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fix(server): remote viewers reach a tab the desktop cannot paint - #27735
A remote viewer stays on "Connecting…" forever when the desktop app hosts the environment and its window is minimized. A desktop-rendered tab only produces frames while the host window is composited, so the viewer's first capture never answers. attachViewer runs before the WebSocket upgrade, so the socket never opens.
The page itself still looks healthy. document.visibilityState is "visible", navigation succeeds, and requestAnimationFrame never fires, which matches the report on #22461 after #25184 shipped.
Change
Desktop tabs now get 5 seconds to deliver a first frame to a viewer. If they don't, the server marks the tab headless and drops it with the existing reconnect end, so the client reconnects and findTab reopens the page in headless Chromium. Headless tabs and desktop tabs that paint are unchanged.
The move carries the page URL and downloads to the replacement tab. A new headless page normally only navigates when the session is still Loading, so a tab that had finished loading would otherwise reopen blank.
Behavior to review:
The page reloads when it moves, so unsaved page state is lost and it uses the server browser profile instead of the desktop one. The viewer could not see that page either way.
Downloads the tab already finished stay available, because the new page takes over the same folder and list.
A moved tab stays headless until it closes, as markHeadless already documents. New tabs render on the desktop again.
A viewer that attaches to a tab whose window was minimized after the page loaded takes the same path, because the first still does not answer.
This is one problem: a desktop tab that cannot paint never reaches a remote viewer. #22461 was closed by #25184 and is still reported on Linux on 0.1.5. I reproduced the minimized case below, but I did not confirm every report in those issues has this cause, so I used Refs rather than Fixes.
This complements #27663. That PR opens the socket when a renderer stops answering, while this one gets the viewer a picture when the host cannot paint. If #27663 lands first, this needs a rebase onto its forked capture.
Verification
Reproduced on Fedora 44, GNOME on Wayland, with Electron on X11 under Xwayland. The desktop dev build hosted an isolated data directory, and a scripted client paired as a remote viewer through /api/preview-stream/ws. The tab was an animated local fixture that counts requestAnimationFrame calls and records clicks and typing, opened in a thread that was not on screen. The window state was confirmed Iconic / _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN with xprop.
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With the fix, ServerBrowser.attachViewer ended at 5,006 ms, the viewer reconnected once, and the tab reported headless: true. The visible case did not reconnect and stayed desktop-rendered.
New test a desktop tab that paints nothing moves to headless and its viewer reconnects covers a tab that had already loaded. It also checks that a finished download survives the move. It passes here and times out on the base commit, and the download check fails if the folder is deleted.
a desktop tab whose first capture fails moves to headless without a frame covers a still that errors instead of hanging. A failed still waits for a live frame until the deadline, because one failure does not prove the page cannot paint.
Two viewers timing out together is exercised in the first test, but it did not force the interleaving where the second move finds the tab already replaced, so the tabs.get(key) !== tab guard itself is not proven by a test.
vp test run src/preview/ in apps/server: all ServerBrowser tests pass. ServerBrowserPage.test.ts fails with and without this change because the Playwright browser is not installed on this machine.
vp fmt, vp lint, knip:check and tsc --noEmit for apps/server pass.
Known limit: a host window covered by another maximized window is throttled, not stopped. On GNOME the page ran at about 1 rAF/s and the viewer got 8 to 44 frames in 11 s, with clicks and typing working. Frames still arrive, so the tab does not move to headless. Static pages send no screencast frames, so a low frame rate alone cannot show that a page is throttled.
Not checked: a locked screen, macOS, Windows, Electron on native Wayland, and iOS or Android clients. A viewer that stays connected while the window is minimized is not moved until it reconnects.
An earlier attempt with webContents.incrementCapturerCount stopped the tab painting even with the window visible, so I dropped it.
A desktop-rendered tab only produces frames while its host window is
composited. With the window minimized, the first capture never answers,
so the stream socket never upgrades and the viewer stays on "Connecting…"
forever.
Give desktop tabs a deadline for the first frame. When it passes, mark the
tab headless and tell the viewer to reconnect, which reopens the page in
headless Chromium.
