# Can't find "Manage Palette" on the menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [13 September 2022 04:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635 "2022-09-13T04:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![uhei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c0e974/32.png) [@uhei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/uhei)\
**Post date:** [13 September 2022 04:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635/1 "2022-09-13T04:40:21Z")

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Hello everybody,

I'm currently trying to get Node-RED (3.0.2) to run inside Electron (23.3.3).

I'm making an app based on Dceejay's "electron-node-red".  
([GitHub - dceejay/electron-node-red: Electron Node-RED template](https://github.com/dceejay/electron-node-red))

When I distribute my application to a PC that does not have Node.js and start it, the "Manage Palette" is not found on the menu.  
When I installed Node.js on that PC, the "Manage Palette" appeared, but I assume that the application is implemented on a PC that does not have Node.js installed.

"palette" in var settings' editorTheme is true.  
Electron version is 20.0.0, and Npm version is 8.19.1.

Please give me some advice  
@dceejay

Thank you so much

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [13 September 2022 07:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635/2 "2022-09-13T07:03:12Z")

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> [@uhei](#):
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> When I distribute my application to a PC that does not have Node.js and start it, the "Manage Palette" is not found on the menu.

This will be because on the other PC, node-red will not know there to find the `npm` command. Also, it should tell you in the start up log why there is no palette manager - if you can access it (I dont know how you have your project setup or if you even redirect output to a file or to syslog etc)

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**Author:** ![uhei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c0e974/32.png) [@uhei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/uhei)\
**Post date:** [13 September 2022 07:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635/3 "2022-09-13T07:49:50Z")

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Thanks reply.

I don't know how to output the log (eg Welcome to Node-RED…), but I thought it was probably caused by the path about npm command.

However,I pass the path like this, but it doesn't work.(for Windows)

```auto
process.env.PATH = ['./node_modules/.bin',
'./node_modules',
'/usr/local/bin',
process.env.PATH
].join(';');

```

Is this the correct way to pass the path?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [12 November 2022 07:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-find-manage-palette-on-the-menu/67635/4 "2022-11-12T07:49:54Z")

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