Xenon v4.8.0 — Claude Code you can drive from the Edge, a folder-fed Slideshow, and a much quieter GPU

The Claude Code widget becomes something you can actually work from: it reads your real plan usage, shows what each session is doing, lets you approve a tool call by tapping the Edge, and now lets you start a session from the touchscreen. Alongside it, a Slideshow that reads a folder on your PC, a safe mode for tracking down a misbehaving install, and a lot of work on how much the dashboard costs your GPU when you are not looking at it.

✨ New

• The Claude Code widget now shows how much of your plan is actually left. It used to read your local session transcripts, which say how many tokens you spent but nothing about your subscription, so the gauge measured you against a weekly ceiling you typed in yourself and then trusted. Claude Code does report the real figures through its status line, and Xenon now reads them: the 5-hour window and the 7-day window, each as the percentage left and a countdown to the reset. Press Collega Claude Code on the widget. It backs your Claude Code settings up first, and if you already had a status line of your own it keeps running yours as well. Scollega puts everything back.
• You can approve what Claude Code is about to do by tapping the Xeneon Edge. When Claude Code asks permission to run a command or write a file, the request appears on your dashboard with the exact command, and Consenti or Nega decides it. You can leave a session running, walk away from the keyboard and keep working from the touchscreen. Anything with a wide blast radius takes over the whole screen immediately. Nothing is ever approved for you: no answer, or Xenon closed, and the question simply goes back to the terminal.
• You can now start Claude Code from the touchscreen, not just watch it. The new Chiedi button: pick a project, type what you want done, and Claude Code starts working in that folder. Progress and the answer come back to the tile. Tapping an existing session sends it a follow-up instead. Every command and file write still comes back to the Edge as a card you have to approve.
• The widget knows what your sessions are really doing, instead of guessing. Each row says whether a session is working, waiting for you, or idle, shows the tool running right now, and appears and disappears the moment it starts and ends.
• The Slideshow widget can show a folder on your PC, with no limit on how many images. Point it at a folder and Xenon shows what is inside without copying anything: add a GIF and it turns up on its own, delete one and it goes away. The request came from someone running an 844-GIF folder who had been keeping a second app open just for this. There is also a new random-order switch.
• Safe mode: one switch that answers "is an installed item causing this?" It temporarily pauses every third-party widget, your custom theme and skin, and any imported background, returning the dashboard to its factory look. Nothing is uninstalled and nothing you configured is touched. It came out of a real report: a user chased abnormal GPU usage for days and had to uninstall everything to find the cause.
• You can pause a single widget without uninstalling it, and Xenon now tells you when a widget is slowing things down, and which one.
• A widget can put a web page on the Xeneon Edge, instead of on your other monitor, through the Browser tile, with touch working properly. It is a new permission you approve at install time.
• The publish portal checks your submission while you type, and shows you exactly what a reviewer will see.

✨ Improvements

• The dashboard stops animating behind full-screen windows, and the GPU with it. Measured on a real report: Settings open went from ~10% GPU to near the dashboard's idle level.
• Dashboard pages you are not looking at stop being drawn. Parked pages no longer render between swipes, so a widget on page 2 costs nothing while you look at page 1.
• CORSAIR RGB control now sets itself up, instead of depending on a file iCUE no longer installs. The component is fetched from CORSAIR's official release and checked against a known fingerprint. If you updated rather than installed fresh, the lighting page offers it as a button.
• RGB devices that appear after Xenon starts are no longer invisible until you restart the server, and a lighting effect that fails now says so instead of reporting success.

🐞 Fixes

• The Settings → Display section has been removed, as a precaution. Since v4.1.0 it let you adjust a monitor's brightness, contrast and colours directly, and included a button that restored the monitor's factory values. Some Xeneon Edge panels that were used with that section later stopped being configurable in iCUE. We cannot yet prove the two are connected, and we have asked CORSAIR to check what that reset command does on the Edge, but rather than wait for the answer with any risk open, the whole section is gone. Nothing about your Xenon settings is affected.
• Uninstalling Xenon now removes the second screen's virtual display too, instead of leaving it registered in Windows forever, and setting the second screen up no longer reports success when it actually failed.
• The kiosk app can no longer open full-screen on a display you cannot see.
• Menus and colour pickers no longer open off the edge of the screen, on the per-widget style editor, the Deck, the lighting widget and the AI model pickers.
• Widgets that come inside a package now ask for their permissions, instead of installing and staying dead, and you can approve them straight from Installed.

The full list, including everything not repeated here, is in CHANGELOG.md.