

Prevent several instances of google chat linux to be launched. So, to use electron's Wayland rendering edit /usr/share/applciations/sktop and add -enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations -ozone-platform-hint=auto. I didn't find a way to make this a runtime option, this setting must be taken into account very early in electron startup I'm not even sure it's possible to do that. desktop shortcut, bad idea sorry about that -), forget the 5.21-18-2 version.

So, feel free to enable both options if you want, it will work with this lmitation. So you have to enable yet another feature flag (see electron/electron#29618) -enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations

(Which only works already with a workaround on Gnome, see further). This has side effects on window decoration (absent on Gnome for instance).Īnother side effect is the lack of notification in systray. The default value is default and does not try Wayland at all. Simply run electron ap with -ozone-platform-hint=auto to make it use Wayland if available, Xorg else. Run with both command line options : -enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations -ozone-platform-hint=auto Detailed storyĮlectron 20 introduced a command line to mimic chromium way to switch to Wayland if available. see hereĭependency is taken care of in AUR Arch package and Debian package. It's probably already the case on most distributions. Starting with 5.14.x, xdg-desktop-portal must be installed. If you're not happy with this, build from sources with npm install & npm run dist or get a proper OS with a proper distribution system. I Don't Care and won't buy a certificate. exe is, Windows pretending it has detected something nasty and is protecting you. There will be "SmartScreen" warning about how unsafe this. You can install the Setup.exe from releases. I added the minimum required tweaks to have a decently working app on Windows. Windows supportĮlectron is cross platform. See below Changelog 5.24.19-1 google-chat-linux-gitĪn electron-base client for Google Hangouts Chat, since Google didn't see fit to provide one. Electron/electron#36472 electron/electron#36333 electron/electron#36602
