HowTo: Install Mind-Mapping LabyRinth Tool

Do you need a mind-mapping tool for linux? How about an abstract representation and map of ideas, analogies, symbols, plans and funny snappy things that comes in our mind from time to time to be drawn from a linux tool?

Introducing Labyringth

Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using Gtk and Cairo to do the drawing. Labyrinth is intended to be as light, easy to operate, user-friendly and intuitive as much as possible, but still designed to provide a wide range of powerful mind-mapping features.

A mind-map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.

Highlighted Labyringth Features

# Open maps from the command line (allowing Beagle to work with labyrinth properly) - Kevin Kubasik (Issue #3)
# Add "Further Info" to all thoughts allowing further notes to be attached to any thought. Some work borrowed from Gourmet Recipe Manager (http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/)
# Store maximised state for maps across saves
# Export as Image (png and jpeg)
# Selecting text within thought now works
# Cut / copy / paste using clipboard and primary selection
# Much improved handling of multibyte characters and non-English keyboard layouts
# Massively cool new tango-ified icon (Josef Vybíral)
# Large Browser internal rework. Added optional trayicon (disabled by default) Can be enabled by passing --use-tray-icon to labyrinth - First step towards an applet (Andreas Sliwka)

and more.

Labyrinth Installation

Labyrinth is available from other linux distribution like Debian/Ubuntu, Windows, CentOS/Redhat and related OS. Check the download link here. Fedora 8 supports Labyrinth installation via yum, which downloads around 146K of package size.

# yum -y install labyrinth

Upon yum installation, Labyrinth is available from Applications and Productivity Fedora menu.

Binary Execution

# labyrinth

LabyRinth Webshots

Have fun!