Figma Linux Next

Unofficial Electron-based browser wrapper for the Figma web app on Linux. Loads figma.com directly — no private APIs, no data scraping, no account sharing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Figma, Inc.

🧪 Status: Active Testing Pre-built binaries (.pacman, .deb, .rpm, .AppImage) for x64 and arm64: https://github.com/arximus88/figma-linux-next/releases

What's different from other forks

• Increased performance and build times — thanks to Bun, Vite 8, and Electron 41.
• Instant new-file tab — pre-loaded in background after login, opens without delay
• No duplicate tabs — opening the same file twice focuses the existing tab
• Full local font support — uses fontconfig (fc-list) instead of fontkit; variable fonts and all named instances work correctly
• Updated Google Fonts support — new fonts available: Google Sans, Google Sans Flex, Google Sans Code, etc
• Native window frame styles — GNOME and Windows frame styles that match your DE (macOS and KDE TBD); no custom theming injections that break visual rendering
• Native Wayland — works on GNOME Wayland, KDE Plasma, Sway, Hyprland
• Launched on different enviroments — tested on Asahi Linux (Apple Silicon), Niri compositor ot OpenSuse.
• Config isolation — uses ~/.config/figma-linux-next, no conflicts with legacy installations

Tech Stack

• Electron 41 (Chromium 134)
• Svelte 5 with runes
• Vite 8
• Bun

Installation

Download from https://github.com/arximus88/figma-linux-next/releases:

# Arch / CachyOS (x64)
sudo pacman -U figma-linux-next_*_linux_x64.pacman

# Debian / Ubuntu (x64 or arm64)
sudo dpkg -i figma-linux-next_*_amd64.deb
# or
sudo dpkg -i figma-linux-next_*_arm64.deb

# Fedora / openSUSE
sudo rpm -i figma-linux-next_*_x86_64.rpm

# AppImage
chmod +x figma-linux-next-*.AppImage && ./figma-linux-next-*.AppImage

AppImage note: On first launch the app automatically registers the figma:// URL handler required for login. If login still fails after first launch, register it manually:

# Run once to register the handler
~/.local/share/applications/figma-linux-next-appimage.desktop  # created on first launch
xdg-mime default figma-linux-next-appimage.desktop x-scheme-handler/figma
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

AUR (Arch / CachyOS)

yay -S figma-linux-next

Or with any other AUR helper. Package: figma-linux-next

Migration from legacy figma-linux

Settings are stored in ~/.config/figma-linux-next. To carry over settings from the old installation:

cp ~/.config/figma-linux/settings.json ~/.config/figma-linux-next/

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/arximus88/figma-linux-next.git
cd figma-linux-next
bun install
bun run dev      # dev mode with HMR
bun run build    # production build
bun run start    # run production build
bun run pack     # build all packages

Issues & Discussions

• https://github.com/arximus88/figma-linux-next/issues
• https://github.com/arximus88/figma-linux-next/discussions

License

MIT — see LICENSE.