Environment variables

Some behaviors of Electron are controlled by environment variables, because they are initialized earlier than command line and the app's code.

Examples on POSIX shells:

$ export ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING=true
$ electron

on Windows console:

> set ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING=true
> electron

ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE

Starts the process as a normal Node.js process.

ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING

Prints Chrome's internal logging to console.

ELECTRON_ENABLE_STACK_DUMPING

When Electron crashed, prints the stack trace to console.

This environment variable will not work if crashReporter is started.

ELECTRON_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE Windows

Shows Windows's crash dialog when Electron crashed.

This environment variable will not work if crashReporter is started.

ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE Windows

Don't attach to current console session.

ELECTRON_FORCE_WINDOW_MENU_BAR Linux

Don't use global menu bar on Linux.

ELECTRON_HIDE_INTERNAL_MODULES

Turns off compatibility mode for old built-in modules like require('ipc').