Kryton Desktop

Cross-platform desktop client for Kryton. A Tauri-based native shell around the Kryton web UI with multi-account support, system tray, global shortcuts, deep links, and native notifications.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev

You'll need a running Kryton server. The easiest way:

cd ../kryton
docker compose up -d

Then add http://localhost:8080 as a server in the Kryton Desktop login window.

Building

pnpm tauri build

Releases

Tag with vX.Y.Z-pre.N for pre-releases or vX.Y.Z for stable. GitHub Actions builds for macOS (Intel + ARM), Windows, and Linux, signs the artifacts, and uploads them to a GitHub release.

Before cutting the first release tag, generate a Tauri updater key and store it:

pnpm tauri signer generate -w ~/.tauri/kryton-updater.key

Then:

• Paste the printed public key into src-tauri/tauri.conf.json under plugins.updater.pubkey, replacing the REPLACE_WITH_TAURI_SIGNER_PUBLIC_KEY placeholder.
• Add the private key file contents to GitHub repo secrets as TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY, and its password (if set) as TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD.

Required CI secrets

• TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY, TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD — updater signing
• APPLE_CERTIFICATE, APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD, APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY, APPLE_ID, APPLE_PASSWORD, APPLE_TEAM_ID — macOS Developer ID signing + notarization
• WINDOWS_CERTIFICATE, WINDOWS_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD — optional Authenticode (without these, the MSI is produced unsigned and Windows SmartScreen will warn)

License

Apache-2.0