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111,957 | 15,201 | |
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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Electron
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Release Radar • February 2024 Edition
The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.
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The IDEs we had 30 years ago and we lost
VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37531
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Design Systems with Web Components
So we talked a lot about the Atomic Design Principle, but you could just use that in any system and start creating. You could have Angular components, React Components, and Vue Components. But if you notice these don't easily work Everwhere. So the solution is to use Web Components because the modern browser can already understand these, and any Front-End framework can then utilize these components. You can use Electron for desktop (Slack, VSCode), PWA for both Android and iOS, and across all browsers Can I Use.
- Settings · Rulesets · electron/electron
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How I got Wayland, Vulkan, and hardware acceleration working with Figma on Fedora 39.
I'm noticing a significant boost in performance, crisper text, and better power savings. The only shortcoming is that the window which Figma will run on will lose its shadow. This is due to a technical limitation with frameless windows on Linux.
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Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can become somewhat bloated in terms of memory usage.
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MS Teams & Electron libwebp 0-Day Vulnerability
Electron patch for version 27: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39823
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
It does, see [0]. Fun fact: Signal desktop, which uses Electron under the hood, is running without sandbox on Linux [1][2].
[0] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39824
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5195
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381
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Capturing at Speed of Thought
Turns out, there is an issue with the electron window not returning focus correctly on mac - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5495. The trick to solving is to treat quick capture as a screensaver. When closing, you hide it by setting the opacity to 0 and sending hide: command to the first responder.
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$Home, Not So Sweet $Home
Open since 2016! https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8124
deskreen
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Is there a way to make ubuntu 23.10 think it has a monitor connected when headless?
Or if you are an experienced user of your operating system, you can find solutions on how to create a virtual display without a need for Virtual Display Adapter in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
- Deskreen – turn any device into a secondary screen
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Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
Use a vnc client on your android device and setup a virtual monitor on your desktop that is really a vnc server.
I know how to do that with Sway and swayvnc on wayland, as well as with xorg.
https://superuser.com/questions/1434779/using-a-tablet-as-a-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/k1zl41/thank_you_de...
This is particularly helpful to people using asahi linux and wanting to connect an external monitor. That can be done with something as simple as a raspberry pi.
EDIT: apparently this project help achieving the same thing on different OS but using webRTC and a browser:
https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
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Just wondering if I can run sillytavern or pygmalion(forgot which is which) on my pc and use my phone to connect to it then use tavernAI (the interface) on my phone?
Screen sharing apps are good for this. You can access your pc from your phones browser and local pc IP. https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen is free one i use.
- How can I create a second virtual monitor on my steamdeck without needing to plug in a usbc alt dummymonitor plug ?
- How do I use my laptop as a monitor of another laptop?
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How can i create a virtual display on X11? [Amd]
No it is not necessary. The screen mirroring and sharing single application window functionality of Deskreen are working without any need for Virtual Display Adapter. The Virtual Display Plug is needed only if you want to extend your computer desktop to have a full secondary screen experience with Deskreen. Or if you are an experienced user of your operating system, you can find solutions on how to create a virtual display without a need for Virtual Display Adapter in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
Generic X: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/42
- Setup i found on FB
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Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I use Deskreen with Windows, it has a Linux version that probably works similarly. I think it leverages browser streaming tech.
https://deskreen.com/
Easiest way to get it working is with a dummy plug, but maybe there's more options on Linux to fake a display in software.
What are some alternatives?
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
VirtScreen - Make your iPad/tablet/computer into a secondary monitor on Linux.
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
scrcpy - Display and control your Android device
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
BetterDummy - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]
react-native - A framework for building native applications using React
virtual-display-linux - Create virtual display / monitor on linux OS for extended display via teamviewer or vnc server without any real Monitor is Plugged In.
cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
barrier - Open-source KVM software