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Wixi — A Desktop Wiki

January 28th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 3 Comments

Wixi is a desktop wiki application. This software is written in python and wxpython. It supports multi-platform, includes: Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. With Wixi, you can manage knowledge, take notes, record ideas and so on.

Running Wixi

To install Wixi on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, you can execute the following steps:

1. Download the latest version of Wixi from here and save to ~/Desktop.

2. Unzip file with these command:

cd ~/Desktop
unzip wixi-1.03-src.zip

3. Install Wixi:

cd wixi-1.03/
sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8
sudo python setup.py install

Now you can run Wixi by typing “wixi” in terminal.

Wixi

Create a new wiki database.

Wixi

Edit a wiki page.

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Tags: Cool Apps

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 TeeLicht // Jan 29, 2008 at 2:59 am

    Funny: Wixi = German for Wanky :)

  • 2 John Gakhokidze // Mar 28, 2008 at 1:16 am

    To get it running on MacOS 10.5 I had to comment
    602 in MainFrame.py
    601 IconSize = “16×16″
    602 # if ‘__WXGTK__’ in wx.PlatformInfo: IconSize = “22×22″
    and set 601
    to
    IconSize=”22×22″

    Can’t get it running on Tiger 10.4.11 with Python 2.5

  • 3 funk // Jul 9, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Thanks, probably saved me some time ^^

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