# Linux player status and plans
**URL:** https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612
**Category:** Xibo Player for Linux
**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612 "2023-07-04T10:14:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/1 "2023-07-04T10:14:16Z")
The Linux Player has been and still is a complex problem for us to solve. We want to provide the same native experience for images/video and web embedding as we do for our other players, as well as powerful hooks into the operating system to run commands, build reliable connections, run web servers, etc.
Due to various circumstances outside of our control, development of the current player stopped in May 2021. This will be the second player we’ve had to retire for technical reasons.
Heading into our v4 release, it is more important than ever that there is a Xibo solution for Linux. We have put together a 3 point plan to make that happen:
- Improve the HTML preview in the CMS (Xibo 4.1)
- Add a Layout Sharing and Embedding feature (Xibo 4.1)
- Pull out reusable components from the CMS preview and Windows Players and migrate them to Linux
This is an ambitious plan for our small team, but we’re confident it will provide a long-term solution for the platform and we’re already investing to make it a reality.
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/2 "2023-07-04T10:14:38Z")
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### Author:  [@pitoco02](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/pitoco02)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/3 "2023-07-04T21:54:05Z")
I’m glad to hear that, and I’m sure the community feels the same way! Congratulations to the team for taking the initiative to make Xibo a widely adopted and multiplatform solution.
I can’t wait for a future release!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/4 "2023-10-04T03:54:15Z")
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/5 "2024-03-27T10:48:42Z")
A quick update for you all. We are making good progress with a Linux player and hope to have something available to test in August 2024.
After extensive testing of various options we have chosen to develop the player using ElectronJS. The electron ecosystem will allow us to bring the same player application to Windows and Linux, as well as share code with the CMS’s own layout previewing capabilities.
Of course, the player and shared libraries will be open source.
We’re excited with how the player is coming together, and although we still have a lot of work to do, we are making good progress.
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/6 "2025-01-12T20:17:14Z")
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/7 "2025-01-12T20:52:28Z")
As we head into 2025, the interest in a Linux player is as strong as ever, and the team here at Xibo are still trying to make it happen. A combination of us hitting some snags in this development and others, and more bugs to fix in 4.0 than we hoped, has meant we’re delayed.
Those of you who watch us closely will have seen improvements to the CMS preview landing in Xibo 4.1, and that previewing is now provided by a new library called XLR (Xibo Layout Renderer) which can be found here:
> **[GitHub - xibosignage/xibo-layout-renderer: Layout Renderer](https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo-layout-renderer)**
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> Layout Renderer
This has always been “Phase 1” of the new Electron player development and i’m happy to say it has been successful. We have some further improvements to XLR landing in CMS 4.2, adding capability for interactive and conditional rendering differences between platforms.
Phase 2 is to build out all of the other logic a player needs to run, for example XMDS communication, schedule parsing, logging and alerting, etc, etc. We are 85% of the way through this work and expect to have something for our beta testers to try out shortly after we have finished deploying our next 4.2 CMS release.
Phase 3 is then fixing bugs, improving stability, building for Linux, building for Windows and packaging ahead of a public stable release.
If you’re happy to be a beta tester for the Linux player and you haven’t already joined the beta testers group, please apply now so you can be added in time to try the first release.
Thanks everyone.
Dan
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### Author:  [@MrMEEE](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/MrMEEE)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/8 "2025-02-05T13:10:09Z")
@dan How can I join the beta tester program for the new Linux player??
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### Author:  [@natasha](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/natasha)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/9 "2025-02-07T11:43:46Z")
Hi, please do submit a request to join the Beta Tester group [here.](https://community.xibo.org.uk/g/Beta_Testers)
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### Author:  [@Domino](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Domino)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/10 "2025-02-24T08:07:02Z")
Is build for ARM Linux planned in the future?
