Font Helper for Figma for Linux OS.
Copy this in terminal
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/louispotok/figma-linux-font-helper/master/res/install.sh | bash
Font Helper is a simple http server which get requests from figma on localhost, reads fonts and gives it to the Figma. When You open a figma project in a browser Figma send local http request in Your system. Font Helper replies on this request and returns list of fonts.
You can change Font Helper config file under non-root user. The config file is a simple JSON file.
nano /etc/figma-linux/fonthelper
After that You need to restart Font Helper for apply changes:
sudo systemctl restart fonthelper.service
The app put all logs into the /var/log/fonthelper
directory.
When Font Helper starts it create a new log file in the directory each time.
Just type this in terminal for check status of Font Helper:
sudo systemctl status fonthelper.service
You don't need update it manually.
Font Helper updates automatically via fonthelper-updater.service
service.
If you didn't disable it :)
Just disable updater via terminal:
sudo systemctl stop fonthelper-updater.service
sudo systemctl disable fonthelper-updater.service
And for enabling of auto updates:
sudo systemctl start fonthelper-updater.service
sudo systemctl enable fonthelper-updater.service
In terminal:
/opt/FontHelper/fonthelper -v