GnomeLama (Linux Copilot)

GnomeLama is an integration between Ollama (the open source local ai project) and gnome. Trying to bring windows copilot to linux with more functionality.

Features

• Model selection (changing models)
• Clearing history
• Chat messaging
• Chat panel
• Running bash commands
• Settings to change things
• ChatGpt Api
• Files

Known Issues

-File response, some models do not follow the proper formatting, and sometimes use the formatting when they shouldn't

-When opening the chat panel for the first time, the input field is unselectable unless you open and close the panel or go into overview

-Weird compression of long AI response text and code blocks

If you find any other issues, please make an issue request in the issues tab.

Features In Progress

• File editing
• Tutorial/showcase video

Installation

Note

This extension is only for Gnome (desktop environment) on Linux.

1. Clone this repository to your GNOME extensions directory:

   git clone https://github.com/TheoThePerson/GnomeLama.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/linux-copilot@TheoThePerson

2. Enable the extension:

   gnome-extensions enable GnomeLama

3. (Optional) Restart GNOME Shell (Alt + F2, then type r and press Enter).

Screenshots

Document Format Support

The extension now supports viewing various document formats beyond simple text files:

• Text files (.txt, .md, .json, .xml, .html, etc.)
• Word documents (.doc, .docx)
• OpenDocument Text (.odt)
• PDF documents (.pdf)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)

File Upload

To enable using these documents with the extension you need to install:

• For .docx files: docx2txt
• For .odt files: odt2txt
• For .doc files: catdoc
• For .rtf files: unrtf
• For .pdf files: pdftotext (usually part of the poppler-utils package)

On Debian/Ubuntu-based systems, you can install these with:

sudo apt install docx2txt odt2txt catdoc unrtf poppler-utils

On Fedora/RHEL-based systems:

sudo dnf install docx2txt odt2txt catdoc unrtf poppler-utils

On Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S catdoc poppler
yay -S docx2txt odt2txt unrtf

PDF Handling

For PDF files, the extension uses pdftotext to extract text content. Please note:

• PDF files that are primarily image-based (scanned documents) may not show any text content
• Password-protected PDFs cannot be displayed
• Some PDFs with complex layouts may not convert perfectly
• Converting large PDFs may take a moment

Contributing

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add new feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature-branch).
5. Create a new Pull Request.

If you want a model or platform integrated that is not available yet, please feel free to request it in the issues tab.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.