If peripheral companies like Corsair and Razer have broken you down to where you don’t mind proprietary software using computing resources in perpetuity, you’ll be happy with iCUE’s simple, sensible UI for tweaking things like the size and color of widgets.
But I thought there’d be more widgets—namely calendar and weather ones, as Corsair teased in January promotional images for the Xeneon Edge.
A promotional image of the touchscreen from January shows calendar and weather widgets.
I asked Corsair about this, and a company spokesperson said that the weather and calendar widgets will be available in Q1 2026. Wanting more and improved widgets is a good reason to hold off on buying this monitor (the monitor could potentially be cheaper in the future, too), which just came out today.
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Scharon Harding/Corsair
I’d like to see timer and alarm widgets added to the companion app.
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Scharon Harding/Corsair
Occasionally I had trouble navigating websites within the monitor’s URL widget. It was fine for leaving my favorite website up, for example. But the widget sometimes cut off certain areas, such as menu bars, on other websites. When I used the widget to display the website for an RSS feed reader, I sometimes got logged out when exiting iCUE. When I reopened iCUE, the widget wouldn’t let me type within the widget in order to log back in, unless I had iCUE up on my other screen. Scrolling through the Ars Technica website looked choppy, too. Notably, iCUE emphasizes that “some websites do not permit their content to be displayed in an iFrame.
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Scharon Harding
The Ars Technica website within Corsair’s URL widget.
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Scharon Harding
Corsair’s rep told me that the URL widget uses a “customized flavor of Chromium.” Of course, the widget doesn’t offer nearly the same functionality as a standard browser. You can’t store bookmarks or enter new URLs within the widget, for example.
If the monitor is using widgets, you can’t use it like a regular monitor, so you can’t drag or view windows on it. This was limiting and prevented me from displaying widgets and other apps fit for a secondary screen, like Slack, simultaneously. As of my writing, the only dedicated chat widget is for Twitch Chat.
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