electron-panel-window

This fork of electron-panel-window. It works on macOS big sur (tested). It works with electron 13. (tested).

There are few caveats.

1. titleBarStyle should have the value 'customButtonsOnHover'

This will show two buttons on top left (to close and maximize the window). You can hide them by setting:

• closable: false
• maximizable: false

Beware that you may need some additional logic if you actually need to close the window, as win.close() won't work at this point. (you can check the test to see how we did this)

This looks no longer necessary in version 3.

2. setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(true) cannot be used on these windows

Apparently it causes everything to crash.

3. Crash on quit

There are usually some electron crash when quitting an app with a panel window. Usually they can be fixed by:

1. hiding the panel window
2. make another window as key (use makeKeyWindow on another window)
3. transform the panel in a normal window (use makeWindow)
4. close the window
5. quit the app

We have noticed less/no crashes if steps 2-5 are execture after a setTimout like:

win.hide()
setTimeout(()=>{
    electronPanelWindow.makeKeyWindow(otherWin)
    electronPanelWindow.makeWindow(win)
    win.close()
    app.quit()
})

Other

Removed win and linux support as it was empty in the first place.

You may want to include the package dynamically:

const electronPanelWindow = process.platform === 'darwin' ? require('electron-panel-window') : undefined

Issues

Feel free to open an issue, and report other "workarounds" to keep this working.

Methods

Install

npm install @akiflow/electron-panel-window

require

const electronPanelWindow = process.platform === 'darwin' ? require('@akiflow/electron-panel-window') : undefined

1. makeKeyWindow(win) focus the window without activating the application
2. makePanel(win) transform the given window in a panel
3. makeWindow(win) transform the given panel in a window (useful before quitting)

Credits

• Akiflow Team
• rcclerigo
• Abstract

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Old README of electron-panel-window

Something may be useful, something may be outdated

You can find it here: https://github.com/goabstract/electron-panel-window/