Signal Desktop GIF

Paste GIFs into Signal Desktop with a single global keyboard shortcut.

Tested on Windows and MacOS. Needs testing on Linux.

Usage

1. Copy a GIF url to your clipboard.
2. (Only on Windows and Linux) Have your Signal Desktop conversation open and focused.
3. Press Ctrl + g to paste the GIF into Signal Desktop.

Installation

Install signal-desktop-gif from PyPI using any tool you like, e.g. pip or pipx.

You could also just install using rye, see the Development section below.

pip install signal-desktop-gif

Run the script with signal-desktop-gif:

signal-desktop-gif

Development

1. Install rye.
2. Clone this repo and run rye sync in its root.
3. rye run signal-desktop-gif

Configuration

TODO. For now, you have to edit the source code and change the various GLOBAL_CONFIG_VARIABLES (including shortcuts) in the script.

Known Issues

• Shortcuts and other options are not configurable yet.
• Quitting on Windows is buggy, you can use Ctrl + Shift + e to exit the script if Ctrl + c doesn't work.

Links

• signalapp/Signal-Desktop#4841
• Thanks to this Reddit post for pointing out that HTTP URLs can be pasted directly into Signal Desktop (well, at least on Windows and Linux, MacOS doesn't support this).