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Slack Connect
Your Slack: unread channels and DMs, mentions, your status, away and paused notifications, quick messages and pinned channels.
A built-in widget in EdgeOS, the desktop widget app for Windows 10 and 11. Put it on any monitor or on the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE, at any size, next to your other widgets. It's part of EdgeOS Premium, a one-time $19.99 upgrade.
What you can set
- Design
- Edited design
- Slack workspace
- One sign-in for every widget that uses it, on every screen. The Integrations page lists them all.
- Show
- Unreads · Mentions · Status · Quick send · Pinned channels
- Include
- Channels and DMs · DMs only · Channels only · DMs and mentions only
- Order
- Newest first · Most unread first · DMs first
- Status presets
- One per line: a Slack emoji code, the words, then | and how many minutes it lasts (0 = until you clear it).
- Away button
- Pause notifications for
- Write to
- Quick messages
- A tap sends one. The Write bar takes anything else.
- Ask before sending
- Pinned
- Up to eight. Their newest messages come from Slack about once a minute.
- Rows at most
- The rest scroll inside the tile.
- Hidden
- Slack doesn't tell apps which channels you muted: hide them here instead.
- Row picture
- Photos · Icons · None
- Row backgrounds
- Inbox and Counter.
- Divider lines
- Spacing
- Tight · Normal · Roomy
- Corners
- Icons and photo
- Title
- Count
- Summary
- Message previews
- Counts
- Times
- Updated time
- Slack is checked about once a minute; this says when it last was.
- Title
- Times as
- 5m · 3h · 5 min ago · The time
- Tap a row
- Open in Slack (Status: set it) · Write a message · Nothing
- Hold a row
- Open, write or hide · Open in Slack · Write a message · Nothing
- Tap the title
- Open Slack · Write (Quick send) · Refresh · Nothing
- Hold the title
- Refresh · Open Slack · Nothing
- Counts
- Unset, the accent.
- Mentions and DMs
- Unset, the theme's red.
- Active dot
- Unset, the theme's green.
- Message bar writes to
- Empty: the newest unread DM.
- Message bar
- Keep read ones listed
- Conversations read in the last few hours stay under the unread ones, dimmed.
- Who wrote it, in previews
- Unread counts
- Text on counts
- Auto · Light · Dark · Custom
- Auto picks light or dark text from the colour, so it always reads.
- Text on counts: custom
- Send button
- Text on Send
- Auto · Light · Dark · Custom
- Auto picks light or dark text from the colour, so it always reads.
- Text on Send: custom
- Row cards
- Unset, the theme's panel colour.
- Tile box
- Off, the design floats on the background. On, it sits in a tile like the other widgets.
Parts you can restyle
Each part can be resized, given its own colour, font and background, or hidden, under Customize → Layout.
- Icon
- Title
- Count
- Summary
- Updated
- Big number
- Your status
- Rows and cards
- Photos
- Icons and emoji
- Names
- Messages
- Counts
- Times
- Write bar
- Buttons
- Edge fade
- Notes
Common questions
- Is the EdgeOS Slack Connect widget free?
- No, Slack Connect is a Premium widget. EdgeOS itself is free; Premium is an optional one-time upgrade of $19.99, with no subscription, that adds Slack Connect and the other Premium widgets.
- Do I need a XENEON EDGE to use the Slack Connect widget?
- No. EdgeOS runs on any monitor on Windows 10 or 11, and on the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE in Desktop Mode or, inside iCUE, in Widget Mode.
- What can I change on the Slack Connect widget?
- 49 options, such as design, edited design, slack workspace and show. They're grouped as account, show, design, parts, words, behaviour and colours. Every widget also takes your own font, text size and look.
- Can I move or hide parts of the Slack Connect widget?
- Yes. Its parts (icon, title, count, summary, updated, big number, your status, rows and cards, photos, icons and emoji, names, messages, counts, times, write bar, buttons, edge fade and notes) can each be resized, restyled or hidden under Customize → Layout.