chroma

One copy of Electron to rule them all.

chroma keeps a central, up-to-date version of Electron, and makes all your installed Electron apps use it, in order to save disk space.

State of the Project

Supported platforms:

• [X] Linux
  • [X] regular installs
  • [ ] flatpak (WIP: sandboxing issues)
  • [ ] AppImages
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] macOS

Installing

Rust and cargo are required. Install them with rustup.

Installation is a little rough and unintuitive right now, due to the lack of code for fetching the latest Electron. It'll get easier in the future.

• as root: mkdir /var/lib/chroma/
• grab the latest electron ZIP for your platform
• as root: unzip into /var/lib/chroma/electron
• as self: cargo install --git https://github.com/mogery/chroma

Usage

Regular installs

For example, if you want to chromafy Slack:

chroma raw $(where slack)

Flatpak

WARNING: Flatpak support does not work right now: this will mangle your app.

For example, if you want to chromafy Slack:

chroma flatpak com.slack.Slack