LockinRa for Linux — AppImage, deb and rpm

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v1.7.0 · x86_64 · AppImage 276 MB · deb 197 MB · rpm 197 MB

The AppImage is one self-contained file — nothing installed system-wide, delete it to uninstall. The deb and rpm register a launcher entry like any other app. Either way your data lives in ~/.config/LockinRa.

Run it

deb or rpm — install and launch it from your applications menu:

sudo apt install ./LockinRa-1.7.0-linux-amd64.deb
# or
sudo dnf install ./LockinRa-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.rpm

AppImage — make it executable and launch it:

chmod +x LockinRa-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./LockinRa-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Or right-click the file → Properties → Permissions → Allow executing as program, then double-click it.

Hit a FUSE error? Some distros don't ship FUSE 2 by default. Either install it — sudo apt install libfuse2 (Debian/Ubuntu) or sudo dnf install fuse (Fedora) — or run it without FUSE:

./LockinRa-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run

What to expect on Linux

Almost everything works. One feature is limited by your display server, and one needs a package you may not have.

Works

Tasks, voice & text capture
Focus sessions, Pomodoro, soundscapes
Notes, habits, analytics, calendar
Local AI (Ollama) & on-device voice (Whisper)
Browser-extension web distraction detection
Coach & Copilot, integrations

Limited

Desktop-app distraction detection works on X11 but is unreliable on Wayland (the default on many distros) — the web/extension path still covers browser distractions. This one is permanent: Wayland has no protocol for reading another window's title, by design.
The now-playing mini-player needs playerctl installed (sudo apt install playerctl). Without it the panel simply says nothing is playing.
No built-in auto-update yet — re-download to upgrade.

New in v1.7.0

Linux was three versions behind, and the gap was never really about packaging — it was that the parts of the app which talk to the operating system had one implementation, and it was the Windows one. That is what this release fixes, alongside the whole Notes rebuild.

.deb and .rpm alongside the AppImage, with a proper freedesktop entry — so the app appears in your launcher instead of being a file you have to remember where you put.
Run at login actually works. Electron's login-item API is a documented no-op on Linux, so LockinRa now writes an XDG autostart entry itself. Under an AppImage it records the image's real path rather than the temporary mount it is running from — which is why this looked like it worked and then silently stopped after a reboot.
The app picker reads your .desktop entries — system, user, Flatpak and Snap — instead of returning nothing.
Now playing reads any MPRIS player through playerctl. If playerctl is not installed the panel says nothing is playing, which is the truth rather than an error.
Close-to-tray refuses to hide when your session has no status-icon host — a stock GNOME desktop has none, and hiding there used to mean losing the window with no way back.
Local AI finds Ollama at any of the paths the install script, your distro package or Snap put it at.

System requirements

A 64-bit Linux desktop (glibc-based, e.g. Ubuntu 22.04+, Fedora, Debian 12+).
8 GB RAM for small local models, 16 GB recommended for larger ones.
A discrete GPU helps AI inference but isn't required.

Prefer Windows? Download for Windows or get it on the Microsoft Store. On a Mac? macOS ships in this release too. Every file for every platform, with SHA-256 checksums, is on the downloads page. Found a bug on Linux? Email us — Linux feedback genuinely helps.

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