v0.1.2 - settings page + native window embedding

eDEX-Deck v0.1.2

New: a settings page

The dock has a SETTINGS button that opens a local page (http://127.0.0.1:8899/). It is bilingual — EN / 中文 switchable in the corner, remembered in localStorage and auto-detected on first visit. From there:

• Attach a running application — pick any window (Blender, an IDE, a browser). It becomes part of the eDEX frame by reparenting the real window handle, so it's the actual application, not a web copy.
• Embed a web address — anything over HTTP.
• Serve a local folder — from inside the binary, no external Python needed.
• Save it as a profile — written back to edex-deck.json, optionally as the new default so the next double-click goes straight there.

An attached window tracks #main_shell, so it follows layout switches instead of freezing where it was attached.

Fixed

/api/windows returned an empty body. The handle coming out of EnumWindows is a ctypes HWND, which json.dumps rejects — and the error path then sent nothing at all, so the window picker could never load (you'd see Unexpected end of JSON input). Handles are now plain ints, and a response is never empty even when serialisation fails.

Notes

• Window embedding is Windows-only by design — Wayland and macOS do not permit cross-process window embedding.
• macOS (.dmg) and Linux binaries are produced by CI and will appear here shortly after the tag is pushed.
• Close eDEX before upgrading: the settings service binds 127.0.0.1:8899.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1 - layout sync + module placement

eDEX-Deck v0.1.1

Fixes for layout switching and the embedded view, plus module placement.

Fixed

• The embedded Web UI no longer drifts out of place after switching layouts. Its bounds now follow the shell via a ResizeObserver instead of guessing the CSS transition duration — so you no longer have to click something else to make it snap back into alignment.
• GLOBE is usable again under COCKPIT. A wildcard selector was hiding the module together with its children, so the MODULES toggle couldn't bring it back. The right column now scrolls instead.
• Double-clicking the binary now does something visible. A bare launch applies defaultProfile from edex-deck.json. Previously it only injected the dock and left the centre pane on the shell prompt, which looked like the embed feature was broken.

New

• Modules can be moved between columns. Every PANEL entry in the MODULES panel has a placement badge — L left, R right, D bottom strip. Click it to relocate the module; the columns, the bottom strip and the terminal all re-flow around it, and a column that gets emptied collapses instead of leaving a bare title.
• The bottom strip is a real slot, so you can keep a few gauges visible in layouts that otherwise give the terminal everything.
• --preset <name> and --eval-file <path> for scripted verification.

Downloads

File	Notes
edex-deck.exe	single file — double-click to run
edex-deck-portable-win32.zip	binary + config + demo page + licence

Note

If you already ran an earlier build, the layout you last selected is remembered in eDEX's localStorage. To reset, double-click the dock (restores the corner position) and clear the preset by selecting DEFAULT.

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0 - first release

eDEX-Deck v0.1.0

A non-invasive UI layer for eDEX-UI.

Downloads

File	Platform	Notes
edex-deck.exe	Windows	single file — just double-click
edex-deck-portable-win32.zip	Windows	binary + config + demo page + licence

macOS (.dmg) and Linux binaries are produced by CI — see the Actions tab, or wait for the next tagged build.

What it does

• Layout dock — 3 presets (DEFAULT / COCKPIT / FOCUS) plus 11 per-module toggles. Draggable, snaps to screen edges and collapses to a hover tab.
• Embed any local Web UI — the centre pane is a BrowserView, so anything over HTTP can live there: VS Code (code-server), JupyterLab, Grafana, your own dashboard.
• Themes — ships a deck-teal theme plus tooling to derive a palette from any screenshot.
• Zero file modification — eDEX's install directory and settings.json are never touched. Everything happens at runtime over the DevTools Protocol and disappears when eDEX exits.

Usage

Double-click the binary. It injects the dock and stays running until you close eDEX.

Keep edex-deck.json next to the binary to use profiles:

edex-deck.exe --profile vscode

Requirements

• eDEX-UI 2.2.x installed
• Nothing else — Python is bundled

Notes

• Windows only in this release; CI covers macOS and Linux on tag.
• The binary is unsigned, so SmartScreen may warn on first run.
• Uses eDEX's --remote-debugging-port, which grants full renderer control to any local process while running. It is closed on exit.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Docking666/edex-deck/commits/v0.1.0