Clove

Successor to russmatney/clover, but dropping Electron in favor of Tauri.

Builds a binary that can be passed a window title and URL, to host a locally running web app outside of your usual browser tabs.

I use this in russmatney/clawe to run a clojurescript topbar on linux and OSX, as well as a dedicated place to run clerk notebooks.

More detail on my blog:

• 2022-10-18 daily note
• Tauri as a simple native webview

Dev

Build:

cargo tauri dev

Test:

./src-tauri/target/debug/clove create-window -t mytitle --url http://localhost:3333 --label mylabel

‘Prod’

cargo tauri build

Test the prod build:

./src-tauri/target/release/clove create-window -t mytitle --url http://localhost:3333 --label mylabel

install

Build prod and install it in ~/.cargo/bin:

cargo install --path src-tauri/.

Usage

clove create-window \
    --title some-window-title \
    --url http://localhost:3333 \
    --label some-unique-label

Eg at default clerk port:

clove create-window \
    --title clerk-notebook \
    --url http://localhost:8888 \
    --label clerk-notebook

With more args:

clove create-window \
    --transparent \
    --decorations \
    --focused \
    --title clerk-notebook \
    --url http://localhost:8888 \
    --label clerk-notebook

misc

nvidia error

There is a crash when running tauri against the latest nvidia renderers:

src/nv_gbm.c:99: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_bo_create): DRM_IOCTL_NVIDIA_GEM_ALLOC_NVKMS_MEMORY failed (ret=-1)

Failed to create GBM buffer of size 2279x999: Invalid argument

For now using an env var makes things work again:

WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 clove create-window ....

Some related threads:

• tauri-apps/tauri#7910
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/16tzu8w/tauri_issue/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/tauri/comments/16tzsi8/tauri_desktop_app_not_rendering_but_web_does/