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 witch 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