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we stay rolling (semi automated) to latest releases from anthropic/claude-desktop, 1.569.0

@skint007 Thanks, for the note. Its fixed!

Bash validation step was added to CI/CD Pipeline, issues like that will be prevented in the future.

After updating I had an issue where the /usr/bin/claude-desktop file had 2 spaces at the first line, making it not launch from the desktop file.

 #!/usr/bin/env bash

So the fix is to remove the spaces and it works fine

Anthropic added a "teach" tool to computer use. The MCP is back and now linux compatible.

Also x11 & wayland compatibility was improved (https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-27-v119134).

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin?tab=readme-ov-file#computer-use

Anthropic removed the built-in computer-use MCP server upstream — we've removed it here too.

• Some fixes and changes landed as well: https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Also new:

• experimental custom theming support — you can now style Claude Desktop with themes (Nord, Catppuccin, and more) or build your own:

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin?tab=readme-ov-file#custom-themes-experimental

Anthropic released a "built in computer-use mcp server". Now you can prompt against your desktop, so now you can do that using claude-desktop-bin as well.

tl;dr

• Desktop automation (screenshot, click, type, scroll) via xdotool and scrot (X11; optional deps)

Limitation:

• claude-desktop has a max 1mb screenshot limit (their api is even lower due to base64 conversion)

• For multi screen setups: When you prompt claude to capture and read a screenshot, its will capture the monitor of the current cursor position with quality 40%. (see: https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/patches/computer-use-server.js#L85)

https://status.claude.com/

claude desktop had technical issues today, they fixed it after ~4 hours.

@j1simon Right! Adjusted.

The correct Upstream URL would be https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/

Claude Desktop 1.1.4173 contains a lot of fixes. in parallel i have also updated the linux cowork service https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/claude-cowork-service

• plugins are now executed properly in cowork

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2026-02-24

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-cowork-service/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#107--2026-02-24