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Desktop Browser snapshots can stall after a webview is suspended and woken (#32410). Retrying the new capture surface's exact Unable to capture screenshot error also needs frames: main now separates painting from focus, so holding focus alone leaves a gap before the retry.
Change
Enable CDPScreenshotNewSurface before asynchronous Electron startup, preserving existing feature flags. For a current, focus-held capture with that exact error, keep its serialized slot, wait for two animation frames with a one-second host bound, and retry once even if the frame wait rejects.
A separate preparation token keeps painting through the wait. Navigation, detach, relay/session release and turn end invalidate that ownership; late work cannot retry a stale capture. Native capture accounting and screencast ownership remain separate. Idle focus does not keep painting or steal window focus.
Scope
Fixes#32410. The retry handles a post-navigation regression observed with the new surface. Desktop startup and the common native relay only; web/mobile callers, transports, tab suspension and public deadlines are unchanged. This does not add recovery for arbitrary native capture hangs.
Verification
The final regression cases fail 13 times against main and 10 times against the original retry mechanically adapted to current APIs. These are deterministic regression baselines, not a physical compositor-stall reproduction.
Final head 6a7990ce0b73fb1921d7ef1d38f176800113e165: all 75 focused host/startup/relay tests pass; vp run check:changed 43ce39595bfcea4af4b99b1fa77c7e1a73256da2 --concurrency 1 passes. The conflict-free rebase changes no patch bytes or reviewed source hashes. One independent review approved the full four-file diff (+258/−9); no findings.
Native macOS arm64 Electron 44.10.1 / Chromium 152 fixtures pass unpacked and ASAR-loaded, with sandbox and GPU enabled. Both exercise real relay/debugger/PNG capture. The missing-surface error and withheld frame promises are injected deterministically.
These results cover the exact reviewed source; the subsequent rebase adds only unrelated tests from main.
Limits: this is not a Linux/Wayland stall reproduction, signed/installed-package test (app.isPackaged=false), minimized-window test, or end-to-end remote test. Historical Linux startup proof and earlier native/review evidence predate this rewrite and do not validate its final lifecycle behavior.
Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with gpt-6.1-sol on xhigh. Reviewer verdict: approved
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Walkthrough
Desktop startup enables CDPScreenshotNewSurface. Held screenshot captures retry once after the exact "Unable to capture screenshot" error, following a bounded wait for two animation frames. Pending retry preparations keep painting active and are cleared when their request or related lifecycle ends.
Changes: Desktop screenshot capture
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Summary
Feature switch and startup test apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.test.ts
DesktopPreReadyPlatform.make adds CDPScreenshotNewSurface to the existing feature list. The startup test covers an unset switch, existing features, and a list that already contains the feature.
Held screenshot retry and cleanup apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.test.ts
For a current held capture, DesktopBrowserHost waits for two animation frames, with a one-second limit, and retries once after the exact missing-surface error. Pending preparations keep painting active and are cleared on completion or lifecycle changes. Tests cover retry outcomes, cleanup, capture ordering, and refusal errors.
sequenceDiagram
participant DesktopBrowserHost
participant CDP
participant GuestPage
DesktopBrowserHost->>CDP: Forward held screenshot capture
CDP-->>DesktopBrowserHost: Return missing-surface error
DesktopBrowserHost->>CDP: Evaluate two-frame wait
CDP->>GuestPage: Wait for two animation frames
DesktopBrowserHost->>CDP: Retry screenshot capture once
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Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, shivamhwp
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9ebfb
The change enables the new screenshot surface at startup and retries a held capture once after the missing-surface error. I found no concrete merge-blocking risk in the supplied evidence. Linux arm64 Wayland, Windows, and minimized-window behavior were not exercised.
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Title check
The title "fix(desktop): keep native snapshot retries painting" names the main change: a desktop fix that keeps the guest painting during the retry of a native screenshot capture that fails while focu…
Description check
The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. The Problem section explains the stalled snapshots after webview suspension and wake (issue #32410). The Chan…
Linked Issues check
[#32410] Objective: enable CDPScreenshotNewSurface before Electron startup and keep existing feature flags. The whole-PR diff (merge base f313d0a to head 9ebfba6) shows `apps/desktop/src/app/Desktop…
Out of Scope Changes check
Changes fall into three groups. (1) DesktopPreReadyPlatform.ts and its test implement the feature-flag objective of #32410. (2) DesktopBrowserHost.ts and its test add one retry. The retry applies …
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The title "fix(desktop): keep native snapshot retries painting" names the main change: a desktop fix that keeps the guest painting during the retry of a native screenshot capture that fails while focus is held. The changeset adds the CDPScreenshotNewSurface startup flag, the retry logic, and the preparation token that keeps painting. The title follows the conventional commit format and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history to understand the primary change.
