Tiddly Desktop on Fedora 35, 36

Install the official TiddlyWiki application on Fedora.

• View wikis separately from the browser
  
• Create wikis from personal templates
• Wikis open in individual windows
• External web links work to any browser

 

 

 

 

I. Download Tiddly Desktop

Download the latest linux64 release under "Assets"

Releases: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop/releases/latest

 

II. Install libatomic

For Fedora, libatomic is a dependency

• sudo dnf install libatomic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. Unpack the Downloaded .zip File

I create a directory for special applications in my home directory. These are applications that require custom installations like this.

e.g. /home/<username>/.var/<custom path>/<version>

1. mkdir -p /home/<username>/.var/<custom path>
   
2. unzip tiddlydesktop-linux64-vX.X.XX.X.zip -d /home/<username>/.var/<custom path>

IV. Make it Appear in GUI Menus

Create a .desktop file to make Tiddly Desktop show up in application menus.

Note: The directory: /usr/local/share/ is automatically scanned by the desktop environment for executable .desktop files (via the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable).

• sudo vi /usr/local/share/tiddly.desktop
  

[Desktop Entry] Name=Tiddly Desktop Comment=Manage Tiddlywikis Exec=/home/<username>/.var/<custom path>/<release>/nw Icon=/home/<username>/.var/<custom path>/<release>/images/app-icon.png Categories=Office Keywords=Office,Information Management Terminal=false Type=Application

Of course the lines "Exec=" and "Icon=" deal with the directory you put the Tiddly Desktop files into.

You must make the .desktop file executable so that it shows up in gui menus

• sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/share/tiddly.desktop