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Install kanata-tray with Homebrew

System tray for kanata keyboard remapper. Version 0.8.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

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overview

Package summary

System tray for kanata keyboard remapper

Commands and aliases

  • kanata-tray

history

Project history and usage

Kanata Tray is a desktop tray wrapper for the Kanata keyboard remapper. It gives Kanata users start, stop, pause, preset switching, layer icons, hooks, and multi-instance control from a tray icon instead of a terminal process.

Project history

The repository was created on 2024-02-07 and v0.1.0 was published on 2024-02-09. The README describes it as a simple wrapper for Kanata that works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

The project exists because Kanata itself is primarily a keyboard-remapping engine and CLI. Kanata Tray fills the desktop-control gap, while its README notes that Kanata later gained Windows-only native tray-app support and links to a comparison issue.

Adoption history

Adoption is tied directly to Kanata users who want visible runtime state, quick profile switching, or a friendlier way to start and stop remapping. Homebrew packaging makes the wrapper installable on macOS alongside the `kanata` package.

How it is used

Kanata Tray can run without initial configuration and can generate a TOML configuration file on first run. Users define presets that point at Kanata executables and configuration files, then switch or autorun those presets from the tray.

Why package nerds care

Kanata Tray is a small example of a companion GUI-ish package around a lower-level CLI daemon. The package is not historically broad, but it matters to desktop package catalogs because it turns a powerful keyboard remapper into something a normal workstation session can supervise.

Timeline

  • 2024: rszyma/kanata-tray repository created and v0.1.0 released.
  • 2025: v0.8.0 release added hook-related changes and shutdown fixes.
  • 2025: README documented Kanata v1.6.0 as the minimum supported Kanata version.

Related projects

  • Kanata is the keyboard remapper that Kanata Tray controls.
  • Kanata's Windows-only tray support is adjacent but does not replace Kanata Tray's cross-platform wrapper role.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
kanata-trayexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

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Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.8.0
manager updated2026-07-27
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:kanata-tray
Version0.8.0
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/rszyma/kanata-tray
Repositoryhttps://github.com/rszyma/kanata-tray
Last updated2026-07-27T21:58:36+02:00
Pulseupdated
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

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