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🟠 Highpreview/ServerBrowser.ts:2501
When a desktop tab with completed downloads is minimized, attaching a viewer triggers this fallback and deletes those files, so previously returned download paths and IDs stop working even though the logical tab remains open. moveTabToHeadless reaches dropTab, which removes downloadDir(tab) and discards tab.downloads; preserve or transfer the download files and metadata during migration instead of running destructive cleanup.
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When a desktop tab with completed downloads is minimized, attaching a viewer triggers this fallback and deletes those files, so previously returned download paths and IDs stop working even though the logical tab remains open. `moveTabToHeadless` reaches `dropTab`, which removes `downloadDir(tab)` and discards `tab.downloads`; preserve or transfer the download files and metadata during migration instead of running destructive cleanup.
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Moving a desktop tab dropped it through the normal cleanup, which deleted
its download folder even though the tab stays open.
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Desktop viewer startup now waits for a still capture or an initial live frame. If a desktop tab provides neither within five seconds, the browser moves it to headless Chromium and preserves its URL and downloads for the replacement tab.
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Summary
Headless transition and download handoff apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts
The browser saves the tab URL and downloads during a headless transition. The replacement tab restores the saved URL and downloads.
Viewer startup checks for a still capture or live frame. If a desktop tab produces no live frame within five seconds after a failed capture, the browser moves it to headless Chromium. Tests cover the timeout, reconnection, URL restoration, and download retention.
sequenceDiagram
participant Viewer
participant ServerBrowser
participant HeadlessChromium
Viewer->>ServerBrowser: Attach to desktop tab
ServerBrowser->>ServerBrowser: Attempt still capture and wait for first live frame
ServerBrowser->>HeadlessChromium: Reopen tab at saved URL if no frame arrives within five seconds
ServerBrowser->>Viewer: Send reconnect
The fallback to headless Chromium works for the reported minimized-window case. If the page has not finished its first navigation when the fallback fires, the viewer can reconnect to a blank tab instead of the requested page. Two edge cases are low impact: a stale viewer can mark a healthy replacement session headless, and downloads can be retained after a failed replacement launch followed by session close. Fix the blank-URL case and replace the sleep in the new test before merging.
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- Around line 2498-2501: Track whether pushStill successfully delivered a frame,
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pushStill swallows capture errors, so a desktop tab whose still failed
looked finished and never moved to headless, leaving the viewer without a
picture. Wait for a live frame until the deadline instead, because one
failed still does not prove the page cannot paint.
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- Line 623: Replace the setTimeout-based Effect.promise delay in the test with
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:
- Line 747: Update the reload flow around markHeadless to invalidate or drain
pending reports from the old tab before manager.list and findTab select the
replacement’s navigation state, so a stale Success report cannot override
Loading and cause createTab to open about:blank.
- Line 794: Move the movedDownloads deletion in the replacement-tab flow until
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- Line 749: In the move flow around movedDownloads.set, prevent concurrent moves
from acting on a stale tab: after markHeadless completes, verify tab is still
the current tab before recording or cleaning up its downloads. Alternatively,
reuse a single in-flight move operation per tab so resumed moves cannot reinsert
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- Line 751: Update attachViewer so the findTab operation for tab.threadId and
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Replace the timer with a cleanup milestone.
The pipeline reports that tsc --noEmit fails on this setTimeout. The delay also cannot prove that cleanup will not run later. Make cleanup observable and await its completion before checking the file.
As per coding guidelines: “Tests must not rely on sleeps or polling to await work.”
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Deliver reconnect before waiting for browser startup.
attachViewer cannot return its queued reconnect until findTab finishes. On a first headless launch, PreviewBrowser can wait up to 45 seconds for installation, so the viewer remains connecting well beyond the five-second deadline. Start replacement creation independently and return the reconnect promptly. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update attachViewer so the findTab operation for tab.threadId and tab.tabId runs
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A late status report could put the tab back to Success before the new page
opened, so it stayed on about:blank. Carry the URL with the move instead of
relying on the session's status. Two viewers timing out together could also
restore stale downloads and delete the new tab's folder, so the second move
now stops when the tab has already been replaced.
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Cover a live frame before the rejected-capture deadline.
