Windows Spotlight Saver

An electron app that saves your favorite windows spotlight images

Table of contents

• Getting started
• Prerequisites
• Installing
• Running the app
• Deployment
• Built With
• Authors
• License
• Acknowledgments

Windows Spotlight Saver

Getting Started

Head over to releases and grab yourself the latest executable. Run the .exe app.

If you're feeling nerdy follow the instructions below to learn how you can set up and compile the app yourself.

Prerequisites

You will need these to run and set up the app

• A PC running windows
• Node.js installed on your PC
• Electron installed globally on your PC

Installing

1. Clone or download the repo from this url and extract it.

   git clone https://github.com/lewis-munyi/lockscreen-image-saver.git
   

2. Open your console and change into that directory

   cd lockscreen-image-saver/
   

3. List the contents of the directory.

   ls
   

4. You should have such a directory structure

   lockscreen-image-saver/
   └── src/
   │   ├── js/
   │   ├── css/
   │   │── ...
   │   │── ...
   │   └── index.html
   |── .gitignore
   |── firestore.rules
   |── ...
   |── ...
   |── index.js
   └── package.json
   

5. Install the required modules

   npm install
   

6. Run the app

   npm start
   

Running the app

• Run the npm script

  npm start
  

Deployment

1. Run

   npm run build
   

2. Select ASSETS and upload an icon

3. Select INSTALLER and specify the relevant app details then hit Generate installer.

4. This will create a directory called dist/ which contains your compiled app.

5. Run it!

Built With

• Electron - Desktop framework

Contributing

Details on this can be found here.

Authors

• Lewis Munyi - Dev - Website

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to StackOverflow anyone whose code was used.
• Photo made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

Screenshots

Enjoy 🤘