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Update dashboard docs: Tray icon support is currently limited to Windows
Adjust docs to be more vague and therefore safe (even if we change this again)
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## The Serena Dashboard
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The dashboard is a web application, which is opened via a native application wrapper on Windows and macOS,
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The dashboard is a web application, which is opened via a native application wrapper on supported platforms (e.g. Windows),
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where it will appear in the system tray. **Click on the tray icon** to open the application window.
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On Linux, native app support is difficult to provide, so the dashboard will be opened in your default web browser instead.
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On other platforms, where native app support is difficult to provide (e.g. Linux), the dashboard will be opened in your default web browser instead.
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By default, the dashboard can be accessed at `http://localhost:24282/dashboard/index.html`,
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but a higher port may be used if the default port is unavailable/multiple instances are running.
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When Serena is started, the Dashboard window is opened by default in order to make users aware of its existence.
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If you prefer not to have this happen (e.g., to avoid focus stealing), you can disable prevent it from opening
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If you prefer not to have this happen (e.g., to avoid focus stealing), you can prevent it from opening
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by setting `web_dashboard_open_on_launch: False` in the [global configuration file](global-config) or by passing `--open-web-dashboard False`
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to the `start-mcp-server` CLI command.
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On Windows and macOS, you can conveniently open the dashboard at any time by clicking on the tray icon, so automatic
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On platforms supporting the tray icon, you can conveniently open the dashboard at any time by clicking on the tray icon, so automatic
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opening is not a requirement to be able to access the dashboard on these platforms.
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On Linux, access to the dashboard is more cumbersome without native app support.
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Yet you may still access it by
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On other platforms, you may still access it by
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* asking the LLM to "open the Serena dashboard", which will open the dashboard in your default browser
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(the tool `open_dashboard` is enabled for this purpose, provided that the dashboard is active,
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not opened by default and the GUI tool, which can provide the URL, is not enabled)

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