Updating

The kakemono app checks for a new release when you open Settings. It checks again when you come back to Settings after an hour or more.

Update from the banner

When a new release is out, a banner at the top of Settings shows the new version. The banner has three buttons:

• Update downloads the new version, checks its signature, installs it, and restarts kakemono. The daemon stops for the install, and the new app starts the daemon again.
• What’s new opens the release page.
• Later hides the banner until the next version.

On Linux, updating a .deb or .rpm install asks for your password, because the package installs system-wide.

For a build that is not from a release package, such as one from cargo build, the banner links to the release page instead.

Update with a package manager

If a package manager installed kakemono, update it there instead. The banner names the command.

Installed with	Update with
Homebrew cask	Update in the banner, or brew upgrade --cask kakemono
winget	Update in the banner, or winget upgrade RielJ.kakemono
Scoop	scoop update kakemono
AUR	Your AUR helper, for example yay -Syu

Update the command-line tool

The command-line tool on its own does not update itself. To update it, download the new archive and install it the same way as the first time. See Command-line tool only.