Fractal

Installing

Flatpak (recommended)

Fractal is available via Flatpak:

Software should open the .flatpakref file and install it.

Alternatively use the command below:

flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gnome.Fractal.flatpakref

Packages

Your software distribution may offer you packages for Fractal:

• Arch Linux: fractal

Building from source

Download tarballs of latest release.

Alternatively, clone latest development code using git:

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal.git

See README.md file for futher instructions.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Does Fractal have encryption support? Will it ever?

Fractal does not currently have encryption support, but there is an initiative for it.

The current effort is to create a monolithic module for Fractal to interact with. Said module will handle all cryptographic tasks. The goal is to reduce the amount of work required for implementing end-to-end encryption by having one thing to interact with, instead of a huge API surface.

Code and further information for this module can be found at https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/metaolm.

• Can I run Fractal with the window closed?

Currently Fractal does not support this. Fractal is a GNOME application, and accordingly adheres GNOME guidelines and paradigms. This will be revisited if or when GNOME gets a "Do Not Disturb" feature.

Getting in touch

Talk with our user and developer community via our:

• Chat: #fractal-gtk at matrix.org (Riot)

• Mailing list

Bug reporting

Test Fractal and its development version and submit your issues:

• Issue tickets

Contributing

Creating or improving:

• Design

• Documentation

• Packaging: make the latest releases available for your distribution

Programming

Contribute code to fix existing bugs:

• Read Newcomers guide to get started

• Start working on one of the newcomers issues

• Browse the source