diff --git a/elever/main.js b/elever/main.js
index 3a93b5aade3a40d37e7d9eaf544a18e89dd02c72..ef57995d73f699f14a9f2c1c25efc11f7f36059b 100644
--- a/elever/main.js
+++ b/elever/main.js
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ const app = electron.app
 
 // Module to create native browser window.
 const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow
-
 const path = require('path')
 const url = require('url')
 const {ipcMain} = require('electron');
@@ -24,7 +23,9 @@ function createWindow ()
   // Create the browser window.
   mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600, icon:path.join(__dirname,'..','leverjs/leverjs.ico'), 
     webPreferences: {
-      nodeIntegration: true
+      nodeIntegration: true,
+      contextIsolation: false,
+      enableRemoteModule: true
     } 
   });
  
diff --git a/leverjs/ImageWindowBuilder.js b/leverjs/ImageWindowBuilder.js
index 823c266807047dcf949c9f4622482c09da2aa191..2c9cf23767bde48a14b6f0323001cf42f86edeb2 100644
--- a/leverjs/ImageWindowBuilder.js
+++ b/leverjs/ImageWindowBuilder.js
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ var miniMapmousedrag = false;
 // database is read only
 var gbReadOnlyDB=false;
 
-const IS_NODE = typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports;
+// const IS_NODE = typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports;
+var IS_NODE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Electron') >= 0
 
 // set to tell render.js (reDraw) not to kick off a multires if we're in the experiment window
 var gbExperimentRender=false;
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ window.onload = function () {
             ROOT=params[1].slice('ROOT='.length)
             title=params[2].slice('TITLE='.length)
             
-            console.log('lever figure window found :: port='+port+" :: root="+root)
+            console.log('lever figure window found :: port='+port+" :: root="+ROOT)
             uiServer.init(port,window)
             document.title='leversc '+title
             setLeverscUI()
diff --git a/leversc/src/MATLAB/@leversc/show.m b/leversc/src/MATLAB/@leversc/show.m
index e6a01af93108cc582559f8e6e017a0793bcaf918..2ad1d3bec242fb393e668cc2f3708f2d0a6cd036 100644
--- a/leversc/src/MATLAB/@leversc/show.m
+++ b/leversc/src/MATLAB/@leversc/show.m
@@ -106,9 +106,19 @@ end
 
 function launch_electron_posix(port,fignum,workdir, leverpath,strDB)
 elec_cmd = 'leverjs';
+px = getenv('PATH');
 if ( ~isempty(leverpath) )
-    elec_path = fullfile(leverpath,'node_modules','.bin','electron');
-    elec_cmd = [elec_path ' ' fullfile(leverpath,'elever','main.js')];
+        % first try NVM
+        nvm_path = getenv('NVM_DIR');
+        if ~isempty(nvm_path)
+            [ret,elec_path] = system('source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh;which electron');  
+            elec_path = replace(elec_path,newline,'');
+            nodePath = fileparts(elec_path);            
+            px = [px ':' nodePath];
+        else
+            elec_path = fullfile(leverpath,'node_modules','.bin','electron');            
+        end
+        elec_cmd = [elec_path ' ' fullfile(leverpath,'elever','main.js')];
 else
     [status,~] = system(['which ' elec_cmd]);
     if ( status ~= 0 )
@@ -118,8 +128,8 @@ end
 if exist('strDB','var') && ~isempty(strDB)
     elec_cmd = [elec_cmd ' --leverFile=' strDB ' '];
 end
-cmd = [elec_cmd ' --port=' num2str(port) ' --title="figure ' num2str(fignum) '"' ' &'];
-system(cmd);
+cmd = [elec_cmd ' --port=' num2str(port) ' --title="figure ' num2str(fignum) '"' ' &']
+system(cmd,'PATH',px);
 end
 
 function launch_electron_windows(port,fignum,workdir, leverpath, strDB)