Question 1:
I use 2 electron apps (obsidian and tradingview) and i was wondering about the different versions of electron in the repositories.
Installing a electron app pulls in a specific version of electron, in my case electron30, but could i tell it to use electron32 instead?
Question 2:
Recently an electron app (tradingview) has shifted all drawing operations to the GPU and it’s terribly slow. Is this something that is decided by electron and could it be configured somewhere?
re question 1:
You can take the PKGBUILD and change it to depend on a different electron version.
Then rebuild the package.
Whether this will work? You’ll find out when you try and do it.
1: Generally each app developer will progressively update the Electron dependency as newer versions of the app are released. Even though a newer Electron version might work with any given app ahead of time, it’s probably safest to wait for the developer’s release acknowledgement.
it just dawned on me that it has to be tradingview itself who decides to exclusively use the GPU since i did simply overwrite the tradingview-folder in /opt to get back to the old version and nothing has changed about electron.
