Installation

From a GitHub Release

Each GitHub Release includes a prebuilt sift-tray archive alongside sift itself, for:

Linux x86_64
macOS x86_64
macOS aarch64

There’s no prebuilt Linux aarch64 archive yet, and no Windows build at all — see Platform Support.

Download and extract it next to your installed sift binary (typically ~/.local/bin) — the same as any other release archive. install.sh doesn’t fetch it automatically yet, so this is a manual step for now.

Build from source

cargo build -p sift-tray --release
./target/release/sift-tray

On Debian/Ubuntu, the GTK/AppIndicator headers it links against:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev libxdo-dev

Running it

sift watch tray

Launches sift-tray explicitly and reports exactly what happened — already running, started, not installed, or spawned but never came up. See Auto-launch Behavior for the difference between this and the automatic launch watch start/resume already attempt on their own.

Overview — what the tray app does once it’s running.