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@apaur thats strange to hear and we need to fix that. but first: "tray-icon.png" is not in use, its using /usr/lib/claude-desktop-bin/resources/locales/TrayIconTemplate-Dark.png statically.

Maybe thats the issue you describe (that its a white icon on a white tray?). i assume that because the "TrayIconTemplate.png" in your cp command is the black one. Can you confirm?

Tray icon missing after update (again)

After updating, the tray icon disappears — same issue as the previous version. Fix:

sudo cp /usr/lib/claude-desktop-bin/resources/locales/TrayIconTemplate.png /usr/lib/claude-desktop-bin/resources/tray-icon.png

@patrickjaja This needs to be re-run after every (recent) update since the copy gets overwritten. Might be worth adding a post_install/post_upgrade hook to the PKGBUILD.

Also, super grateful for you maintaining this!! Keep up the great work <3

@enghausen thanks for your help, this makes me calm again. I had to do lot of infrastructure changes and was very worried when seeing breaking installations. Great you also catched the GlobalShortcuts electron (40.6.1+) fix.

@patrickjaja Updated to -6, works perfectly. Bundled electron 41 launches without issues and the global shortcuts prompt now appears as expected. Nice fix, thanks for the quick turnaround.

@enghausen do you mind to update to -6 and report back?

Same issue as @papa33. After installing 1.3109.0-5, claude-desktop exits silently. Running the binary directly shows missing libffmpeg.so, then missing icudtl.dat, and several other electron runtime files. What fixed it for me was removing the bundled binary (com.anthropic.claude-desktop) so the launcher falls back to system electron. Not sure if that's the right fix, but it works.

@asm0dey i was referencing this copy command

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=claude-desktop-bin#n49

cp "$electron_bin" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/com.anthropic.claude-desktop"

But since https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/electron/ is outdated and missing wayland fixes, i like to bundle electron (as doing for .deb / .rpm) (less complexity)

@patrickjaja copy from where to where?

@fieldnote-echo @papa33 Thanks for the report & sorry for breaking the installation. This one is hard to be covered by my pipeline (i have worked on further wayland support this included to rename the electron binary for the process it spawns and proper permission delegation).

I could reproduce it locally, but it's happening when /home is on a separate filesystem (btrfs subvolume or different partition). Hard links can't cross filesystem boundaries.

As suggested, cp is a better solution and it's implemented.

Feel free to try it again, feedback is very much appreciated (on my system everything is on the same partition).

File "/usr/lib/claude-desktop-bin/com.anthropic.claude-desktop" from package "claude-desktop-bin" is missing dependency "libffmpeg.so"