Figma-linux is an unofficial Electron-based desktop client that brings Figma, the browser-based interface design tool, to Linux, and it is aimed at Linux users and teams who want Figma in a dedicated application window rather than a browser tab.

What it is

Figma-linux is an unofficial Electron desktop application that wraps Figma, the interface design tool that runs in the browser, for Linux systems. It is written in Svelte and published under the GPL-2.0 licence, and it appears in this registry under Miscellaneous / Design & Prototyping with the topics electron, figma, figma-app and linux. Because Figma itself is delivered from the browser, much of the project's work is packaging: the repository maintains install paths for Snap, AppImage, Debian and Ubuntu packages, an Ubuntu PPA, RPM, the Arch User Repository and NixOS, so that the same application can be installed in the way each distribution expects.

The problem it solves is the gap Linux users meet when the design tool they depend on ships desktop clients for other platforms but not for the system they work on. Instead of leaving Figma in a browser tab, figma-linux supplies an application that can be launched from the terminal or the app list, which is the thing it replaces. The design work itself stays where it has always been, on Figma's own service; what changes is the local shell around it.

Key capabilities

• Presents Figma in an Electron-based desktop window on Linux, tracked under the electron, figma, figma-app and linux topics.
• Installs from Snap in one command, sudo snap install figma-linux, with local font support added through a symbolic link from $HOME/.local/share/fonts into the snap data directory.
• Publishes an AppImage that is explicitly not portable: sudo ./figma-linux-*.AppImage -i installs it onto the system, and -h prints further options.
• Covers Debian-based distributions with a .deb package requiring libgconf-2-4 first, and Ubuntu additionally through the ppa:chrdevs/figma PPA; a NO_PUBKEY error is resolved by adding key 70F3445E637983CC.
• Maintains four Arch User Repository packages — figma-linux, figma-linux-bin, figma-linux-git and figma-linux-dev-git — covering release binaries, builds from the latest release tag, and builds from the current commit on the dev branch.
• Supports RPM-based distributions through a .rpm package installed with dnf, and NixOS by adding figma-linux to environment.systemPackages.
• Builds from source with npm i followed by npm run dev, npm run build, npm run start, npm run builder or npm run pack, with build targets listed in ./config/builder.json and a .env defining NODE_ENV, DEV_PANEL_PORT and DEV_SETTINGS_PORT.

Who uses it and how

• Linux users who need Figma for interface design on a system where no official desktop client is offered, installing whichever package matches their distribution and launching the app from the app list or a terminal.
• Teams standardising on Linux workstations, where designers and engineers need the design tool to behave like a normal desktop application rather than a browser session.
• Distribution-specific users: Arch users through an AUR helper such as yay -S figma-linux-bin, Ubuntu users through the PPA so that apt keeps the package current, and NixOS users declaring figma-linux in configuration.nix.
• Contributors building from source, who clone the repository, run the npm scripts, adjust ./config/builder.json, and package with npm run pack where AppImageTool is installed.
• Community members who follow the project through its Telegram and Spectrum channels.

Getting started

The shortest documented route is the Snap release, sudo snap install figma-linux, while the Releases page provides the AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages and the AUR provides the Arch builds. Snap users who need local fonts should also create the documented symbolic link into the snap's data directory.

How it compares

The facts provided for this registry name no other Linux desktop wrapper for Figma, so figma-linux stands alone here, and its only named point of reference is Figma's own browser-based application, which it wraps rather than reimplements. What distinguishes it is that it is unofficial, Electron-based and GPL-2.0 licensed, distributed through the package managers of the distributions it targets.

When to use it — and when not to

Choose figma-linux when the desktop application experience matters and the distribution is one of the supported families, since installation is a package command and there is no server to operate, database to maintain or mail service to configure — the application is a client, and the design data stays with Figma. It is a poor fit for anyone who needs an offline design tool, or who is unwilling to run an unofficial client against a commercial design service. The README also documents installation far more thoroughly than application features, 162 issues are open at the time of writing, and the AppImage deliberately installs into the system instead of running portably, which rules it out for anyone wanting a self-contained, removable binary.

sudo snap install figma-linux

sudo ln -s $HOME/.local/share/fonts $HOME/snap/figma-linux/current/.local/share/

chmod +x figma-linux-*.AppImage
sudo ./figma-linux-*.AppImage -i

./figma-linux-*.AppImage -h

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4

sudo dpkg -i figma-linux_*_amd64.deb

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chrdevs/figma && sudo apt update && sudo apt install figma-linux -y

sudo apt-key adv --recv-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 70F3445E637983CC

sudo apt install figma-linux_*_amd64.deb

yay -S figma-linux-bin

sudo dnf install figma-linux-*.x86_64.rpm

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

git clone https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux
cd figma-linux

npm i

npm run dev

NODE_ENV=dev
DEV_PANEL_PORT=3330
DEV_SETTINGS_PORT=3331