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Electron-Mattermost Setup Guides
Step-by-step Windows setup
To set up the Mattermost desktop application for Windows 7, 8 and 10:
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Download the latest release of electron-attermost
Find the file ending in
-win64.zip
if you're running a x64 version of Windows and-win32.zip
if you're running an older 32-bit version. -
From the
/Downloads
directory right-click on the file and select "Extract All..."A new directory should be created on your PC.
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Go to
/electron-mattermost...
directory and find the file namedelectron-mattermost
- Right-click the file and select "Pin to Taskbar" to make the application available from your Windows task bar.
- Right-click the file and select "Pin to Start Menu" to make the application available from your Windows Start menu.
- Double-click the file to open the application.
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After opening the application, press
Alt
key to bring up the menu at the top of the window, then clickFile -> Settings
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For each Mattermost team you'd like to use, enter its Name and URL then click Add
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Click Save to save your setting
You're now ready to use electron-mattermost to interact with multiple teams from one desktop application
To quit, use
Ctrl+Q
Help
See the Mattermost help documention for how to use the Mattermost team site.
The Mattermost application works in place of a web browser to access your different Mattermost Team Sites, and is controled by a menu bar available from the top of the application.
Top Menu:
Click the Alt
key to toggle the menu on and off.
Below lists menu options (shortcut keys are listed in brackets):
- File
- About electron-mattermost - Shows version information for Mattermost desktop application
- Settings - Opens setting menu to add new team sites and configure shortcut key options
- Quit (Ctrl+Q) - Exits the application
- Edit
- Undo (Ctrl+Z) - Reverses previous action
- Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z) - Replays most recent action
- Cut (Ctrl+X) - Cuts selected text
- Copy (Ctrl+C) - Copies selected text
- Paste (Ctrl+V) - Pastes text from clipboard
- Select All (Ctrl+A) - Select all text in input box
- View
- Reload (Ctrl+R) - Reload page from the server
- Clear Cache and Reload (Ctrl+Shift+R) - Clear cached content in application and reload page
- Toggle Full Screen (F11) - Toggle application from window to full screen and back
- Toggle Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I) - Turn on and off sidebar showing developer tools
Step-by-step OS X setup
For OS X 10.11 El Capitan. An older version of OS X has similar way.
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Download the latest release of electron-mattermost
Find the file ending in
-osx.tar.gz
. -
From the
/Downloads
directory double-click on the file."A new directory should be created on your Mac.
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Go to
/electron-mattermost...
directory and right-click onelectron-mattermost
package and select "Open"If you see a dialog to confirm the application, select "Open".
You should see a new application called electron-mattermost open.
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Click
electron-mattermost
from the menu at the top of the screen, then clickSettings
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For each Mattermost team you'd like to use, enter its Name and URL then click Add
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Click Save to save your setting
You're now ready to use electron-mattermost to interact with multiple teams from one desktop application
To quit, use
Command+Q