Download Xenon

The newest release for every platform, straight from GitHub. Free, no account, and it updates itself after this.

Last updated: 13 September 2026 · current release 4.11.8

Xenon on Linux: the .deb and .rpm packages, what the first launch sets up, and an honest table of what works and what does not yet.

Every file above is the newest release, straight from GitHub. All files for this release, including the checksums, are on the release page.

01What happens after the download

Windows. Run the installer. It installs the app, which opens by itself, finds no dashboard engine yet and offers Complete setup. Press it once: a window opens and installs Node.js, the sensor readers and the task that starts Xenon when you sign in, showing you each step. The download is verified against the project's signing key before anything runs. It takes a few minutes and happens once.

macOS and Linux. Open the app you downloaded. Its first launch offers to set the dashboard up in a terminal window, verifying the download before extracting it. On Linux the package deliberately does not do that for you, because everything it would create belongs to one user account and a package installs as root for the whole machine.

Then Xenon asks which screen it should live on. A spare monitor, a tablet, your phone or a CORSAIR Xeneon Edge all work; the phone guide covers pairing a phone or tablet in about thirty seconds.

02If Windows warns you about the file

That can happen, and the honest reason is that the installer is not code-signed yet. A certificate is a paid, identity-verified thing and this is a free one-person project; supporters are funding the first year. Until then, an unsigned installer that few people have downloaded starts from zero reputation with Windows, and each release resets the counter. The FAQ explains the two kinds of warning and how to get the file back; this page lists every process Xenon runs, for the reader who wants to know exactly what is being installed.

03Check the file yourself

Every release ships a SHA256SUMS file signed with the project's Ed25519 key. Compare the hash of what you downloaded:

Get-FileHash .\Xenon-Setup-x64.exe -Algorithm SHA256        # Windows, PowerShell
shasum -a 256 Xenon-macOS-universal.dmg                       # macOS
sha256sum Xenon-Linux-x86_64.AppImage                          # Linux

If it matches the line for that file in the release's SHA256SUMS, the file is byte for byte the one GitHub Actions built from the public source at that tag.

04Other ways to install

From source. Download the source code zip from the release, extract it, and run INSTALL.bat on Windows, INSTALL.command on macOS or ./INSTALL.sh on Linux. Same result as the installer, for people who would rather read what runs.

winget. The package manifests are written and waiting on a release that scans clean at Microsoft's end; until it is listed, the installer above is the way. This page will say winget install xenon the day that changes.

Updating. Xenon checks for a new release when it starts and updates itself. You never need to come back here for that.