diff --git a/lisp/awesome-tray/awesome-tray-autoloads.el b/lisp/awesome-tray/awesome-tray-autoloads.el
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..098a97c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lisp/awesome-tray/awesome-tray-autoloads.el
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+;;; awesome-tray-autoloads.el --- automatically extracted autoloads (do not edit)   -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
+;; Generated by the `loaddefs-generate' function.
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(add-to-list 'load-path (or (and load-file-name (directory-file-name (file-name-directory load-file-name))) (car load-path)))
+
+
+
+;;; Generated autoloads from awesome-tray.el
+
+(defvar awesome-tray-mode nil "\
+Non-nil if Awesome-Tray mode is enabled.
+See the `awesome-tray-mode' command
+for a description of this minor mode.
+Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
+either customize it (see the info node `Easy Customization')
+or call the function `awesome-tray-mode'.")
+(custom-autoload 'awesome-tray-mode "awesome-tray" nil)
+(autoload 'awesome-tray-mode "awesome-tray" "\
+Display text at the end of the echo area.
+
+This is a global minor mode.  If called interactively, toggle the
+`Awesome-Tray mode' mode.  If the prefix argument is positive, enable
+the mode, and if it is zero or negative, disable the mode.
+
+If called from Lisp, toggle the mode if ARG is `toggle'.  Enable the
+mode if ARG is nil, omitted, or is a positive number.  Disable the mode
+if ARG is a negative number.
+
+To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
+evaluate `(default-value \\='awesome-tray-mode)'.
+
+The mode's hook is called both when the mode is enabled and when it is
+disabled.
+
+(fn &optional ARG)" t)
+(autoload 'awesome-tray-enable "awesome-tray" "\
+Turn on the awesome-tray." t)
+(autoload 'awesome-tray-disable "awesome-tray" "\
+Turn off the awesome-tray." t)
+(register-definition-prefixes "awesome-tray" '("awesome-tray-"))
+
+;;; End of scraped data
+
+(provide 'awesome-tray-autoloads)
+
+;; Local Variables:
+;; version-control: never
+;; no-byte-compile: t
+;; no-update-autoloads: t
+;; no-native-compile: t
+;; coding: utf-8-emacs-unix
+;; End:
+
+;;; awesome-tray-autoloads.el ends here
diff --git a/lisp/update-autoloads.el b/lisp/update-autoloads.el
index 3b4c7f91..7bdbc723 100644
--- a/lisp/update-autoloads.el
+++ b/lisp/update-autoloads.el
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 (defun update-autoloads-sub-packages (&optional file)
   (require 'package)
   (package-generate-autoloads "all-the-icons" (concat config-dir "lisp/all-the-icons"))
+  (package-generate-autoloads "awesome-tray" (concat config-dir "lisp/awesome-tray"))
   (package-generate-autoloads "dashboard" (concat config-dir "lisp/dashboard"))
   (package-generate-autoloads "diff-hl" (concat config-dir "lisp/diff-hl"))
   (package-generate-autoloads "flycheck" (concat config-dir "lisp/flycheck"))
diff --git a/settings/gui-settings.el b/settings/gui-settings.el
index 046e861f..e25d08ea 100644
--- a/settings/gui-settings.el
+++ b/settings/gui-settings.el
@@ -176,10 +176,10 @@ DISPLAY-START: `integer', e.g. 3820"
       (my-view-gnuplot))))
 
 (use-package awesome-tray
-  :defer nil
+  :defer t
   :after my-theme
   :hook (after-init . awesome-tray-mode)
-  :init
+  :init (require 'awesome-tray-autoloads)
   :config
   (setq awesome-tray-info-padding-right 1)
   (setq awesome-tray-buffer-name-buffer-changed t)