The rejected-capture test advances the clock to the five-second deadline before it joins the attach fiber. Its assertions run after the join and check only the reconnect item and headless: true. A change that moves the tab as soon as the still capture rejects can pass these assertions. The PR's follow-up keeps waiting for a live frame until the deadline instead of treating a failed still capture as proof that capture is finished. No test covers that path.
Add a case that emits Page.screencastFrame on the desktop session after the rejected capture and before the deadline. Assert that the viewer receives the frame without a reconnect item, and that the tab stays desktop-rendered (headless is not true). Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior (docs/internals/testing.md).
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Add a focused case to the rejected-capture test around TestClock.adjust that
emits Page.screencastFrame on the desktop session after the still capture
rejects but before the five-second deadline. Assert the viewer receives the
frame without a reconnect item and the tab remains desktop-rendered, with
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verified as-is at e45a986719cc1ad166a1fbbc0856404b156d80b2 on this linux x11 vm. no source changes or pushes.
installed dependencies with vp i on github/main (5fe18d79ac) in ../main, then on the exact contributor head. ran one backend at a time. started vp run dev in the background, then used the real electron dev host with its owned backend and web vite client because this bug requires the desktop browser channel.
used repo playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome as the remote web client. created the project and threads through the app. real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns built a working task-list app on main and inspected it on the pr. no mocks, fixtures, or demo data. the same persisted task was used for both captures.
main: remote input saved a task while the host was visible. after minimizing the electron window and reloading the remote client, the viewer remained on "connecting..." for over 30 seconds.
pr: repeated the minimized-window reconnect. the desktop guest moved to headless chromium and the task page returned while the host remained minimized. added a task, toggled completion, opened help, used back and forward, and refreshed through the streamed browser. the saved task changes survived.
downloaded tasks.csv before migration using the viewer's save action. after migration, the original download url returned 200 with byte-for-byte identical contents, including after later task edits.
blacksmith-check ran vp test run apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts: all 34 tests passed. the current head also reports 29 successful ci checks.
the five-second deadline bounds the first capture, not the whole reconnect. this run spent another 8.4 seconds in replacement-tab creation; the first stream request ended after 13.4 seconds and the client retried successfully. the saved download temporarily returned 404 during that replacement gap, then returned the preserved file once the tab was ready.
short runtime transcript:
$ xprop -id <owned-electron-window> WM_STATE _NET_WM_STATE
window state: Iconic
_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN
main remote client after reload, >30 seconds: Connecting...
pr trace: PreviewManager.markHeadless; ServerBrowser.findTab 8411ms
pr remote client after reconnect: You have control; Task List rendered
completed download survives headless migration: 200 true
help navigation: http://localhost:4311/help
back / forward / refresh: http://localhost:4311/
persisted tasks: "verify remote preview" completed; "check input after fallback" saved
ServerBrowser.test.ts: 34 passed
main, minimized host:
pr, same task data and minimized host:
15-second recording of input, completion, help navigation, history, and refresh after fallback. this animated copy renders inline on github; the original mp4 was inspected and its uploaded playback and seeking checked in t3:
Not verified
macos, windows, native wayland, locked-screen behavior, and native ios/android clients were not available in this linux x11 environment. relay/tunnel transport and other providers were not exercised. a viewer that stays connected through minimization was not tested for recovery; this change handles attachment/reconnection.
Main now bounds and forks the viewer's first still, so the first-frame
deadline for desktop tabs runs as a forked watcher instead of holding
attachViewer, and the move runs detached so a viewer that reconnects
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…e fails to open
The move used to hand its URL and downloads to createTab before the page
existed, so a failed launch left the next viewer a blank tab with no
downloads. The entry now stays until the replacement is published, and
the files go only when the session itself is gone.
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Minor · Release retained moves when an inactive session closes. · ServerBrowser.ts:2830-2831
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:2830-2831 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Release retained moves when an inactive session closes.
If replacement launch fails, movedTabs intentionally retains the URL and downloads. After pendingTabs clears, a later closed event reaches this return without removing that retained state or its download directory. Closed sessions can therefore retain large downloads until server restart.
Handle retained moves in the closed branch even when no live tab or pending launch exists.
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Update the closed-event handling around movedTabs so a closed session releases its retained URL and download directory even when there is no live tab or pending launch. Preserve the existing cleanup for live and pending tabs, and ensure the no-tab early return does not bypass retained-move cleanup.
