Introducing the Livebook Desktop app 🎉

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This post announces the Livebook desktop app, a way to install Livebook on your machine without the requirement to have Elixir installed before.

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Congrats on the launch! :041:

Looks great and works on my Mac :003: (macOS 12.5)

Not sure if you’re aware, but when browsing the blog homepage and clicking on an article lower down the page the page doesn’t jump to the top of the article you clicked on…

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Congratulations !

Is any Linux version planned ?

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Congratulations !

Thanks! :raised_hands:

Is any Linux version planned ?

We are not planning a Linux version right now, but one can still install Livebook in other ways in a Linux machine.

That said, we would definitely consider contributions!

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Didn’t know about that, thanks!

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Looking forward to a tutorial how to use AppBundler :pray:

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This is awesome, I really want to use your project!
(I actually don’t know what for, but this just a matter of time :stuck_out_tongue:)

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Finally I installed Livebook Desktop on my main Windows machine (as there sadly is no Chromebook version).

Is it supposed to open a new tab in my normal browser or to open in a seperate window?

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It’s supposed to open a tab in your default browser.

Although there’s no Livebook Desktop distribution for Chromebook, there are other ways to install Livebook:

if you don’t have Elixir installed on your machine:

  • Docker

If you have Elixir installed on your your machine:

  • Escript
  • From source

There’s more info about installation that in the README.

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Thanks for your explanation. On my chromebook I use Livebook installed from source.
So it’s pretty much the same on windows desktop as it’s on chromebook directly installed from source - allright :slight_smile:

So now that I put livebook.exe in my autostart folder, after booting windows I have a livebook icon in the tray and it automatically opens my browser. Can I configure it that there is only the icon and not directly opening my browser?

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Good question, I don’t know the answer.

@wojtekmach can you help here?

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It is not currently possible to start Livebook app without opening up Livebook url in the browser.

We could support it but I don’t think we have great options. The one that comes into mind is allowing setting set LIVEBOOK_NO_BROWSER_OPEN_ON_START=true in %USERPROFILE%\.livebookdesktop.bat but 1. it’s not super discoverable you can do it. 2. you find Livebook.exe, double-click it, and nothing happens. For those reasons I’m not keen on adding it, at least not in this particular way.

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There’s no need to implement it. I just wanted to know if it’s possible. Then I better don’t autostart it.

Thanks for that great tool!