patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra v4.4212.0-2

Claude Desktop 4.4212.0 (patch release 2)

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Claude Desktop 4.4212.0 (patch release 2)

This release provides Claude Desktop version 4.4212.0 pre-patched for Linux.

Installation Options

Arch Linux (pacman Repository - recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install-pacman.sh | sudo bash
sudo pacman -Syu claude-desktop-extra

Arch Linux (manual package)

# x86_64
sudo pacman -U https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/releases/download/v4.4212.0-2/claude-desktop-extra-4.4212.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
# ARM64
sudo pacman -U https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/releases/download/v4.4212.0-2/claude-desktop-extra-4.4212.0-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst

Debian/Ubuntu (APT Repository — recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install claude-desktop-extra

Debian/Ubuntu (manual .deb)

# x86_64
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop-extra_4.4212.0-2_amd64.deb
# ARM64
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop-extra_4.4212.0-2_arm64.deb

Fedora/RHEL (RPM Repository — recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install-rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo dnf install claude-desktop-extra

Fedora/RHEL (manual .rpm)

# x86_64
sudo dnf install ./claude-desktop-extra-4.4212.0-2.x86_64.rpm
# ARM64
sudo dnf install ./claude-desktop-extra-4.4212.0-2.aarch64.rpm

NixOS / Nix

nix run github:patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra

AppImage (Any Distro)

# x86_64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-4.4212.0-x86_64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-4.4212.0-x86_64.AppImage
# ARM64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-4.4212.0-aarch64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-4.4212.0-aarch64.AppImage

Update existing AppImage (delta download — only changed blocks):

appimageupdatetool Claude_Desktop-*-x86_64.AppImage
# Or from within the AppImage:
./Claude_Desktop-*-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-update

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Changes since last release

From CHANGELOG.md, 2026-10-30:

Tray icon follows the theme again, with an "always white" switch (#305)

• The Linux tray glyph is white on GNOME and in dark mode, black in light mode, like the stock app, so it no longer disappears on a light panel such as KDE Plasma with a light theme. It follows Claude's Appearance setting; with Appearance = System it follows the desktop color scheme.
• New Community switch "Always use the white tray icon" (Settings -> Extra -> Community -> Tray, key trayIconAlwaysWhite in claude-desktop-extra.json) keeps the white glyph, for a dark panel with a light Claude theme or a bar that reports no color scheme (sway, Hyprland or waybar without a portal color-scheme). Off by default, applies live without a restart, and a true/false in claude-desktop-extra.jsonc locks it. Turn it on to keep the previous always-white behavior.

Upstream v4.4212.0

• Custom models re-fitted. The Code session's env builder is now a free function the buildSessionEnv method forwards to, with the base config one parameter further right; add_feature_custom_models sub-patch B finds the function through the method and splices cliEnv() there.
• "Load large sessions in full" keeps upstream's new history window. The session manager's limits now also carry historyWindowBytes, historyRequestBytes, historyScanChunkBytes and historyReadDeadlineMs. They belong to a paged history reader that nothing calls yet, so the feature still matters. The heavy-work worker's helper returned only our four sizes, which would have left those keys undefined in the worker once that reader is used; it now overrides the four sizes and keeps the rest, and add_feature_transcript_limits_worker matches the longer literal.
• Extra -> Deployment lists the new managed keys projectsEnabled, mcpAppWidgetsEnabled and sessionStatusLine (201 keys).
• --diagnose and --reset-screen-sharing stay bounded on Ubuntu 26.04. Its default timeout (uutils) sends a KILL to the direct child only, so a hung Computer Use bridge that left a child running made the launcher wait for that child. Bridge calls now time out with TERM followed by KILL a second later, which ends the whole process group with both GNU and uutils timeout.
• Audited: feature flags (672 -> 695; the one new Linux-facing gate, 1116624256, stops a bare Alt tap from opening the app menu on GNOME, matching upstream's release note), platform gates (no new macOS/Windows-only feature that Linux lacks), built-in MCP servers (no roster change), the ion-dist setup window (both ion patches apply unchanged) and the custom-models anchors. Electron stays 44.9.3, Claude Code 2.1.309.

Links

• Full Changelog