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fix(desktop): a server restart no longer reopens a closed window on macOS - #24102
On macOS, T3 Code keeps running in the Dock after you close its window with Cmd+W. If the local server then exits unexpectedly (crash, OOM, kill), it restarts automatically. When it becomes ready again, a new main window opens and takes focus from whatever app is in front. The cause is that backend readiness is reported after every restart, not only at launch, and handleBackendReady creates a main window whenever none exists. Expected: a window the user closed stays closed until they ask for it.
DesktopWindow now tracks whether the main window was closed:
The main window's closed handler sets the flag.
activate clears it. This covers Dock clicks, launching the app again, and the menu paths that call activate.
A revealing menu action that arrives with no window while the backend is restarting sets a separate revealWhenReady flag, so the window opens once the server is back. The closed flag stays set, so a Dock click before then still opens the window right away. Non-revealing actions leave a closed window closed.
handleBackendReady still marks the backend ready, but skips window creation while the flag is set.
Effects:
First launch: the first readiness still opens the window. The flag starts false.
Startup retries: if the server fails before it is ever ready and then retries, it still opens the window when it finally becomes ready.
Local environment disabled: this boot path never goes through handleBackendReady, so it is unchanged.
Dock click during a restart: the click clears the flag, so the window opens as soon as the server is back. Before this change that worked only because every readiness opened a window.
Windows and Linux: closing the last window quits the app there, so nothing changes in practice.
This is one bug in one module, apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts, plus focused tests. It restores the behavior the suite already expects for closed windows: see does not reopen a closed main window for a completed capture.
Verification
New tests in the existing apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts, using its layerTest harness and it.effect:
keeps a closed main window closed when the backend restarts. The test drives backend ready (one window, checking that the first launch still opens it), then fires the window's closed event, then handleBackendNotReady and handleBackendReady again. It asserts that no second window is created and nothing is revealed. A final activate (Dock click) must then open a window.
opens the main window when the backend returns after activation during a restart. The test drives ready, closed, not-ready, then activate while the server is down (no window yet), then ready. It asserts that the window opens.
Fail before, pass after:
# DesktopWindow.ts from upstream/main, new tests in place
$ cd apps/desktop && vp test run src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts
FAIL src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts > DesktopWindow > keeps a closed main window closed when the backend restarts
AssertionError: expected 2 to equal 1
Tests 1 failed | 21 passed (22)
# with this change
$ cd apps/desktop && vp test run src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts
Tests 22 passed (22)
The second test also passes on main. It guards the Dock-click-during-restart case so the fix doesn't regress it.
vp run check:changed upstream/main: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), and test (1 file) all pass.
Real macOS desktop app (dev build with its own managed server, kill -9 of that server): before/after recordings are in this comment. On main the closed window reopens 16 ms after the restarted server is ready; with this PR it stays closed until a Dock click, and a Settings… menu click during the restart opens it once the server is back.
Not checked: a packaged, signed release build, and the startup-failure recovery path on real macOS (unit test only).
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…acOS
Backend readiness fires after every automatic restart, not only at launch.
On macOS the app keeps running after its last window closes, so a crashed
and restarted server created a fresh main window and stole focus from
whatever app was in front. A main window the user closed now stays closed
until they activate the app (Dock click, second launch, menu); activating
during a restart still opens it once the server is back.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized macOS window-lifecycle bug fix that prevents backend readiness from recreating a window the user explicitly closed, while preserving reopening through activation. It includes focused tests for both the closed-window and explicit-activation paths.
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Walkthrough
DesktopWindow tracks main-window closure and deferred reveal requests across backend restarts. Backend readiness creates a window when it is not closed, a reveal is pending, or primary-backend startup is failing. Activation can also recreate a closed window.
Changes: Main window lifecycle
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Summary
Handle closure and window creation across restarts apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts, apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts
DesktopWindow tracks closure and pending reveal requests across restarts. Backend readiness checks those states and primary-backend startup status before creating a window. Activation can recreate a closed window. Tests cover restart, revealing and non-revealing menu actions, and startup failure recovery.
This change keeps a closed macOS main window closed when the local server restarts, and still opens it on Dock activation or a revealing menu action. No outstanding merge-blocking issues were found. Packaged-build verification is noted as unchecked, but that is normal pre-release validation.
