Platform Notes

Polygluttony is the same app everywhere. What differs is mostly the first launch, because the builds aren't signed with a paid developer certificate.

Windows

• Supported: Windows 10 and 11, x64.
• Installing: run Polygluttony-vX.Y.Z-windows.exe. It installs for your user only, so no admin rights are needed.
• SmartScreen: Windows may warn that the app is unrecognised. Choose More info → Run anyway. This happens once.
• WebView2: Polygluttony draws its window with Microsoft's WebView2, which Windows 10 and 11 normally already have. If yours doesn't, the installer downloads it, so stay online during the install.

macOS

• Supported: Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later). There's no build for Intel Macs.

• Installing: unzip Polygluttony-vX.Y.Z-macos.zip and drag Polygluttony into Applications.

• First launch: macOS blocks it because it isn't notarized by Apple.

  1. Try to open Polygluttony once and dismiss the warning.
  2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom.
  3. Click Open Anyway next to the message about Polygluttony.
  4. Open it again and confirm.

  Right-click → Open no longer gets around this on recent macOS. After installing a new version you may have to do it again.

Linux

• Supported: x86_64. The AppImage runs on most distributions; it's built on Ubuntu 22.04, so distributions older than that may not run it.

• Running it:

  chmod +x Polygluttony-*.AppImage
  ./Polygluttony-*.AppImage

• If the AppImage won't start: most distributions can run AppImages out of the box. If yours can't, install FUSE 2 (the package is usually called libfuse2 or fuse2).

• NVIDIA on Wayland: some NVIDIA drivers crash WebKit apps with Error 71 (Protocol error). Polygluttony sets __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC=1 for itself to avoid this. If you've set that variable yourself, your value wins.

Everywhere

• The app checks for nothing in the background: no update checks, no telemetry. New versions are on the releases page. See Privacy & your data.
• The version you're running is shown at the bottom right of the window (3.0.0, for example).
• Keyboard shortcuts use Ctrl on Windows and Linux and Cmd on macOS. The Help page lists them.
• When a run ends while Polygluttony isn't the active window, it sends a desktop notification. It asks for permission once, the first time; if you say no, it doesn't ask again. You can change that in your system's notification settings.