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# Debugging Element-Desktop
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There are two parts of the desktop app that you might want to debug.
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## The renderer process
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This is the regular element-web codeand can be debugged by just selecting 'toggle developer tools'
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from the menu, even on ppackaged builds. This then works the same as chrome dev tools for element web.
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## The main process
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This is debugged as a node app, so:
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1. Open any chrome dev tools window
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1. Start element with the `--inspect-brk` flag
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1. Notice that you now have a little green icon in the top left of your chrome devtools window, click it.
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You are now debugging the code of the desktop app itself.
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## The main process of a package app
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When the app is shipped, electron's "fuses" are flipped, editing the electron binary itself to prevent certain features from being usable, one of which is debugging using `--inspect-brk` as above. You can flip the fuse back on Linux as follows:
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```
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sudo npx @electron/fuses write --app /opt/Element/element-desktop EnableNodeCliInspectArguments=on
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```
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A similar command will work, in theory, on mac and windows, except that this will break code signing (which is the point of fuses) so you would have to re-sign the app or somesuch.
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