A tiny plaintext editor for Linux, built with Rust and GTK4. It runs on Arch/Omarchy and Debian 12+/Ubuntu 22.04+.

• No menubar: a single hamburger menu (also opened with F10)
• One window per file; unsaved windows survive crashes, logouts and reboots and are offered for restore on the next launch
• Closing a modified window asks to save or discard
• Uses the system monospace font (GNOME's setting on GNOME desktops, fontconfig's monospace alias elsewhere)

The only requirement is Docker:

scripts/build.sh            # builds dist/tinytext
scripts/install.sh          # installs to ~/.local (binary + launcher entry)
scripts/install.sh --set-default   # ...and make it the default for .txt/.md files
scripts/install.sh --uninstall     # also removes defaults pointing at tinytext

scripts/build.sh also passes arbitrary cargo commands through, e.g. scripts/build.sh build for a debug build.

The binary is built on Ubuntu 22.04 and links against the system's GTK 4 (4.6 or newer), which is installed by default on GNOME-based systems and Omarchy. On minimal systems install gtk4 (Arch) or libgtk-4-1 (Debian/Ubuntu).

• Unsaved buffers: $XDG_STATE_HOME/tinytext/session (default ~/.local/state)
• Settings: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tinytext/settings.conf

MIT. See LICENSE.

Release builds also write dist/THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES (generated by cargo-about from about.toml and about.hbs) with the notices of the Rust crates compiled into the binary. Ship it alongside the binary; scripts/install.sh installs both files to $PREFIX/share/licenses/tinytext.