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On Linux the HUD overlay falls back to a compact bottom-centered window because mouse passthrough is unavailable. The expansion that grows the window for HUD popovers was guarded by `process.platform !== "linux"`, so it never ran on the only platform that needs it, and dropdown menus (camera, microphone, language, timer) rendered clipped behind the bar. Move the interaction -> expansion mapping into hudOverlayBounds and drop the inverted platform guard so the window expands while interactive and compacts again when click-through is restored. Fixes webadderallorg#944
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a shared helper for HUD fallback expansion decisions. Mouse passthrough handling uses the helper, and tests cover supported passthrough plus interactive and click-through states. ChangesHUD overlay fallback expansion
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant setHudOverlayMousePassthrough
participant getHudOverlayFallbackExpansionForInteraction
participant setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded
setHudOverlayMousePassthrough->>getHudOverlayFallbackExpansionForInteraction: pass passthrough support and ignoreMouse
getHudOverlayFallbackExpansionForInteraction-->>setHudOverlayMousePassthrough: return expansion decision
setHudOverlayMousePassthrough->>setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded: apply non-null expansion
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to HUD menus opened during recording may remain clipped on Linux because interaction-driven expansion can be ignored. Resolve this path and add coverage before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/windows.ts`:
- Line 320: Update the interaction-driven expansion around
setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded so it can expand the Linux fallback while
hudOverlayRecordingActive is true, without breaking recording behavior. Keep
webcam-preview expansion unchanged, and add a regression test covering an
interactive menu during recording with no webcam preview.
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Keep fallback expansion active during recording.
When hudOverlayRecordingActive is true, setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded() resets hudOverlayFallbackExpanded to false and returns. This call therefore cannot expand the Linux fallback when a menu becomes interactive. The HUD remains compact unless the webcam-preview condition expands it.
Store interaction expansion separately, or allow this interaction-driven expansion during recording. Add a regression test for an interactive menu while recording without a webcam preview.
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In `@electron/windows.ts` at line 320, Update the interaction-driven expansion
around setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded so it can expand the Linux fallback while
hudOverlayRecordingActive is true, without breaking recording behavior. Keep
webcam-preview expansion unchanged, and add a regression test covering an
interactive menu during recording with no webcam preview.
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Summary
Fixes #944.
On Linux the recording HUD falls back to a compact, non-passthrough window (mouse passthrough is unavailable there). Dropdown popovers in the HUD — Camera, Microphone, Language, Timer — open upward from the bar but were clipped by the window bounds, so only part of the menu was visible.
Root cause
electron/windows.ts→setHudOverlayMousePassthrough():isHudOverlayMousePassthroughSupported()returnsprocess.platform !== "linux", so the outer branch is only entered on Linux — which makes the innerprocess.platform !== "linux"guard always false. The fallback expansion (which grows the window to860×540DIP,NON_PASSTHROUGH_HUD_EXPANDED_HEIGHT_DIP) therefore never ran on any platform.Meanwhile the HUD popovers render inside the HUD window (
usePortal: false,side: "top") withmax-height: 400px(.menuCard), which cannot fit in the860×160DIP compact fallback → clipping.Fix
Move the "interactive → expand" decision into
hudOverlayBoundsas a pure, tested helper and drop the inverted guard:Behaviour: on non-passthrough platforms the overlay expands while interactive and compacts again once click-through is restored. Platforms with real passthrough (
null) keep the existing full-work-area window and never resize.Testing
npx tsc --noEmit— passnpm run lint— passnpm run format:checkon changed files — passnpm test— 133 files / 1186 tests pass, including 3 new regression tests inelectron/hudOverlayBounds.test.tsManual verification on Pop!_OS 22.04, X11, 125% display scale (
xwininfo):1075 × 2001075 × 675Camera / source / microphone / language / timer menus now render fully.
Affects Linux (X11 and Wayland); Wayland users in the issue thread see the same clipping because the compact fallback is used there too.
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