eir

A menubar / system-tray app that watches GitHub PRs and Issues.
A from-scratch alternative to Trailer / Neat — macOS, Windows, Linux.

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Features

Tray only

No taskbar entry. Lives as a tray icon with a compact 380×520 popup (auto-expands to fill screen height on macOS).
GitHub OAuth device flow

Sign in once — the token persists across restarts in a per-user config file.
Grouped by repository

PRs and Issues grouped by repo with sticky headers and per-repo unread counts.
Filter tabs

All / Mine / Review Requests / Mentions / Hidden, powered by GitHub search.
Auto-refresh

Silent background polling, 30s–5min interval, fully configurable.
Native notifications

Desktop notifications fire when a new PR or Issue first appears.
Unread tracking

macOS shows the count right on the menubar icon. Windows / Linux surface it through the tray tooltip.
Global shortcut

Ctrl+Shift+E toggles the popup from anywhere. Rebindable from Settings.
Light / dark aware

Template-mode tray icon on macOS and prefers-color-scheme styling everywhere.
Auto-update

In-app updater verifies ed25519 signatures and relaunches into the new version — no reinstall needed.

Download the .dmg for your architecture above.
Open the DMG and drag eir.app into /Applications.
Remove the quarantine attribute so Gatekeeper lets it launch (the bundle is ad-hoc signed — no Apple Developer ID yet):
```
xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/eir.app
```
Launch eir and sign in with the GitHub device flow.

Subsequent launches — including after the in-app updater swaps the binary — don't need the xattr step again.

Download eir_<version>_x64-setup.exe (or the .msi) and run it.
On the SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" dialog, click More info → Run anyway. The build isn't code-signed with an Authenticode certificate yet.
Launch eir from the Start menu and sign in.

Token is stored at %APPDATA%\eir\token. A system tray is required — all stock Windows 10/11 installs have one.

Download eir_<version>_amd64.AppImage and make it executable:

chmod +x eir_*_amd64.AppImage && ./eir_*_amd64.AppImage

Or install the .deb on Debian / Ubuntu derivatives:
```
sudo apt install ./eir_*_amd64.deb
```

A system tray is required. On GNOME, install the AppIndicator Support extension if you don't already have one.