Tilo

Add the desktop to Fedora

Add Tilo as another sign-in session. Fedora, your home directory, GNOME or KDE, and your existing applications remain in place.

Before changing packages

  • Finish the current Fedora update and restart if it asks you to.
  • Close applications before signing out; installing the session does not close them for you.
  • If this is a managed computer, ask its administrator before adding a system package.

1. Check your system

Check that this computer runs Fedora 44 on x86-64. The public repository does not require an account or access token.

2. Add the Tilo repository

These commands add the signed public Tilo package repository to your existing package manager.

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo \
  --from-repofile=https://code.podesta.ai/api/packages/qos/rpm/fedora/44.repo

3. Install the session

sudo dnf install tilo-session

When installation finishes, sign out, select your account, open the session menu, choose Tilo, and sign in. Choose GNOME or KDE from the same menu to switch back.

First sign-in

The first-start screen creates a new Tilo collaboration identity or connects this device with an existing recovery copy. It then offers a short, skippable tour. It does not copy another desktop's extensions or private settings.

Your existing home directory remains available. Tilo creates a private Personal workspace; nothing is shared until you invite someone. Normal Linux applications appear in search and run normally. Native Tilo apps additionally gain workspace history, shared state and the common action interface.

Update

sudo dnf upgrade tilo-session

The desktop session follows the distribution's update and rollback rules. Installing it as a session does not turn the host distribution into the image-based Tilo operating system.

Switch back or remove it

To switch desktops, sign out and select the previous session at the sign-in screen. This changes no files.

To remove the Tilo package, first sign in to another desktop, then run:

sudo dnf remove tilo-session

Removing the session leaves your workspace data in your home directory. Export or delete it separately from Settings → Workspaces. Read Remove Tilo safely before removing the last copy.