Lorenz
Lorenz puts three wheels under your cursor while you drag a file: Shift converts it, Ctrl edits it (compress, resize, rotate, split, merge) and Alt acts on it (copy, move, share, open a terminal).
Everything runs locally with the engines installed on your computer, and originals are never modified. No account, server or cloud service is involved; the only network use is a once-a-day check for a newer release, which can be turned off in Settings.
The global drag gesture works on KDE Plasma 6.8 (Wayland) and on Windows. Other Linux desktops get the same wheels from the file manager's context menu. A batch manager in the system tray lists every conversion.
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)
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Usage
Lorenz is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running Lorenz on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Lorenz AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Lorenz
If you want to restrict what Lorenz can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Lorenz
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Lorenz AppImage.
The Lorenz AppImage also can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Using this tool, Lorenz can be updated by downloading only the portions of the AppImage that have actually changed since the last version.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Lorenz and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Lorenz in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Lorenz AppImage
Please consider making the Lorenz AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Lorenz if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.