Everywhere

Jevie on FinnOS

On FinnOS, Jevie is the launcher: type anywhere on the desktop and the machine answers, tiles your windows and changes its settings.

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Jevie’s palette, as the app draws it. Press a sentence on this page to see it, and to copy it.

Use it Set it up How it works Limits Where it's kept

Use it

Ask

start typing on the desktop, or SuperThe field opens with what you typed
Ctrl+Super+Space and speakYour words run when you stop
15% of 80100 usd to eurAnswered while you type
what is the capital of australiaweather in tokyoAnswers drawn as cards, charts and tables
Pin to the desktopAn answer kept as a window that stays current

Windows and workspaces

tile my windowsstop tilingMain window left, the rest stacked, kept as windows come and go
tile gridtile columnsThe windows arranged once
workspace 2move this window to workspace 3Nine workspaces
move this window to the other screenmirror the displaysSecond display
open news.ycombinator.comThe site in a FinnOS window

The machine

turn on dark modeset volume to 30dim the screenSettings changed
theme nordtheme gruvbox darkThe whole shell and wallpaper recoloured
lock the screensleepLocked, or locked then asleep
finnos actsEverything Jevie changed here, from the machine's own audit log

Set it up

On a FinnOS machine with Jevie's checkout: jevie/finnos/bin/jevie-finnos install.
If asked, run the one command it gives as root to join the finn group.
jevie-finnos doctor · What is wired up and what is missing.

How it works

FinnOS draws the field and the answers itself; Jevie supplies them as you type. Everything Jevie does to the machine goes through FinnOS's one permissioned entry point and is recorded in its audit log. Without Jevie running, the field still finds apps by name.

Limits

Talking needs Jevie's listener model and a microphone.
One live tiling layout (main left) and one keyboard layout (US).
Web windows need Chromium and cannot scroll yet.

Where it's kept

More: docs/finnos.md — the design, the protocol and what was verified.

In Jevie, help finnos answers from this page as you type.

Updated 23 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us