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The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. The Problem section explains the stalled snapshots after webview suspension and wake (issue #32410). The Change section explains the startup flag and retry behavior. The Scope section links the issue and states exclusions. The Verification section lists focused test results, native fixture results, and stated limits. The template asks for a conventional commit title, and the title meets that. The description is detailed and mostly complete. It has one gap: the template asks for a short recording or screenshots only for UI changes, which does not apply here. It also does not state why the change needs no separate issue, but it links #32410, so that requirement is met.
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[#32410] Objective: enable CDPScreenshotNewSurface before Electron startup and keep existing feature flags. The whole-PR diff (merge base f313d0a to head 9ebfba6) shows apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.ts reading the enable-features switch, splitting it on commas, dropping empty entries, adding CDPScreenshotNewSurface to a Set (no duplicates), and calling appendSwitch before platform setup. DesktopPreReadyPlatform.test.ts covers unset, existing-value, and already-present cases, and asserts the appended switch. Objective: avoid the legacy CDP screenshot stall. The issue reports the stall was prevented by this flag. The PR does not add recovery from arbitrary native hangs, which the issue places out of scope. Native macOS fixtures and the retry are supporting evidence, not separate requirements of the issue. Residual uncertainty: the incremental diff from the previous reviewed head 6a7990c to 9ebfba6 could not be read because changed blobs are missing from the checkout. The enablement code was verified in the whole-PR diff at the current head, so the verdict rests on that.
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Changes fall into three groups. (1) DesktopPreReadyPlatform.ts and its test implement the feature-flag objective of #32410. (2) DesktopBrowserHost.ts and its test add one retry. The retry applies only to a current, focus-held screenshot that fails with the exact Unable to capture screenshot error from the newly enabled surface (isMissingSurface). It waits two animation frames through waitForFrame with a SURFACE_WAIT one-second bound (Effect.timeoutOption). It is ended by navigation, detach, relay or session release, and turn end (dropFocusHolds, owner release, and preparingScreenshots clearing). Other failures are not retried. The enablement introduces the surface that produces this error, so the retry is connected to #32410. It does not change tab suspension, transports, public timeouts, or web/mobile callers. (3) The test helper refuse change lets it return an Error. This supports the new retry tests. The Runtime.evaluate frame wait and the runPromise context are internal to this capture path. Residual uncertainty: the retry is not requested by the issue. The whole-PR diff for DesktopBrowserHost.ts was truncated, and the incremental diff since 6a7990c was unavailable, so the judgment uses the visible hunks and the PR summary.
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The test checks the switch only in the later Clerk callback. A late append can pass while leaving the screenshot fix ineffective. Model readiness independently and assert the switch when readiness occurs.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.test.ts around
lines 232 - 238:
Update the readiness test around ClerkShaped so readiness is modeled
independently of the later Clerk callback, and assert appendSwitchMock has the
expected switch when readiness occurs. Keep the existing Clerk callback
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.test.ts:
- Around line 232-238: Update the readiness test around ClerkShaped so readiness
is modeled independently of the later Clerk callback, and assert
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the verification section below is from the earlier gpt-6.1-sol pass.
Verified in a real dev environment
verified on Linux x64/X11 with Electron 44.10.1 and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. projects and threads were created through the app against real git repositories. drove the Chrome web client with repository Playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome, then the actual Electron client and native desktop preview relay. no mocks or fixtures.
found and fixed a regression in 7429d1b268: after navigating a hidden native preview with readiness=load, the new screenshot surface could fail with Unable to capture screenshot. the fix keeps painting held for two animation frames and retries that specific error once, within the existing serialized capture.
main baseline: the intermittent stall did not reproduce. 12 suspended scroll captures and all six immediate navigation captures passed.
original PR: repeated suspended captures worked, but all three immediate repository-root captures after issues/root navigation failed. independent second-tab routing passed.
fixed head: all six navigation captures and 12 suspended captures alternating README scroll positions passed. a recorded follow-up passed both immediate captures too, without caller retries. actual guest state was suspended.
the matching main/fixed README captures are byte-identical. the regression test failed before the fix. vp run check:changed 83a3674ffd84ffb33de768210c806cb1ac53fd80 passed through blacksmith-check, including 43 tests. two independent reviews found no blocker or should-fix findings at this head.
could not reproduce the reported intermittent arm64 Wayland/Hyprland stall on main in this x64 X11 VM, so this does not prove that original platform-specific issue is resolved. macOS, Windows, native mobile, minimized windows, sandbox-enabled rendering and other GPU configurations were not exercised. Electron required --no-sandbox in this VM; its GPU blocklist also limits platform coverage.
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merged current main (23f14601d8, merge commit, no rebase). the one conflict was the debuggee test helper: kept main's loading option and this PR's boolean | Error refusal.
