Introduction

Spirit is a modern and hackable desktop mascot, it operates very similar to MaCoPix and Shimeji but was never invented to replace either of them. Spirit is made just out of curiosity and as an alternative to both of them since both are legacy software.

Spirit is built from the ground up using Qt5 Framework and C++, uses rust for it's auxilary tools and helper applications. Spirit is also cross-platform and can run in all the major platforms with no issues.

Getting Started

Spirit is very easy to install, grab a fresh copy of Spirit from the downloads section. We recommend you to install Stable version of the software on most cases but if you like to try out the latest and greatest of Spirit, you should use the Development version. Although development builds might sometimes not work.

GNU/Linux Instructions

In Linux, Spirit is distributed as an AppImage. You will need libfuse2 which is mostly installed by default in modern linux distributions, to execute any AppImage.

 $ chmod +x spirit-*-x86_64.AppImage
 $ ./spirit-*-x86_64.AppImage

However you can run the AppImage without libfuse2 using the argument --appimage-extract-and-run, although this is not recommended.

MacOS Instructions

Open the .dmg file by "Control + Click" and then Open. This is because the dmg file and application inside is not code signed, but this is not a problem but if you are worried make sure to cross check the checksums from the build log and the one you downloaded from Github.

Windows Instructions

Open the setup file and just follow the instructions, since the file is not code signed Windows will warn you, you should force it to keep the file anyway and install it anyway.