Flatpak
The Flatpak runs as you, and only while you’re signed in; it can’t host a den, and it’s less isolated than the direct install: Privacy has the details.
Install Dens: your software center opens and offers to install it.
If nothing opens
Download the file and open it, or run:
flatpak install https://releases.dens.chat/flatpak/chat.dens.Dens.flatpakrefWhat your software center may ask or say
It adds Flathub, where the runtime Dens runs on comes from, if your computer doesn’t have it yet. A software center that installs for everyone on the computer, as Fedora’s does, asks for your admin password.
GNOME Software calls Dens potentially unsafe because it can use X11, the older way of drawing windows. Dens draws none, but push to talk needs X11 when you’re signed in to an X11 session.
Then pick Dens from your apps menu. Tick Remember on this computer as you set your local password, and Dens starts by itself when you sign in.
On KDE without a wallet
KDE asks you to make one the first time you tick Remember: pick Classic, with the password you sign in with. The default, GPG, needs a GPG key of your own.
Updating
Your software center updates Dens along with your other apps, and Dens offers to restart into each update.
Uninstalling
This deletes Dens and everything it keeps, so make a backup first if you might want it back. Then run:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data chat.dens.DensIts commands
Dens’s commands are inside the Flatpak. To run them as dens, add this to
your shell’s config:
alias dens='flatpak run --command=dens chat.dens.Dens'Which browser works best
Ungoogled Chromium: Dens has had the fewest problems in it, its screen shares can carry a tab’s sound, which Firefox and the browsers built on it can’t, and it makes the smaller copies of videos you send several times faster.
Waterfox can show a blank page for a link another program opens, as Dens opens itself. If it does, click the address bar and press Enter: the link still works.