I've been running an Electron App on a Pi4, Ubuntu 22.04 Server, and Gnome desktop without issue. Since it runs as a kiosk anyway as a single app, I've been attempting to eliminate Gnome and just l...

I added a Content-Security-Policy as suggested here: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security#6-define-a-content-security-policy and here: https://content-security-policy.com/examples/elec...

I am using electron forge with typescript integration. I can't find a solution to drag and drop files from explorer and get their full paths I put in index.ts the following: import {app, BrowserWin...

I'm currently working on an Electron app which uses a third party software. At some point I'm checking if that software is installed on the user's computer (it has to be in PATH), and if it's not t...

In the last release (v0.31.0) electron comes with a statically linked FFMpeg library (not the command line tool, see #2588) I am aware of the many nodejs modules for ffmpeg, but they all look like...

In the main process, I have a simple Uint8Array and I want to send it to the renderer process. sender.send is converting everything to JSON, so it cannot be used for binary data. Is there a simpl...

Since the release of "Safari App Extension" I have toyed around with creating safari app extensions for native applications using xcode. Now however, I'm attempting to create an extension for an ap...

I need to get local IP of my computer in react js app. Can anyone please suggest a good way to do it?

I am using electron-react-boilerplate to create an Electron-React app. The dev tools show up on the screen by default. How can I make the dev tools only appear when I ask for them and not show up o...

I'm building an Electron app using Electron Forge and I need to pass environment variables to the final executable. I've tried defining the environment variables in forge.config.js like this: env: ...

I am developing a desktop app with react for UI and electron. So, for now, I am fetching data from the server and saving it in the state using React's Context API to update the UI. I am keeping t...

I am using Linux Mint 20 and vscode 1.52.1. My ~/.xsession-errors file shows Warning: 'sandbox' is not in the list of known options, but still passed to Electron/Chromium. What is causing this erro...

I have an Electron app. I try to make the app open an .exe file. I created a directory in the root folder named lib and placed the .exe file there. In development, I have no problem opening the fil...

I want to know where BrowserWindow located from two or more screens. I guess Electron API doesn't give a method. How can I do that? Is there any way or something??

Creating a simple template electron app. I want to do a fetch request to my api but am continuously stopped by the Content Security Policy errors and I have no idea how to fix them. Refused to con...

Googling says you can add a callback to it, but the documentation just says "arg1, arg2, arg3" etc. They also have sendSync, but I'd prefer not to block while my event is being sent [we're trying ...

I would like to use the react-to-print library to print an iframe from my Electron app. How can I use the iframe reference to get the correct window/element to print? const handleElectronPrint = as...

I am new to electron and trying to load images from the local file system to display it on screen. So for images from the remote URLs are working just fine when I do <img src='https://example.c...

I am creating an Electron Application in which I am recording data from webcam and desktop, at the end of the recording session, I want to save the data to a file in the background. I do not know h...

I have an Portable Electron App (packed with: electron-builder + asar, portable build) on Windows. I try to get the application path but it returns a path within the user\temp folder rather than th...

I am creating an Electron application, and per the Electron security tutorial I have added a CSP meta tag. When running the application, this issue appears in devtools. Content Security Policy of ...

I'm just using the code as a learning exercise regarding JavaScript classes. The code produces a "TypeError: SimpleLogger is not a constructor". The class seems to be exported Ok but I can't insta...

I've built a fairly complex graphical user interface for a data analysis pipeline that a neuroscience lab is using. I built it with Python in a Jupyter Notebook using ipywidgets and various interac...

I have a setup that integrates electron with svelte along with typescript support. when I run the rollup script to compile svelte app, i am getting cannot find module ./App.svelte error as shown be...

I use Firebase-auth for my web application I'm developing with electron framework. I created an API key using project settings, and copied it into my html's body as it is suggested in Firebase guid...