Electron environment variables

Some Electron's behavior is controlled by environment variables because they initialize earlier than the command line and application code.

Examples of POSIX shells:

$ export ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING=true
$ electron

Windows Console:

> set ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING=true
> electron

ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE

Similar to .js normal process startup.

ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING

Print Chrome's internal logs to the console.

ELECTRON_LOG_ASAR_READS

When Electron reads the ASAR document and logs the read offset and document path to the system tmpdir . the result file will be provided to the ASAR module to optimize the document organization.

ELECTRON_ENABLE_STACK_DUMPING

When Electron crashes, the print stack logs to the console.

If crashReporter been activated then this environmental variable is effective.

ELECTRON_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE Windows

When Electron crashes, the windows crash dialog box is displayed.

If crashReporter been activated then this environmental variable is effective.

ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE Windows

The current console is not available.

ELECTRON_FORCE_WINDOW_MENU_BAR Linux

The global menu bar can no longer be used on Linux.

ELECTRON_HIDE_INTERNAL_MODULES