Previously, installing Prisma® Access Agent on Linux automatically installed the Gnome AppIndicator extension and its dependencies to render the system tray icon, regardless of the desktop environment in use. This forced unneeded packages onto endpoints running KDE or other desktop environments. The installer now detects your desktop environment during installation and installs only the dependencies your environment requires.

On distributions running Gnome, the installer checks for the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator extension and installs it if it is not already present. On distributions running KDE, the agent uses the native KStatusNotifierItem protocol to render the system tray icon, with no additional packages installed. If your distribution uses a desktop environment other than Gnome or KDE, the installer proceeds without installing any UI dependencies and displays a warning that the system tray icon and UI pop-ups may not render correctly. The background agent services continue to function as expected.

This change applies to all supported Linux distributions as well as derivative distributions of supported parent families. You can find the installation procedure, including the warning messages you may encounter during installation, in Install the Prisma Access Agent on Linux.