6e05ed0bc6 bounds the two-frame surface wait to 1 second on the host (Effect.timeoutOption), so a page that withholds requestAnimationFrame callbacks can no longer keep later screenshots queued. the retry still goes through forward(current), so a capture the page moved on from is not resent. a new case in DesktopBrowserHost.test.ts hangs without the bound and passes with it.
CodeRabbit's out-of-scope note on the retry path: kept, since it fixes the post-navigation Unable to capture screenshot regression the new screenshot surface introduced (see above).
vp run check:changed passed through blacksmith-check: format, lint, knip, typecheck, 47 tests.
not re-verified in Electron after this change; it only adds an upper bound to an existing wait.
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts:
- Around line 358-366: Bound the Runtime.evaluate frame wait with a host-side
timeout so a page that never invokes the animation-frame callback cannot keep
the screenshot retry path pending. Ensure the timeout or completed capture
invalidates the wait, so a late frame callback cannot send a retry after the
snapshot has timed out.
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Remove the `DesktopBrowserHost` retry path and its supporting test changes, so
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359-365: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
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Retry guard can pass a stale current() check and the retry result is not checked after the wait.
After the Runtime.evaluate wait, forward(current) runs the retry. forward re-checks current() inside run, so a stale capture is rejected. This is correct.
The earlier concern about an unbounded frame wait is addressed by Effect.timeoutOption(SURFACE_WAIT). The wait now ends after one second and the retry proceeds.
One residual risk remains. If the Runtime.evaluate promise rejects, Effect.promise turns the rejection into a defect. runPromise then rejects with that defect, so the original capture error is replaced by an Effect defect error. Use Effect.ignore on a Effect.tryPromise call, or catch the rejection, so a failed frame wait still leads to the retry. A failed wait occurs when the page navigates during the evaluate or the debugger detaches.
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.
On both commits: open the synthetic page in the native Browser; perform six visible colour/button-label updates; hide Browser and confirm its wrapper is suspended, hidden and offscreen before each snapshot. After cycles 2 and 5, navigate the suspended tab and immediately request a snapshot without updating the fresh document. Repeat captures to check stability and subsequent requests. The selected post-navigation request began 10ms after navigation returned on base and 35ms after navigation returned on head. Both sides returned all 12 snapshots successfully, with current pixels and accessibility text. Selected stills matched subsequent unchanged captures taken more than 500ms later with zero differing pixels.
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fix(desktop): prevent native browser snapshots from stalling
fix(desktop): keep native snapshot retries painting
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the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:
Permanent blocker: the reproduction requires an affected Linux arm64 Wayland/Hyprland desktop with sandbox and GPU enabled. The available VM provides x86_64/X11 without a GPU device; an Xvfb run would substitute different conditions.
Current pixels after hidden/suspended guest wake cycles, recovery after navigation, the missing-surface retry, and suppression of superseded retries remain unverified in the real app. The scenario runner cannot exercise Electron native Browser behavior.
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Problem
Desktop Browser snapshots can stall after a webview is suspended and woken (#32410). Retrying the new capture surface's exact
Unable to capture screenshoterror also needs frames: main now separates painting from focus, so holding focus alone leaves a gap before the retry.Change
Enable
CDPScreenshotNewSurfacebefore asynchronous Electron startup, preserving existing feature flags. For a current, focus-held capture with that exact error, keep its serialized slot, wait for two animation frames with a one-second host bound, and retry once even if the frame wait rejects.A separate preparation token keeps painting through the wait. Navigation, detach, relay/session release and turn end invalidate that ownership; late work cannot retry a stale capture. Native capture accounting and screencast ownership remain separate. Idle focus does not keep painting or steal window focus.
Scope
Fixes #32410. The retry handles a post-navigation regression observed with the new surface. Desktop startup and the common native relay only; web/mobile callers, transports, tab suspension and public deadlines are unchanged. This does not add recovery for arbitrary native capture hangs.
Verification
6a7990ce0b73fb1921d7ef1d38f176800113e165: all 75 focused host/startup/relay tests pass;vp run check:changed 43ce39595bfcea4af4b99b1fa77c7e1a73256da2 --concurrency 1passes. The conflict-free rebase changes no patch bytes or reviewed source hashes. One independent review approved the full four-file diff (+258/−9); no findings.Native fixture runtime ledger (both loading modes)
These results cover the exact reviewed source; the subsequent rebase adds only unrelated tests from main.
Limits: this is not a Linux/Wayland stall reproduction, signed/installed-package test (
app.isPackaged=false), minimized-window test, or end-to-end remote test. Historical Linux startup proof and earlier native/review evidence predate this rewrite and do not validate its final lifecycle behavior.Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with gpt-6.1-sol on xhigh. Reviewer verdict: approved
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