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sam opper
sam opper

Reputation: 71

Electron Desktop Notifications not displaying on windows 10

My electron app is not displaying desktop notifications on windows 10. Mac and Linux are working fine.

I am using electron-packager to build.

Documentation says "On Windows 10, a shortcut to your app with an Application User Model ID must be installed to the Start Menu." so i call app.setAppUserModelId(myID) in main.js and i put a shortcut to the .exe inside C:\Users\sam\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Still no notifications. I'm not sure which step I am doing wrong.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5778

Answers (2)

Oscar Polanco
Oscar Polanco

Reputation: 61

I'm using electron-builder and it works like a charm.

Electron multiplatform notifications

I uploaded this code to my GitHub repository. It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. If you want that notifications work on windows, you need to install the app running 'npm run dist'. It creates a folder called 'dist' where you can find the installer.

This is the important part:

app.on('ready', () => {
  if (process.platform === 'win32') {
    app.setAppUserModelId("com.ikobit.desktop-notifications");
  }

  ...
});

Upvotes: 6

sam opper
sam opper

Reputation: 71

The issue was I was setting the app id in multiple locations. I also needed to install with electron-builder and then it worked.

Upvotes: 0

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