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Set up EdgeOS

Install EdgeOS, put it on a monitor or your XENEON EDGE (in Desktop Mode or Widget Mode) and, if you bought it, activate Premium.

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EdgeOS puts a dashboard of widgets on your monitors and the XENEON EDGE, laid out per profile. You'll install the app, choose where it shows and pick a starter layout. EdgeOS is free; Premium is an optional one-time upgrade.

Before you start

Install

Download EdgeOS

Download EdgeOS Setup.exe, or find it on the Downloads page. It's about 80 MB.

Run the installer

Double-click EdgeOS Setup.exe. It installs EdgeOS for your Windows account, with no admin prompt, and starts it.

Follow the first-time setup

EdgeOS opens Set up EdgeOS the first time it runs:

  1. Find your Edge. EdgeOS looks for the XENEON EDGE and shows its size and whether iCUE is running. If you use the Edge through iCUE, start iCUE first.
  2. Choose a mode. Desktop Mode fills the Edge when it's a Windows screen. Widget Mode runs EdgeOS as a widget inside iCUE, next to your other widgets.
  3. Pick a layout. Start from one of the ready-made layouts. You can change every tile later on the Layout page.

You can run it again any time from Settings → First-time setup → Replay setup.

Widget Mode only: add EdgeOS to iCUE

  1. In iCUE, open XENEON EDGE → Widgets.
  2. Import edgeos.icuewidget. The Show the widget file button in the setup finds it for you.
  3. Put the EdgeOS widget on a screen page.

See Install an iCUE widget if you haven't imported one before.

If the Edge has no picture, iCUE doesn't list it, or touch lands on the wrong screen, see XENEON EDGE not working.

Use EdgeOS on a monitor

Open Settings → Screens and switch on the monitor you want. Each monitor gets its own layout, which you arrange on the Layout page. For each monitor you can set:

  • Show: Desktop only keeps EdgeOS on your desktop, behind your apps. Always keeps it over every window.
  • Background: Dashboard, or Transparent, so your wallpaper shows between the widgets and clicks there reach your desktop.
  • Taskbar: show or hide the Windows taskbar on that monitor.

Free shows EdgeOS on one screen at a time, so switching a monitor on moves EdgeOS there. Premium runs it on the Edge and all your monitors at once.

Activate Premium

Premium adds your own profiles, custom colours, automation and more. It's a single payment for a lifetime key that works on one PC.

  1. Buy EdgeOS Premium. Your key arrives by email and also shows under Account → Orders if you bought it with your account email.
  2. In EdgeOS, open Settings → License, paste the key and click Activate.

Activating needs the internet once. After that, EdgeOS checks in with qaemdev.com in the background and Premium keeps working offline between check-ins.

Make it yours

  • Widgets lists every built-in widget and the ones you import. Build your own with plain HTML.
  • Skins installs a whole look for the Edge from one .edgeskin file. See EdgeOS skins.
  • Appearance → Text size scales the text in every widget at once.

Updates

EdgeOS updates itself from qaemdev.com. It checks every few hours, or straight away from Settings → Check for updates.

Uninstall

Go to Settings → Apps → EdgeOS in Windows. Your settings, layouts and imported widgets live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\EdgeOS and stay there, so reinstalling picks up where you left off. Delete that folder too if you want them gone.