org.gnome.Fractal.svg Fractal Matrix messaging client

Installing

Flatpak (recommended)

Fractal is available via Flatpak:

Download Fractal

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:

Bug reporting

Test Fractal and its development version and submit your issues:

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