Whatsie 6.0.4

A maintenance release fixing spell check and an NVIDIA/Wayland black screen.

What's new

• Spell check works reliably again. It could silently load no dictionaries — most often on the Snap, which inherited an empty system dictionary path — so nothing was ever checked. Whatsie now uses its own bundled dictionaries in that case. (#353)
• Add your own languages. Settings → Advanced → Spell check now has an "Open folder…" button — drop a Chromium <code>.bdic file in there (e.g. pt-BR.bdic) and pick it from the language list.
• No more black screen on NVIDIA + Wayland. When the driver can't provide GBM buffers and Chromium falls back to Vulkan (which paints the page black), Whatsie now switches to software rendering automatically instead of showing a black window. (#351)

⬇️ Install / update

Linux

# Snap — any distro with snapd
sudo snap install whatsie          # first install
sudo snap refresh whatsie          # update

# Flatpak — from Flathub
flatpak install flathub com.ktechpit.whatsie   # first install
flatpak update com.ktechpit.whatsie            # update

# Arch Linux (AUR) — builds from source
yay -S whatsie      # or: paru -S whatsie

AppImage and a self-contained .deb (Qt bundled, installs on any modern Debian/Ubuntu) are attached to this release:

# AppImage
chmod +x whatsie-*.AppImage && ./whatsie-*.AppImage

# .deb (bundled Qt, installs to /opt)
sudo apt install ./whatsie_6.0.4_amd64.deb

Windows (x64)

Download from the assets below (Windows 10/11, 64-bit; bundles its own Qt runtime):

• whatsie-6.0.4-x64.msi — installer (Start Menu + Desktop shortcuts, in-place upgrades)
• whatsie-6.0.4-windows-x64.zip — portable, no install required

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• ☕ PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/keshavnrj/11
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Thank you!