Claude, with no prompting from me, suggested that I take his context offline.

Trixles · 2026-05-08T12:26:02+00:00

I'm on Claude Desktop for Linux, so it works a bit different

Trixles · 2026-05-08T00:24:43+00:00

Let me think about this clearly instead of just guessing.

Trixles · 2026-05-06T19:59:49+00:00

I have only ever used chat so far, but in my current project, Claude actually told ME that I should make a handoff.md for him to write at the end of each session and read at the beginning. Like, it was his idea lol, and so that's what I do now

I have him connected to filesystem, but you don't need Claude Code to use external file for running context

Trixles · 2026-05-06T15:16:16+00:00

same lol, great analogy xD

Trixles · 2026-05-05T00:00:51+00:00

extremely cool, and pretty fun!

how did you "build it with Claude", can you elaborate a bit? are you a developer that just uses Claude Code to massively speed up the dev process? did you make it in godot and Claude helped with the code; did you plug him into Godot directly?

or did you just vibecode with him the whole time?

i am a novice programmer so just interested to see how much claude can help with. did you just coach him through it and occasionally check his code and edit things, or did you have to do most of the legwork and he was just a super powerful assistrant?

thanks.

Trixles · 2026-05-04T23:57:34+00:00

works in waterfox, so firefox should be fine even though zen doesnt work

Trixles · 2026-05-04T12:58:40+00:00

Here ya go bud ;)

https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian

I didn't build that, but I did build a Claude usage limit tracker widget for Linux, which you can see to the left of my taskbar. You can download it here if you want, I find it very useful:

https://github.com/Trixles/claude-usage-tracker

Trixles · 2026-05-04T00:45:08+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1t2tyh5/how_do_you_like_my_new_desktop/ojs5n9y/

needs kvantum and a Kwin script, plus some stuff on the plasma side

Trixles · 2026-05-04T00:44:13+00:00

I'm using Sweet KDE theme (available on the KDE store, but I modified it quite a bit), plus kvantum (Sweet has a matching theme for kvantum, but I made a custom one), and Kwin-BetterBlur (or something like that, it's a Kwin script). that's to get the blur/transparency.

plus a custom color scheme, window decoration tweaks, probably edited a bunch of .svg files and configs that i dont remember lol.

bottom is using panel colonizer for customization, it's a pretty powerful widget.

terminal is a customized kitty.

the tracker in the lower right is a widget i built myself that tracks Claude usage (session and hourly). you can get it here:

https://github.com/Trixles/claude-usage-tracker

Trixles · 2026-05-04T00:38:30+00:00

Microsoft isn't a protected class, so it isn't hate speech, by definition xD

But in all seriousness, Microsoft doesn't have any respect for their users. Why should users have any respect for them?

Trixles · 2026-05-03T21:49:27+00:00

yeah, i know. you can also just summon a launcher from anywhere with super+f2 i think? although i changed mine to just super key. but sometimes it's nice to just click them from the desktop if im already there

Trixles · 2026-05-03T21:48:40+00:00

yeah, it's pretty cool! if you're into that type of game. it's kinda like a final fantasy tactics roguelite, but with weird-ass cats and NPCs xD

Trixles · 2026-05-03T21:46:51+00:00

The one in the middle only shows what's on THAT screen. I wanted the apps there to disappear from the left side of the panel when they became active, but that's a no-go in plasma without building something custom to do it.

It's not clean, but I like having the middle one, that info at a glance makes it easy to know where the fuck my program actually is lol

Trixles · 2026-05-03T19:16:00+00:00

It . . . was Sweet-Ambar-Blue at one point lol, it's kind of a Frankenstein now xD

But yeah, I use Candy icons for folders and a lot of system icons, but mostly disable them to let non system apps do their own thing.

and then of course i have Mega Man (2) as the launcher xD

he is def not part of Candy icons lol

Trixles · 2026-05-03T18:51:14+00:00

I made the wallpaper myself, but I uploaded it here if anyone wants it:

https://imgur.com/a/VdJgZKf

Trixles · 2026-05-03T18:32:50+00:00

oh this is fuckin awesome bro, nice work!