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- Line 936: Check that the tab is still the active session before calling
markHeadless in the reconnect timeout flow; otherwise, an obsolete tab can mark
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- Line 939: Update the minimized-tab save flow around movedTabs.set so it
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Check tab identity before changing the session.
If the desktop detaches and reconnects before this deadline, the old viewer can still have reconnect queued in its open scope. Its timeout then marks the replacement session headless before Line 938 rejects the obsolete tab. The healthy desktop replacement now has a headless snapshot, and its next recreation unnecessarily switches runtimes.
Add an identity check before markHeadless. Keep the existing check after the yield.
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Check that the tab is still the active session before calling markHeadless in the reconnect timeout flow; otherwise, an obsolete tab can mark its replacement session headless. Preserve the existing identity check after the yield.
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Problem
A remote viewer stays on "Connecting…" forever when the desktop app hosts the environment and its window is minimized. A desktop-rendered tab only produces frames while the host window is composited, so the viewer's first capture never answers.
attachViewerruns before the WebSocket upgrade, so the socket never opens.The page itself still looks healthy.
document.visibilityStateis"visible", navigation succeeds, andrequestAnimationFramenever fires, which matches the report on #22461 after #25184 shipped.Change
Desktop tabs now get 5 seconds to deliver a first frame to a viewer. If they don't, the server marks the tab headless and drops it with the existing
reconnectend, so the client reconnects andfindTabreopens the page in headless Chromium. Headless tabs and desktop tabs that paint are unchanged.The move carries the page URL and downloads to the replacement tab. A new headless page normally only navigates when the session is still
Loading, so a tab that had finished loading would otherwise reopen blank.Behavior to review:
markHeadlessalready documents. New tabs render on the desktop again.Scope and approval
Refs #22461, #24228, #23015, #27610
This is one problem: a desktop tab that cannot paint never reaches a remote viewer. #22461 was closed by #25184 and is still reported on Linux on 0.1.5. I reproduced the minimized case below, but I did not confirm every report in those issues has this cause, so I used
Refsrather thanFixes.This complements #27663. That PR opens the socket when a renderer stops answering, while this one gets the viewer a picture when the host cannot paint. If #27663 lands first, this needs a rebase onto its forked capture.
Verification
Reproduced on Fedora 44, GNOME on Wayland, with Electron on X11 under Xwayland. The desktop dev build hosted an isolated data directory, and a scripted client paired as a remote viewer through
/api/preview-stream/ws. The tab was an animated local fixture that countsrequestAnimationFramecalls and records clicks and typing, opened in a thread that was not on screen. The window state was confirmedIconic/_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDENwithxprop.6fc9144a60(base)With the fix,
ServerBrowser.attachViewerended at 5,006 ms, the viewer reconnected once, and the tab reportedheadless: true. The visible case did not reconnect and stayed desktop-rendered.a desktop tab that paints nothing moves to headless and its viewer reconnectscovers a tab that had already loaded. It also checks that a finished download survives the move. It passes here and times out on the base commit, and the download check fails if the folder is deleted.a desktop tab whose first capture fails moves to headless without a framecovers a still that errors instead of hanging. A failed still waits for a live frame until the deadline, because one failure does not prove the page cannot paint.tabs.get(key) !== tabguard itself is not proven by a test.vp test run src/preview/inapps/server: all ServerBrowser tests pass.ServerBrowserPage.test.tsfails with and without this change because the Playwright browser is not installed on this machine.vp fmt,vp lint,knip:checkandtsc --noEmitforapps/serverpass.Known limit: a host window covered by another maximized window is throttled, not stopped. On GNOME the page ran at about 1 rAF/s and the viewer got 8 to 44 frames in 11 s, with clicks and typing working. Frames still arrive, so the tab does not move to headless. Static pages send no screencast frames, so a low frame rate alone cannot show that a page is throttled.
Not checked: a locked screen, macOS, Windows, Electron on native Wayland, and iOS or Android clients. A viewer that stays connected while the window is minimized is not moved until it reconnects.
An earlier attempt with
webContents.incrementCapturerCountstopped the tab painting even with the window visible, so I dropped it.Work done by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.
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