Install

Gazer is a Windows desktop app. There is no web client.

What you need

• Windows
• Optional: a Tobii Eye Tracker 5 with its drivers (Tobii Experience / Eye Tracking Core). Gazer loads Stream Engine from that install; the DLL is not in the MSI. Without hardware, Gazer uses the mouse as the gaze point (tray / Settings → Setup).
• Optional: a local AutoHotkey install for <AHK> cells (v2 preferred). AutoHotkey is not bundled.
• Optional: ViGEmBus for the virtual Xbox pad. Settings → Setup can download the official driver setup. Gazer ships ViGEmClient.dll next to Gazer.exe.

MSI

Published builds go on GitHub Releases.

The MSI installs to Program Files\Gazer\ with a Start Menu shortcut and a logon entry for Gazer.exe --guard (watchdog). Setup asks whether to add a desktop shortcut and, on the last page, whether to launch Gazer. The shortcut choice is remembered for the next install. A quiet install (msiexec /qn) keeps the shortcut unless you pass INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT=0, and it does not launch Gazer. The Program Files copy is stamped uiAccess=true and signed so it can sit above Task Manager and type/click into elevated windows. A Gazer.exe built in the source tree is left without UIAccess so it still launches from the build directory.

If no release is up yet, build an MSI from the tree: README — Beta MSI.

Testers still need Tobii drivers for hardware gaze. Without a tracker, use the mouse backend.

First launch

Start Gazer. Unless start docked is on, the drawer opens. Dwell a cell until progress completes, then look away (or at another cell). Dock, tray, and shipped boards: Shell.

Closing overlay pages does not quit. Quit → Yes on the dock, or tray Quit, does.

Files and data

Path	Contents
gazer.log	Log in the working directory (rotated copies under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Gazer\logs)
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Gazer\crashes\	Minidumps after a crash or hung-peer takeover
%AppData%\Gazer\settings.json	Prefs (theme, dwell, assist, …). Not the ElevenLabs key.
%AppData%\Gazer\layouts\	User Page XML (overrides shipped ids)
%AppData%\Gazer\secrets\eleven.dpapi	DPAPI-protected ElevenLabs API key
%AppData%\Gazer\ speech store	Soundboard JSON, clips, voice cache, history

Each MSI install deletes settings.json so the next launch writes factory defaults. Speech secrets, clips, and user layouts are left in place.

Build from source

CMake, Qt, tests, and the MSI script: README — Build and run.