Getting Started

Installation

The Explore Desktop installer
Download the Explore Desktop installer.

Windows

  1. If you haven’t already, download the appropriate Explore Desktop Pro version 1.0.1 or Explore Desktop Legacy version 0.7.3 from GitHub. Select the .exe file.

  2. Double-click on the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.

  3. Once installed, Explore Desktop will reside in the Explore Desktop folder in your installation directory.

Mac OSX

  1. If you haven’t already, download the appropriate Explore Desktop installer from GitHub. The file you should select depends on your Mac chip. If your Mac uses an M1 chip, download the file ending _mac_chip_m1.zip. Otherwise, download the file ending _mac_chip_intel.zip .

  2. Right-click on the downloaded file and click on Show Package Contents.

Once you have downloaded the installer, right click to open its package contents.
  1. Navigate to Mac OSX folder and open a terminal.
Open a terminal in your Mac OSX folder
  1. Set the appropriate permission using the chmod +x ExploreDesktopInstaller_x64 command. The screenshot demonstrates this below. Doing this will give Explore Desktop permission to install.
Use the `chmod +x ExploreDesktopInstaller_x64` command to set appropriate permissions.

  1. Right-click on the top level file ExploreDesktopInstaller_x64 file and install ExploreDesktop.

  2. Head to Privacy & Security and ensure that both Bluetooth and Accessibility permissions for ExploreDesktop is enabled. Make sure to remove the current Explore Desktop entry from both Bluetooth and Accessibility sections and add it again.

Allow Bluetooth permission. Make sure to allow accessibility permission as well.
  1. Now right-click on the installed ExploreDesktop file and select Open.
Right-click on `ExploreDesktop` to open.

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