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fix: avoid Linux WebGPU export failures - #901

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Summary

  • prefer WebGL for Linux exports when the backend is automatic
  • stage VideoFrame uploads through canvas to avoid Pixi WebGPU _resourceType failures
  • preserve explicit WebGPU selection for users who opt into it

Verification

  • npm test — 1,083 tests passed
  • npx tsc --noEmit
  • npm run build:linux

The Linux WebGPU failure was caused by Electron requesting a device with a 16-texture per-stage limit while Pixi generated a 32-texture batch pipeline; the _resourceType exception was a downstream symptom.

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable keyboard shortcuts for pausing and resuming active recordings.
    • Shortcut matching now supports platform-specific modifier keys and the default Play/Pause shortcut.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved video export frame handling for scenes, backgrounds, and webcam footage.
    • Linux exports now default to WebGL, while other platforms continue to default to WebGPU.
    • Improved frame cleanup during export to support more reliable rendering across platforms.

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The frame renderer now selects backend order by runtime and routes video frames through canvas staging. Electron now supports configurable keyboard shortcuts that toggle recording pause state through the IPC bridge.

Changes

Frame renderer runtime handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime-aware backend selection
src/lib/exporter/modernFrameRenderer.ts
The renderer detects Linux runtimes and selects WebGL before WebGPU. Non-Linux WebGPU-capable runtimes select WebGPU first.
Canvas-based video frame staging
src/lib/exporter/modernFrameRenderer.ts
Scene, background, and webcam frames now use canvas staging. The retained WebGPU VideoFrame path is removed.

Recording pause shortcut

Layer / File(s) Summary
Keyboard event contracts and capture
electron/ipc/types.ts, electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts
Keyboard hook event types, key normalization, platform-specific shortcut matching, listener registration, and cleanup are added.
Configured recording shortcut handling
electron/ipc/register/recording.ts
The recording handler loads the configured shortcut, suppresses repeated keydown events, broadcasts pause toggles, and clears shortcut state during recording lifecycle changes.
Pause toggle IPC bridge and application handling
electron/preload.ts, electron/electron-env.d.ts, src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx
The preload bridge exposes pause-toggle events, and the launch window pauses or resumes active recording.
Keyboard shortcut matching validation
electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.test.ts
Tests cover space-key normalization and platform-specific primary modifier matching.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the Linux export and global recording shortcut changes because they affect core rendering reliability and recording controls across the desktop app.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b39b5

The recording pause shortcut does not work on macOS, and destroyed renderers may retain large staging resources. These issues should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant uiohook
  participant RecordingIPC
  participant PreloadBridge
  participant LaunchWindow

  User->>uiohook: Press configured shortcut
  uiohook->>RecordingIPC: Send keydown event
  RecordingIPC->>RecordingIPC: Match shortcut and suppress repeats
  RecordingIPC->>PreloadBridge: Broadcast recording-toggle-pause
  PreloadBridge->>LaunchWindow: Invoke pause callback
  LaunchWindow->>LaunchWindow: Pause or resume active recording
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src/lib/exporter/modernFrameRenderer.ts (1)

3515-3516: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Release the background staging canvas in destroy().

A decoded video background now uses backgroundVideoFrameStagingCanvas. This cleanup clears the scene and webcam staging fields but leaves the background canvas and context referenced. If code retains the destroyed FrameRenderer, the full-resolution background canvas remains allocated.

Proposed fix
 		this.sceneVideoFrameStagingCanvas = null;
 		this.sceneVideoFrameStagingCtx = null;
+		this.backgroundVideoFrameStagingCanvas = null;
+		this.backgroundVideoFrameStagingCtx = null;
 		this.webcamVideoFrameStagingCanvas = null;
 		this.webcamVideoFrameStagingCtx = null;
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In `@src/lib/exporter/modernFrameRenderer.ts` around lines 3515 - 3516, Update
destroy() to release backgroundVideoFrameStagingCanvas and its associated
context in addition to the existing scene and background bitmap cleanup,
ensuring a retained FrameRenderer no longer keeps the full-resolution background
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- Around line 3515-3516: Update destroy() to release
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electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts (1)

337-339: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a macOS shortcut path.

shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook() returns false on macOS before the new keyboard listeners register. As a result, recording-toggle-pause is never sent for macOS recordings.

Keep this guard for the existing hook safety constraint, but register a safe macOS alternative for the recording shortcut.

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In `@electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts` around lines 337 - 339, Update the
interaction setup around shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook so macOS registers a
safe alternative listener for the recording-toggle-pause shortcut before
returning from the guard. Preserve the existing early return and global hook
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Hey! I've also got an open PR for this bug (#908) — our approaches look complementary rather than competing.

One data point that might help your work: in my testing on Linux (Hyprland/Wayland, Electron 43.1.0, AMD RADV), the crash happens on the first rendered frame (frameCount: 0, renderFrameMs: 0 in the export report) — before the retained-frames machinery comes into play. I confirmed via a minimal repro (clean Electron + pixi WebGPURenderer + per-frame texture swap) that the _resourceType TypeError comes from pixi's WebGPU path, while WebGL and the WebCodecs software encoder work fine.

My PR keeps WebGPU as the default and adds an automatic one-shot WebGL retry when a render-stage failure occurs (renderFallbackUsed in export metrics). If yours fixes the root render crash, my fallback just never fires — they can coexist.

There's some textual overlap in modernFrameRenderer.ts / preload.ts / electron-env.d.ts, but it should be trivial to resolve if both get merged. Happy to coordinate or rebase if yours lands first. Cheers!

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