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### Author:  [@0x0](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/0x0)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/11 "2025-03-27T00:59:21Z")
no disrespect meant for your hard work here, but from perspective on regular user…
When we speak about confusion, please address this abandonware link:
> **[Xibo for Linux | Xibo Open Source Digital Signage](https://xibosignage.com/xibo-for-linux)**
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> The Xibo for Linux Player is an Open source, native player for Linux, brought to you by our community.
Who knows how many people have went into this rabbit hole and tried to do following: download snapd system just to be able to use snap technology for Xibo linux player and have of course miserably failed, only to waste even more time from each of them to search for answer why it does not work, and just to finally find out that this Xibo snap linux player is not supported at all for past 2 years …
There are still people trying … This would have save people countless hours of trying to run it …
I am one of them.
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/12 "2025-03-27T09:22:33Z")
I’ll pass that feedback on, and again assure you that we are working on a replacement for the community developed player.
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### Author:  [@0x0](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/0x0)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/13 "2025-03-28T11:56:46Z")
As I said, people are still trying after 2 years …
Just as another failed example few minutes ago:
> [@Xibo Player on Ubuntu not show media elements on Webpage component](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/xibo-player-on-ubuntu-not-show-media-elements-on-webpage-component/34941):
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> Hello, i have xibo v3.00 on a server and several players on windows and linux. My layout only have a webpage component with a link to show on player. this link is a react page that lods media elements (images and webm videos) from a backen. Now i installed a player on a ubuntu pc with last version of ubuntu but player dos not show any content. Can someone please help me? Note: it works on windows player.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_S](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Paul_S)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/15 "2025-04-25T15:14:49Z")
+1 on this, the linux status should be clear. I was about to enter this rabbit hole. What can we expect then for the linux player? Now only windows is available for self-hosted and license-free ?
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### Author:  [@0x0](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/0x0)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/16 "2025-04-25T22:11:57Z")
for info its best to join beta test community and/or just wait for more info each month.
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### Author:  [@jweinstein](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/jweinstein)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/17 "2025-05-06T14:33:23Z")
@dan Is there any way to get access to the new Linux client beta?
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/18 "2025-05-08T08:37:11Z")
The website has been updated to make it clearer the current status of the existing community player, as suggested earlier in this topic.
We have started collecting together users who are interested in beta testing the Linux Player, in preparation for a series of alpha/beta releases in the future.
Our work has progressed to implementing more of the shared libraries which will be used across the Xibo player ecosystem, including the Linux Player. These will be added to GitHub under the LGPL licence as they are tested and confirmed to be working, just as we have done with XLR (the first of these libraries).
The plan is to use ElectronJS to produce a player application for Windows and Linux on a shared platform, as already mentioned above. We have not made significant progress as our focus is the shared libraries which will be used.
I want to make it clear to everyone waiting or interested in a Linux Player that we are actively working on it and committing significant time and effort to it. However, I am not in a position to commit to a date at this time.
We are also working regularly on our existing Windows Player and there will be updates to that shortly to support more v4 functionality, such as schedule criteria.
Thanks everyone!
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### Author:  [@0x0](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/0x0)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/19 "2025-05-08T09:35:38Z")
@dan, thanks for Info!
if possible could you share/communicate with users/beta-tester something like one time monthly dev progress or something so people know is being worked on and its not abandoned as palyers before ?
beta testers are waiting patiently, but silence is hard as you can see …
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### Author:  [@dan](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/dan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/20 "2025-05-08T13:46:28Z")
I understand, we will make more regular updates in future, even if the update is small.
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### Author:  [@natasha](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/natasha)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-status-and-plans/29612/21 "2025-05-08T14:45:48Z")
Hi all, for your awareness we now have a separate [Linux Beta Tester](https://community.xibo.org.uk/g/Linux_Beta_Testers) group (which those of you who expressed Linux testing in requests, should now be a member of). You can of course be a member in both groups should you wish to be a part of all our beta tests so do dm me if you want to be added 🙂
Thank you for your continued support!
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