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Electron Multi-Screen Window Placement Test
<!-- Empty -->
// Modules to control application life and create native browser window
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
const path = require('path')
function createWindow () {
// Create the browser window.
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 840,
height: 900,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'),
experimentalFeatures: true
}
})
// and load the index.html of the app.
// mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
mainWindow.loadURL('https://michaelwasserman.github.io/window-placement-demo/')
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.whenReady().then(() => {
createWindow()
app.on('activate', function () {
// On macOS it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) createWindow()
})
})
// Quit when all windows are closed, except on macOS. There, it's common
// for applications and their menu bar to stay active until the user quits
// explicitly with Cmd + Q.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') app.quit()
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
{
"name": "hurried-son-back-k3x3w",
"productName": "hurried-son-back-k3x3w",
"description": "My Electron application description",
"keywords": [],
"main": "./main.js",
"version": "1.0.0",
"author": "jeff",
"scripts": {
"start": "electron ."
},
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {
"electron": "15.0.0-beta.4"
}
}
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
const v = process.versions
console.log('Electron: %s\nChrome: %s\nNode: %s\nV8: %s', v.electron, v.chrome, v.node, v.v8)
})
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jjeff commented Sep 13, 2021

This is an Electron Fiddle project to see if Electron works with Chrome's upcoming Multi-screen Window Placement API. It just opens a window to https://michaelwasserman.github.io/window-placement-demo/.

Note that until Chrome 97 is released and becomes a part of Electron, this API is only available with webPreference.experimentalFeatures = true when creating a BrowserWindow.

Tested through Electron 15 beta 4.

Current bug: Screens are recognized and drawn correctly on the demo page. However, there appears to be a bug where requestFullscreen() always opens on the primary screen.

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jjeff commented Sep 24, 2021

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