v1.1.4088 stuck on loading screen - app never renders

[sabiut]

Description

After upgrading from v1.1.3963 to v1.1.4088, Claude Desktop gets stuck on the loading screen when clicking the tray icon. The window never fully renders.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Upgrade from a working version (v1.1.3963) to v1.1.4088
2. Launch Claude Desktop
3. Click the tray icon — app shows loading spinner indefinitely

Expected Behavior

App should open and render the main window.

Actual Behavior

App starts but gets stuck loading. The main process logs show repeated Starting app entries but nothing beyond initialization. main-window.log is never updated, indicating the renderer never loads.

Relevant Logs

2026-02-24 19:06:50 [info] Starting app {
appVersion: '1.1.4088',
isPackaged: true,
platform: 'linux',
arch: 'x64',
nodeVersion: '24.13.1'
}

No further log entries after startup no errors, no window creation.

Workaround

Downgrading to v1.1.4010 resolves the issue.

Environment

• OS: Debian 12 (Linux 6.1.0-40-amd64)
• Arch: x86_64
• Package: claude-desktop_1.1.4088-1.3.12_amd64.deb
• Previous working version: v1.1.3963, v1.1.4010

[aaddrick]

Hey sabiut! This is the same root cause as #252.

The minified Electron variable changed from oe to $e in v1.1.4088. That broke the build patches and produced a SyntaxError: $let _trayStartTime in the generated code. The loading screen hang is consistent with the JS failing entirely because of that error.

The fix landed in PR #253 and shipped in v1.3.13+claude1.1.4088. You're on 1.1.4088-1.3.12, which is the broken build.

Upgrade to v1.3.13+claude1.1.4088 and the loading issue should go away. Closing as a duplicate of #252.

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[aaddrick]

Closing as duplicate of #252.