Installing Luxe

Below we’ll get the pieces we need to work with luxe.

Download the luxe launcher

Get the luxe launcher
Run the launcher, it’ll offer to install the latest version
This will install the engine, editor and agent

Progress will be shown under the install button

After installing, you should see this

Once you’ve created or added projects, it will look like this

Installing code editor support

Currently the primary supported code editor is Visual Studio Code.

It’s a free cross platform editor with great support for custom extensions. The extension includes features like code completion, jump to definition, and so on.

To install support for luxe, open the extensions panel. This is an icon on the side bar, or found via the View -> Extensions menu.

Search the extensions for ‘luxe’ and when found, select ‘install’.
(Make sure it’s the official one). View the extension in the marketplace..

Linux details

Linux makes things a little more nuanced. We’re working to improve the workflow.

To install the launcher you have a few options:

AppImage

An AppImage is a pre-bundled application ready to use. Once you download it, you might have to make it executable first. This varies by distro, if you double click, some pop up a message asking if you want it executable. Sometimes you can right click and view properties, making it an executable. Othertimes you have a right click -> Run as program option.

If you need to, you can use the terminal:

cd <path where you downloaded it to>
chmod +x luxe_launcher-2025.11.1.AppImage

Zip file

The zip file contains a plain ELF binary. You might need to mark it executable as well. Similar to the app image section, you can use your distro option, or you can use terminal:

cd <path where you downloaded it to>/luxe_launcher-2025.11.1/
chmod +x luxe_launcher-2025.11.1

If your distro still doesn’t let you run it, you might need to run via terminal too:

./luxe_launcher-2025.11.1