Tiki Head Linux

Screenshots

A look around

Tiki Head 0.1 running live from the ISO, and the art drawn for it.

On screen

The Tiki Head GNOME desktop: a dock on the left with QGIS, Firefox, Files, Terminal, Jupyter, JOSM, Maps and Visual Studio Code, over a dark blue nautical chart of the Hawaiian Islands with a compass rose and the words Tiki Head.

The desktop Screenshot

Booted from a USB stick, straight to the desktop. The GIS tools are already in the dock, and the installer and your Home folder sit on the right.

Captured by the linuxlive build test of Tiki Head 0.1, 15 October 2026. Full size

QGIS 3.40 maximised on the Tiki Head desktop with the project “Tiki Head: the world at 1:50 million”: cream countries, blue rivers and lakes and red dots for populated places on a pale blue sea, with the Browser and Layers panels on the left.

QGIS with the sample world map Screenshot

The sample project: Natural Earth’s world at 1:50 million, styled like a chart, in QGIS 3.40.

Captured in the Tiki Head 0.1 live session, 16 October 2026. Full size

A terminal over the Tiki Head wallpaper: ogrinfo lists the five layers of the sample GeoPackage, ogr2ogr reprojects the countries to Equal Earth, and cs2cs converts Honolulu to UTM zone 4N.

GDAL and PROJ in the terminal Screenshot

ogrinfo, ogr2ogr and cs2cs at work on the sample data, as in the how-tos on the applications page.

Captured in the Tiki Head 0.1 live session, 16 October 2026. Full size

Jupyter Notebook in Chromium on the Tiki Head desktop: GeoPandas reads the sample countries, a table lists the five most populous, and a map of the world in the Equal Earth projection shades each country by population, darkest for China and India.

A notebook in Jupyter Screenshot

GeoPandas reads the sample GeoPackage and maps the world’s population in two cells.

Captured in the Tiki Head 0.1 live session, 16 October 2026. Full size

The Files app open on the GIS folder in the live session: Projects, Sample data (a read-only link) and README.md, with GIS bookmarked in the sidebar, over the Tiki Head wallpaper.

Your GIS folder Screenshot

Made at first login and bookmarked in Files: the sample data, a Projects folder and a short guide.

Captured in the Tiki Head 0.1 live session, 16 October 2026. Full size

JOSM, the Java OpenStreetMap Editor, maximised with an extract of Waikiki in Honolulu: building outlines, footpaths and icons for cafes, restaurants and parking along the beach, with the Layers, Tags and Relations panels on the right.

JOSM editing OpenStreetMap Screenshot

A few blocks of Waikiki downloaded from OpenStreetMap and opened in JOSM, ready to edit.

Captured in the Tiki Head 0.1 live session, 16 October 2026. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Full size

Artwork

Free to use under CC0.

A nautical chart of the main Hawaiian Islands from Oahu to the Big Island, with depth contours, a graticule labelled in degrees, a compass rose and the words Tiki Head.

The wallpaper Artwork

A nautical chart of the Hawaiian Islands, drawn from real elevation data. Free to use (CC0); the full-size link is 2560 by 1440.

Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data: USGS on land, NOAA ETOPO1 at sea, both public domain. Full size

See the rest for yourself

The quickest tour is the live session: start it in a virtual machine or from a USB stick, and nothing on your computer changes.

Download the ISO Try it in a virtual machine