From 34f090e868194279c5a68d7201be69e294928e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yann300 <yann.levreau@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:21:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] if electron try to load remixd

---
 src/app.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/app.js b/src/app.js
index 97c15480c0..36c14f75b5 100644
--- a/src/app.js
+++ b/src/app.js
@@ -346,4 +346,8 @@ Please make a backup of your contracts and start using http://remix.ethereum.org
       }
     })
   }
+
+  if (isElectron()) {
+    appManager.activate(['remixd'])
+  }
 }

From 6af8b258cb58606e0f1e8c8f150e1aa43cf4aa72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yann300 <yann.levreau@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:22:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] keep a list of plugin we don't want to autoload && and
 add remixd to it.

---
 src/remixAppManager.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/remixAppManager.js b/src/remixAppManager.js
index c8cc43a0b1..6130201cbc 100644
--- a/src/remixAppManager.js
+++ b/src/remixAppManager.js
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ export class RemixAppManager extends PluginEngine {
   constructor (plugins) {
     super(plugins, settings)
     this.event = new EventEmitter()
+    this.donotAutoReload = ['remixd'] // that would be a bad practice to force loading some plugins at page load.
     this.registered = {}
   }
 
   onActivated (plugin) {
-    localStorage.setItem('workspace', JSON.stringify(this.actives))
+    if (!this.donotAutoReload.includes(plugin.name)) {
+      localStorage.setItem('workspace', JSON.stringify(this.actives))
+    }
     this.event.emit('activate', plugin.name)
   }
 

From a4e24d2279cf928d7799d1adfdc94851ffdb35d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yann300 <yann.levreau@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:23:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] if we are in electron, don't display remixd modal

---
 src/app/files/remixd-handle.js | 31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app/files/remixd-handle.js b/src/app/files/remixd-handle.js
index b64799c6ed..62a9ecf515 100644
--- a/src/app/files/remixd-handle.js
+++ b/src/app/files/remixd-handle.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import isElectron from 'is-electron'
 import { Plugin } from '@remixproject/engine'
 import * as packageJson from '../../../package.json'
 var yo = require('yo-yo')
@@ -55,28 +56,30 @@ export class RemixdHandle extends Plugin {
     * @param {String} txHash    - hash of the transaction
     */
   connectToLocalhost () {
+    let connection = (error) => {
+      if (error) {
+        console.log(error)
+        modalDialogCustom.alert(
+          'Cannot connect to the remixd daemon.' +
+          'Please make sure you have the remixd running in the background.'
+        )
+        this.canceled()
+      } else {
+        this.fileSystemExplorer.ensureRoot()
+      }
+    }
     if (this.locahostProvider.isConnected()) {
       this.locahostProvider.close((error) => {
         if (error) console.log(error)
       })
-    } else {
+    } else if (!isElectron()) {
+      // warn the user only if he/she is in the browser context
       modalDialog(
         'Connect to localhost',
         remixdDialog(),
         { label: 'Connect',
           fn: () => {
-            this.locahostProvider.init((error) => {
-              if (error) {
-                console.log(error)
-                modalDialogCustom.alert(
-                  'Cannot connect to the remixd daemon.' +
-                  'Please make sure you have the remixd running in the background.'
-                )
-                this.canceled()
-              } else {
-                this.fileSystemExplorer.ensureRoot()
-              }
-            })
+            this.locahostProvider.init((error) => connection(error))
           }
         },
         { label: 'Cancel',
@@ -85,6 +88,8 @@ export class RemixdHandle extends Plugin {
           }
         }
       )
+    } else {
+      this.locahostProvider.init((error) => connection(error))
     }
   }
 }