Using figma plugins on linux (linux mint)

[GoldenRatio]

Hi, I am planning to switch Linux.

I wonder, figma plugins work on linux with linux chrome browser?

[tank666]

If you can open sites in a browser, then Figma plugins will work, because they are created using HTML, JavaScript.

[Anton_Kozlovsky]

Currently there is an issue with loading system fonts. Thus if you want to use custom fonts you may encounter difficulties.

Requests to font-helper on linux stopped working

I’m running Figma on linux in the browser with figma-linux-font-helper to enable usage of local fonts — this helper is basically a drop-in replacement for the official Figma font helper with the difference that it also works on linux. Well, it did until today, when I noticed that my local fonts are not available anymore. When Investigating the issue I found that requests to localhost or 127.0.0.1 (with the purpose of communicating with the font helper) were no longer showing up in the network p…

There a few workarounds that for that. The only one that worked for me:

1. Download chrome
2. Install GitHub - neetly/figma-agent-linux: Figma Agent for Linux (a.k.a. Font Helper)
3. Reboot
4. Open the terminal and paste:

USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.3"
google-chrome-stable --user-agent="${USER_AGENT}" https://www.figma.com/files/recent

[Anton_Kozlovsky]

As an option you can try using Penpot