Electron window does not appear in Windows 10 Dark Mode(May be due to the bug in electron)
See original GitHub issuePrerequisites
- Using yarn
- Using node 10.x
- Using an up-to-date
masterbranch - Using latest version of devtools. See wiki for howto update
- Link to stacktrace in a Gist (for bugs)
- For issue in production release, devtools output of
DEBUG_PROD=true yarn build && yarn start - Tried solutions mentioned in #400
Expected Behavior
This starts the renderer process in hot-module-replacement mode and starts a webpack dev server that sends hot updates to the renderer process:
Current Behavior
Electron window does not appear after “yarn dev” or “yarn start”, without any error log The electron process has started and can be seen in the task manager.

Possible Solution
Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
All operations follow README.md
Context
Your Environment
- Node version : v11.11.0
- Version or Branch used : master c273ba4 Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Operating System and version : Windows 10 1909
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions:4
- Comments:13 (2 by maintainers)
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Better fix
Set package Json electron packages to
Current: “electron”: “7.1.13”, “electron-builder”: “^22.2.0”,
Fix" “electron”: “8.0.2”, “electron-builder”: “^22.3.2”,
That is classic. I spent ages wondering what I had messed up. Who knew it could be as simple as changing back to Light Mode.