Passing command-line flags to underlying program

[livnev]

Hi, I'm trying to run an app distributed as an AppImage and I'd like to pass a command line flag to the underlying (Electron) app. In my particular case, I'd like to pass --disable-gpu to Electron to work around a well known bug in Electron's hardware acceleration. Is there a way to do this, or a way to patch the .AppImage to do this?

[TheAssassin]

@livnev the electron-build system doesn't use appimagetool, but they build their own runtime and build AppImages in a custom way. Please ask there, they can help you.

In general, forwarding of parameters is always possible with "normal" AppImages.

[livnev]

Thanks @TheAssassin , will try there.

[probonopd]

Just for clarity, if parameters passed to an AppImage are not passed through to the contained application, then it is a bug, and we would fix it immediately if the bug was in any tool made by the AppImage project. But as @TheAssassin said, electron-builder is using their own tooling; we can't speak for them.