Onium is a small utility to inject Hebrew support (automatic RTL) into Slack’s desktop app. Onium does this by modifying Slack’s app.asar (Slack application code) and changes the Slack app itself.
What is Onium?
Onium fixes one of Slack’s most glaring issues for users in countries whose script is written Right-to-left. It does so by injecting code into Slack that modifies the displayed text to correctly show Right-to-left words.
The Slack app is built using Electron, which essentially wraps a Chromium browser and a Node.js server together. Onium modifies the HTML displayed by the Chromium browser to properly support Hebrew (and RTL) languages.
Onium does this by modifying Slack’s internal code (creating a “Fixed” solution), until Slack adds a new update.
Requirements
You need Python 2.7 or 3.5 or later to run Onium. Onium should work on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Quick start
Onium can be installed using pip:
$ python -m pip install onium
As long as python’s scripts folder is in your path, simply run
$ onium
Usage
Onium supports various command line parameters
usage: onium [-h] [-l LOCATION] [--no-kill] [--no-start] [-b BACKUP]
[-f] [-d]
Inject hebrew support plugin into Slack's tab inside an electron app. This
program injects the Chrome's hebrew_slack plugin into any electron (desktop)
version of the slack app
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LOCATION, --location LOCATION
Location of application to run, or auto, local
(Windows only), store (Windows only) [default: auto]
--no-kill Do not attempt to kill original application before
starting
--no-start Do not attempt to start application (assume already
running)
-b BACKUP, --backup BACKUP
Name to use save original slack app backup. This will
never overwrite an existing backup file. Fails if file
already exists and not used with -f [default:
app.asar.orig]
-f, --force Proceed even if backup file already exists [default:
False]
-d, --debug Pass --remote-debugging-port=9222 to enable rendered
debugger with chrome
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License
Onium is licensed under the terms of the MIT License (see the file LICENSE.txt).
Acknowledgement
1 maintainer
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