Xiphos
by The Xiphos Developer Team
Bible Study Guide
About
Xiphos is a program for high-grade Bible study using the modules and underlying engine support of The Sword Project. Sword modules provide the widest language coverage of any Bible software anywhere: 400+ Bibles in 150+ languages, with major support for original languages (a dozen each in Hebrew and Greek) plus major support in e.g. English, Russian, German, Portuguese, and French.
- Fully integrated, tabbed interface with Bible+commentary+dictionary - User content support: hierarchical bookmarks, personal verse annotations, journals, prayer lists - Interface translated into 26 languages - Power search capability; footnotes and xrefs; detached windows; text-to-speech support - Strong's and morphology support, including pseudo-interlinear display
- BibleSync shared multicast navigation in personal or speaker/audience modes - Supports Linux and Windows including active support in IRC and mailing lists
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - talks to org.gnome.GConf
--talk-name=org.gnome.GConf
Who publishes this
On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.
- fetches from crosswire.org over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
source:insecure-url - on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.