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Title check
The title names the main change: a server restart no longer reopens a closed main window on macOS. It is a conventional-commit title with the scope (desktop) and fix type. It matches the raw summary, …
Linked Issues check
Directly linked issue #24101 requires that a main window closed with Cmd+W stays closed when backend readiness repeats after an unexpected server restart. The window must return only after a user acti…
Out of Scope Changes check
The whole-PR diff (merge base 0bc993a to head 44b4836) changes only apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts and apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts.
Changes in DesktopWindow.ts: - Repl…
Description check
The description states the problem (a closed macOS main window reopens after an automatic backend restart), the change (a closed flag, a revealWhenReady flag, and handleBackendReady skipping window cr…
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The title names the main change: a server restart no longer reopens a closed main window on macOS. It is a conventional-commit title with the scope (desktop) and fix type. It matches the raw summary, which says DesktopWindow now tracks a closed main window and skips creation on backend readiness.
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Directly linked issue #24101 requires that a main window closed with Cmd+W stays closed when backend readiness repeats after an unexpected server restart. The window must return only after a user action.
At head 44b4836, DesktopWindow.ts meets this requirement:
The window closed handler sets mainClosed = true.
handleBackendReady creates a window only when !mainClosed || revealWhenReady || recovering. After a normal restart with a closed window, no window is created.
A revealing request with no window during a backend wait sets revealWhenReady = true and returns. The next readiness opens the window. This covers a Dock click or revealing menu action during a restart.
A non-revealing request leaves revealWhenReady false. The window stays closed.
createMain clears mainClosed and revealWhenReady after a window is created. This covers user-initiated creation.
First launch opens the window because mainClosed starts false.
Startup retry opens the window because recovering reads primaryBackendStartup as Failing.
The new tests in DesktopWindow.test.ts cover the closed-window restart case, the revealing and non-revealing menu actions during a restart, the Dock click after a deferred reveal, and startup-failure recovery. The test names in the PR description do not match the current test file. The test behavior is still covered. The PR description also describes an older design in which the menu action cleared mainClosed. That text is stale. It does not change the code result.
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The whole-PR diff (merge base 0bc993a to head 44b4836) changes only apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts and apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts.
Changes in DesktopWindow.ts:
Replaces backendHasStarted and mainClosedDuringStartup with mainClosed and revealWhenReady. These implement #24101.
Adds a SubscriptionRef read of primaryBackendStartup in handleBackendReady. This keeps startup-retry behavior working.
Changes in DesktopWindow.test.ts:
Extends the existing closed-window test with a restart case.
Adds tests for restart, deferred reveal, Dock activation, and startup-failure recovery. These support the same behavior.
No unrelated behavior change is shown. One minor style issue remains. The SubscriptionRef import in both files is placed before Schema and Semaphore, which breaks alphabetical import order. This does not affect behavior.
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The description states the problem (a closed macOS main window reopens after an automatic backend restart), the change (a closed flag, a revealWhenReady flag, and handleBackendReady skipping window creation), the scope (one module plus focused tests, linked to issue 24101), and verification (new test names, a fail-before/pass-after run, check:changed results, and real macOS dev-build recordings). It covers every section of the template. Two items are explicitly not checked: a packaged, signed build and startup-failure recovery on real macOS. Stating these gaps satisfies the template's requirement to say what was not checked. The template's title guidance and the agent-model line are both present. The description is complete enough to pass.
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Main now suppresses reopening only for a window closed during startup.
Fold that and this branch's restart handling into one mainClosed flag, so
a window closed at any time stays closed until activation, and move the
restart case into main's existing table test.
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…tartup failure
The recovery window closes only once a visible main window exists. With
the main window closed, a restart that failed and later became ready kept
the stale recovery window open, because readiness no longer created main.
Create it when readiness follows a startup failure, as main does.
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the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:
Permanent blocker: A real macOS desktop session is required to close the main window while leaving the app running, observe automatic local-server recovery, and test Dock activation during recovery. This VM runs Linux, and the device pool provides mobile simulators rather than macOS desktop access. All requested before/after behavior remains unverified.
