Electros

Note

If you're trying to run the app on macOS from the .dmg image, the daemons will not start. This is caused by the read-only filesystem of the disk image. You will need to copy it to /Applications or any other filesystem that is readable.

Building

To build, three github action workflows are present:

Build releases

Releases can be built only against main by tagging a commit with vX.X.X. The build will automatically start. To fully release it, mark it as latest manually.

Build beta

todo))

Nightly builds

Every evening at 17:00 (CEST) a build is automatically run against Develop, and will be tagged accordingly to the package.json version, for example, v3.1.5-DDMMYY-HHMM-nightly. You can also manually trigger a nightly build from the Github Actions Nightly workflow. It can only be run against develop.

Command line switches

Electros has a set of custom command line switches other than the Electron switches:

• --enable-devtools enables the devtools for the application
• --no-daemons disables the execution of the embedded daemons

Note

On macOS, to add a CLI switch, you'll have to append them directly onto the executable:

$ /Applications/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electros  # add your CLI switches here

Linux-specific switches

If you're experiencing performance issues on Linux, check what compositor you're using between X11 and Wayland, if you're using Wayland, add the following switch to force Chromium to use the correct compositor and not fall back onto Xwayland:

$ /opt/Electros/electros --ozone-platform=wayland