Font Helper for Figma for Linux OS.

Copy this in terminal

curl -L https://tinyurl.com/rx4xsyh4 | bash

or:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Figma-Linux/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 ~/.config/figma-linux/settings.json

After that You need to restart Font Helper for apply changes:

systemctl --user restart figma-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:

systemctl --user status figma-fonthelper.service

You don't need update it manually. Font Helper updates automatically via figma-fonthelper-updater.service service.
If you didn't disable it :)

Just disable updater via terminal:

systemctl --user stop figma-fonthelper-updater.service
systemctl --user disable ffigma-onthelper-updater.service

And for enabling of auto updates:

systemctl --user start figma-fonthelper-updater.service
systemctl --user enable figma-fonthelper-updater.service

In terminal:

~/local/share/figma-fonthelper/fonthelper -v