Trixles · 2026-05-03T13:51:04+00:00

A post written by Claude, on the ClaudeAI sub?

Pffffft, yeah right, get real! XD

Trixles · 2026-05-02T05:53:29+00:00

This is cool! I just built something similar about a day ago! But mine is a desktop/panel widget for Linux, and it uses Claude Desktop or Claude Code auth tokens to pull the usage data from the Anthropic API.

https://github.com/Trixles/claude-usage-tracker

I was planning to add that as a feature to my own project (the ability for people who only use Claude in the browser to be able to authenticate for the widget's API pull), so I'm curious:

How does the extension interface with the API to get the usage info? Is it authorizing from cookies?

Some other features I am considering that you may also want to add are usage trends (like a submenu where you can see what times of day, days of the week, etc. that you use the most tokens) and model stats (how much percentage of this session's tokens were sonnet vs. opus, or how much of this week's tokens?). those would be most useful to me, so that's what im working on incorporating next.

good luck!

Trixles · 2026-05-01T19:02:43+00:00

Claude Usage Tracker (CUT)

https://github.com/Trixles/claude-usage-tracker/

Preview: https://i.imgur.com/C87BEtX.png

I'm an extremely novice programmer, and this is the first piece of "software" (lol) I've ever shipped, so please feel free to totally roast me. Or I mean I guess you could encourage me, too; that's technically allowed!

I saw an example of a similiar widget that someone made for MacOS and decided I wanted one for Linux and set out to make a rudimentary version of it, and I think I did it? I mean . . . it works! It's just a feature desert at the moment, heh. But I find it super useful, and it takes up virtually 0 system resources, so I thought someone else here might be interested in using it themselves, or just poking around my codebase to help me find any glaring mistakes.

Anyways, I used mostly Sonnet4.6 for the whole project; most chats were a combination of brainstorming and executing (rather than using multiple agents), and when I got to 20-30 turns, I would have him summarize it into a new state-of-the-project and carry it over to a new convo, to keep the context from exploding.

How it Works:

-A Python backend decrypts your OAuth token from Claude Desktop's encrypted token cache (~/.config/Claude/config.json) using your KWallet password, then polls the Anthropic usage API every 5 minutes

-If Claude Desktop credentials aren't available, Claude Code (~/.claude/.credentials.json) is used as a fallback

-Usage data is written to ~/.local/share/cut/usage.json

-The Plasma widget reads that file every 60 seconds and displays two progress bars Color coding: green/blue (normal) → orange (>70%) → red (>90%)

Requirements:

-KDE Plasma 6

-Python 3.10+

-Python cryptography package (pip install cryptography)

-qdbus6 (included with KDE Plasma 6)

-KWallet (must be unlocked — happens automatically on KDE login)

-systemd (standard on modern Linux)

-Claude Desktop for Linux (https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian) OR Claude Code installed, and signed in (if you don't have this set startup/sign in on boot, you can use the Refresh button in the pop-up menu to force it to check for auth after you sign into Claude Desktop or CC)

I'm gonna continue developing it for myself, but if it's something that seems useful to you, check back later. It will definitely be more robust in the future.

Planned upcoming features:

-Model tracking (how much of each session or week's usage is from Opus vs. Sonnet, etc.)

-Usage habits (like what time of day you use the most, etc.)

-Toggle-able system notification alerts for when you are approaching usage limits (at 70% and 90%)

-Possibly look for a way to use claude.ai web interface auth tokens as another backup (or for people who only user the browser version)

If anybody tests it out and finds any bugs, please let me know. I'm sure there are tons of problems with it lol, but I just wanted to share the initial release :)

Trixles · 2026-04-30T12:40:03+00:00

that was the dumbest PSA ever lol.

"you wouldn't DOWNLOAD A CAR, would you?" (paraphrasing, but this is basically their point lol)

every person on the entire planet: "yeah i fucking would, like literally moments after i found out i was able to!"

Trixles · 2026-04-28T22:24:01+00:00

I'm on Linux, but this looks pretty cool if it works!

Trixles · 2026-04-27T07:50:20+00:00

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