Installing and Configuring/Using Kristall (Gemini Client) on GNU/Linux Distros Using AppImage

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-01-08 23:13:15 UTC
Modified: 2022-01-08 23:17:49 UTC

Video download link | md5sum d4e05ba0bbb95b71786564dc18e02ee3 Installing and Using Kristall Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

Summary: The Qt-based (i.e. decent KDE integration) Kristall is now available for download as an AppImage file; it's rich in terms of features and it supports gemini, http, https, gopher, finger etc.

EARLIER today I discovered that Kristall is now available as AppImage, just like Moonlander (GTK) and Lagrange (SDL2). They're other GUI-based browsers (other Gemini clients), but this one is Qt-based. So I turned on video and documented my experience installing it, then toying around with it. Earlier today in IRC we had a discussion about the need to convince GNU/Linux maintainers/packagers/developers to adopt these bits of software and make them easier to install. For a lot of people a Flatpak or AppImage file would likely suffice, but in the long run there are also downsides. Anyway, Felix "xq" QueiÃÅ¸ner's Web page/site is here. Nightly AppImage (x86_64) of Kristall is here. Maybe we'll demonstrate Kristall's usage more and more in the coming months. ⬆

Rust People: Drain the Swap, You're Holding It Wrong: Does Rust make sense?
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, linuxconfig.org, and Plagiarised Phoronix: Many articles out there are nowadays fake
European Patent Office Illegally Gutting and Outsourcing Its Functions, Acting Like an Above-the-Law Commercial Business (It Won't Stop at Formalities Officers (FOs) and Classification Slop at the EPO): breaking/violating laws and conventions
Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe: Links for the day
Links 20/09/2025: Internet Shutdowns, Media Censorship, and Climate Worries: Links for the day
About 700 New Gemini Capsules in 13 Months (or 54 Per Month): 4.8K would represent a 20% increase
Techrights the Name Turns 15: About 6 weeks from now we turn 19
Microsoft is Running Out of Time and Floating Fake Figures, Fake Projects, Fake Narratives, Fake Excuses: Also, a lot of Microsoft's "revenue" claims are circular financing (i.e. Microsoft buying from itself, which means Ponzi-like fraud)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 19, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, September 19, 2025
Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Navigating the Pressures of Modern Life and SpellBinding Accidentally Wrote Another Gemini Server: Links for the day
Links 19/09/2025: Press Freedom Dying in US, Anti-Austerity Strikes in France, and Alan Rusbridger to Leave 'Prospect': Links for the day
Offloading to the Sister Site: In the interest of not overwhelming readers
Links 19/09/2025: Coffee Club and "SpellBinding is Now Absurdly Fast": Links for the day
Links 19/09/2025: Media Freedom Ceases to Exist in US, "Consider Dropping Twitter/X": Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/09/2025: Thinking and Insect Bites: Links for the day
Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft: Microsoft now makes Git dependent on Rust, or making Git dependent on GitHub, which is proprietary
The Right to Punch People (Apparently): At Brett Wilson, Brett's job title is "Head of Crime" and Wilson normalises calls for violence
Slop or Fake Articles Have Turned Linux Journal From a Pioneering/Trailblazing "Linux" Magazine Into a Nuisance: some sites with former reputation - good reputation - turn into cesspools
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 18, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, September 18, 2025
Brett Wilson LLP Seem to Have Had Only One Litigation Client in 2025, He Was Previously Charged, Just Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (Whom They Now Represent): Karma is superstition, regulators are not
Project 2030 to Cover How "Project 2025"-Styled Anti-Media Zealots From America Targeted Techrights and Tux Machines: The common denominator is also their attacks on women
Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Meet Deadlines Set by Judge 7 Months Earlier, Tried to Ruin Our Holiday, Then Had the Audacity to Ask Us for Over 3,000 Pounds for Its Own Lateness: As a matter of principle we will never respond to assassin while we are on holiday
On Claims That After Bluewashing Red Hat Will Increasingly Become an Indian Company: Discussed this week (long and detailed)
Americans Attacking British Sites Only Months After They Leave America: We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans and only months after it had moved to the UK
Despite Losing Over a Quarter Million Dollars a Year Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Gives Helping Hand to Libreboot: SPI's financial state depends a lot on its public image or its reputation
Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists: That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy
If You Want to Know the Future, Listen to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Andy Farnell: We're sure the FSF will have plenty of its own output
Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market: Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/09/2025: Computer Literacy and Accessing Alhena's Database: Links for the day
Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook': Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 17, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Installing and Configuring/Using Kristall (Gemini Client) on GNU/Linux Distros Using AppImage

Recent Techrights' Posts