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- Line 1168: Update dispatchRendererEvent’s early return for revealing events
with no window while waitingForBackend so a menu request is retained and leads
to the main window opening when the backend recovers. Ensure the state change
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A revealing menu action with no window, sent while the backend restarts,
returned early without recording the request. mainClosed stayed true, so
readiness skipped creating the window and nothing opened. Treat that
request like a Dock click: clear mainClosed so the window opens once the
backend is back. Non-revealing actions still leave a closed window closed.
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Environment: macOS 27.2, Apple Silicon MacBook Pro, vp run dev:desktop with T3CODE_PORT_OFFSET=700 and a fresh --home-dir, so the desktop app manages its own local server exactly as in a release build. Each run closes the main window with its red close button (the app keeps running in the Dock), then crashes the managed server with kill -9 and lets the desktop app restart it. The dark panel behind the window is a live trace: the steps as they run, the dev app's on-screen main windows (CoreGraphics window list), the managed server pid, and the desktop log lines for backend exit, backend ready and main window created.
Only difference from the commits named below: the dev-only openDevTools({ mode: "detach" }) call was commented out for all four runs, so the DevTools window does not cover the recording.
MP4 · Crash 10:04:54.005, T3 Code (Dev) › Settings… 10:04:54, backend ready 10:04:55.236, no window.
MP4 · Crash 10:03:42.491, Settings… 10:03:42, backend ready 10:03:43.629, main window created 10:03:43.644.
The fix for (2) is b4a2b18: a revealing request that arrives with no window while the backend is down now clears mainClosed, as a Dock click does, so readiness opens the window. A non-revealing request still leaves a closed window closed. New test: after a revealing / non-revealing menu action during a restart, a closed main window follows the backend; the revealing case fails on 7e9df2b (expected 1 to equal 2) and passes now. check:changed passes.
Not checked: a packaged, signed release build; the startup-failure recovery path on real macOS (covered by its unit test only).
A revealing menu action during a restart cleared mainClosed, so a Dock click
before the backend was back no longer opened the window. Track the deferred
reveal in its own flag instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
On macOS, T3 Code keeps running in the Dock after you close its window with Cmd+W. If the local server then exits unexpectedly (crash, OOM, kill), it restarts automatically. When it becomes ready again, a new main window opens and takes focus from whatever app is in front. The cause is that backend readiness is reported after every restart, not only at launch, and
handleBackendReadycreates a main window whenever none exists. Expected: a window the user closed stays closed until they ask for it.Reproduction steps and the code path are in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24101.
Change
DesktopWindownow tracks whether the main window was closed:closedhandler sets the flag.activateclears it. This covers Dock clicks, launching the app again, and the menu paths that callactivate.revealWhenReadyflag, so the window opens once the server is back. The closed flag stays set, so a Dock click before then still opens the window right away. Non-revealing actions leave a closed window closed.handleBackendReadystill marks the backend ready, but skips window creation while the flag is set.Effects:
handleBackendReady, so it is unchanged.Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24101
This is one bug in one module,
apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts, plus focused tests. It restores the behavior the suite already expects for closed windows: seedoes not reopen a closed main window for a completed capture.Verification
New tests in the existing
apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts, using itslayerTestharness andit.effect:keeps a closed main window closed when the backend restarts. The test drives backend ready (one window, checking that the first launch still opens it), then fires the window'sclosedevent, thenhandleBackendNotReadyandhandleBackendReadyagain. It asserts that no second window is created and nothing is revealed. A finalactivate(Dock click) must then open a window.opens the main window when the backend returns after activation during a restart. The test drives ready, closed, not-ready, thenactivatewhile the server is down (no window yet), then ready. It asserts that the window opens.Fail before, pass after:
The second test also passes on
main. It guards the Dock-click-during-restart case so the fix doesn't regress it.vp run check:changed upstream/main: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), and test (1 file) all pass.Real macOS desktop app (dev build with its own managed server,
kill -9of that server): before/after recordings are in this comment. On main the closed window reopens 16 ms after the restarted server is ready; with this PR it stays closed until a Dock click, and a Settings… menu click during the restart opens it once the server is back.Not checked: a packaged, signed release build, and the startup-failure recovery path on real macOS (unit test only).
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code (running in T3 Code).
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Fixes #24101