Use for questions related to Electron apps like Atom editor, Visual Studio Code, Postman among other apps. Questions about developing Electron apps should use [node.js] and [chromium] instead.
Questions tagged [electron]
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How to disable GPU compositing for all Chrome and Electron instances on macOS?
I have been experiencing severe performance issues with all Chromium browsers and Electron apps on my Mac for years. I’ve filed a bug report with Chromium and have contributed my findings to other bug reports for similar issues but I need a…
magiclantern
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Launch protocol in another process
On my Command prompt in Windows 10, I'm able to start a protocol using start "" "jitsi-meet://meet.jit.si/..."
This in turn starts the EXE responsible for jitsi-meet://
All great, except that, I cannot close the Command prompt which must remain…
bilogic
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Are Electron-based AppImages no longer supported on Ubuntu?
I have stock KUbuntu 24.04.
One thing I've noticed, if I download an AppImage containing an Electron GUI app, it will not run:
[254192:0212/190140.946364:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not…
alamar
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I need to use an Electron app, but it keeps maxing out my CPU
I am on a low end AMD laptop running a chip described in /proc/cpuinfo as an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with Radeon Graphics. I'm also running my Linux system off of a pen drive modified for persistence (don't ask why :-)). This means my I/O speeds are quite…
ShankarG
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How can I get a list of the appropriate font names to use in CSS on a Windows machine?
I'd like to use a font that I've installed in VScode (an Electron browser, effectively.)
Usually, it's not too much of a struggle to determine what to type into my font-family field to produce that font in the interface, but I have one font-file…
ELLIOTTCABLE
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Deploying app that requires root privileges to run
I'm deploying an app (built with Electron) as a deb file, and I'd like the user to install it and run it with root privileges only, like the way GParted does (retrieving them on boot event and execute anything needed without asking them again).
Kred
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Code signing certificates
We recently launched a software application built using electron where the app does check a firebase database upon launch of the app and for some reason, it was triggering the Norton Antivirus firewall due to it connecting to firestore DB…
