation with unread messages
• t - Use fzf to goto contact with fuzzy matching
• a - Attach file (sent with next message)
• A - Use fzf to attach a file
• / - Filter conversation by providing a pattern
• i - Insert Mode
  • CTRL+L - Clear input field (also clears staged attachments)
• I - Compose (opens $EDITOR and lets you make a fancy message)
• y - Yank Mode
  • yy - Yank Last Message (from current conversation)
  • yl - Yank Last URL
• o - Open Mode
  • Enter - Open selected attachment
  • oo - Open Last Attachment
• l - Link Mode
  • Enter - Open selected link in browser
  • ll - Open Last URL
  • y - Yank selected link to clipboard
• p or CTRL+V - Paste text/attach file in clipboard
• ESC - Normal Mode
• CTRL+Q - Quit (CTRL+C should also work)

Configuration

See the configuration README here.

Message History

Message saving is an opt-in feature.

If you enable it, conversations are stored in plain text in ~/.local/share/siggo/conversations.

Delete them like this:

rm ~/.local/share/siggo/conversations/*

Troubleshooting

I've started a wiki here.

Development

Honestly the code is a hot mess right now, and I don't recommend trying to contribute yet. But I will absolutely take a PR if you want to throw one at me.

If you save the output of signal-cli like so:

signal-cli -u +<yourphonenumber> receive --json > example_messages.json

You can then run siggo using it as mock input. This is useful for development and testing.

bin/siggo -m example_messages.json

This way you can test without sending yourself messages.

Similar Projects / Inspiration

• signal-curses
• scli

Roadmap

Here is a list of things that are currently broken.

• Send read receipts for incoming messages (signal-cli limitation, but might be fixed soon)

Here is a list of features I'd like to add soonish.

• Better Attachments Support
  • signal-cli seems to delete old attachments after a while. maybe I should move them somewhere where they wont get deleted?
• default color list for contacts instead of white
• better mode indication
• gui configuration
  • colors and border styles
• let user re-sort contact list (for example alphabetically)
• use dbus to send instead of signal-cli, to avoid having to spin up the JVM
• there is still some data that I'm dropping on the floor (I believe it to be the "typing indicator" messages)
• weechat/BitlBee plugin that uses the siggo model without the UI
• wouldn't tests be neat?