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Problem

Closing the lid all the way sleeps the Mac. suspendForSleep tears down the overlay, the capture stream and the sensor, and wake recovery is what has to bring the session back.

That recovery slept for a full second before its first sensor check:

for _ in 0..<5 {
  do { try await Task.sleep(for: .seconds(1)) } catch { return }
  guard self.resumeAfterWake, !Task.isCancelled else { return }
  if self.sensorAvailable { break }
  self.sensor.reconnect()
}

Opening a lid past the 100 degree baseline takes less than that, and start still has to rebuild the ScreenCaptureKit stream and wait for a first frame on top of it. The reopening animation described in MOTION.md never ran after a full close. Folding on the way down looked correct, which made the effect feel one directional.

A partial tilt that never sleeps the Mac already animated both ways, which is what narrowed this to the wake path.

Changes

Poll the sensor every 50 ms rather than sleeping a fixed second first. The five second ceiling is unchanged (100 iterations), and the connection is still retried once per second instead of on every pass.

Seed the motion filter at the closure implied by the current angle in setEnabled. reset leaves displayed at zero, so a session restarting while the lid was mid-open animated into the fold before unwinding out of it. Seeding at target makes the first frame match the physical angle, and the filter unwinds from there as the lid keeps opening. For a normal turn on with the lid open, target is zero and behavior is unchanged.

MOTION.md is updated in the motion timing and recovery sections to match.

Testing

Built with make build on an M4 MacBook Pro, macOS 26.6.2, and exercised by closing the lid fully, waiting for sleep, and reopening. The desktop now unfolds on the way up instead of appearing already restored. Partial tilts behave as before.

I could not run npm run check locally: the swift-format shipped with the Command Line Tools cannot read this repo's configuration schema, so the CI lint is the authority on formatting here.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Motion filtering now starts from the lid’s current partially closed position, preventing an unwanted animation into that fold.
    • Wake recovery checks sensor availability more frequently and resumes motion earlier after sleep.
    • Sensor reconnection during wake recovery is more reliable, supporting smoother reopening animations.
  • Performance

    • Reused rendering resources improve responsiveness when changing display settings or Space configurations.

A full close sleeps the Mac, so suspendForSleep tears down the overlay,
the capture stream and the sensor. Wake recovery then slept a full second
before its first sensor check, and the lid is usually open past the
baseline by the time start finishes. The reopening animation never ran.

Poll the sensor every 50 ms instead, keeping the five second ceiling and
retrying the connection once per second.

Seed the motion filter at the closure implied by the current angle when
the effect is enabled. Restarting mid-open left displayed at zero, so the
filter animated into the fold while the user was opening the lid rather
than unwinding out of it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The motion filter initializes from the current lid angle. Wake recovery polls the sensor every 50 ms for up to five seconds. DesktopRenderer caches render pipelines per Metal device.

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Motion runtime updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Motion filter initialization
Sources/LidMotion.swift, MOTION.md
setEnabled synchronizes displayed with the recalculated target. The documentation describes initialization from the current lid angle.
Wake sensor polling
Sources/LiveDesktop.swift, MOTION.md
Wake recovery checks immediately, polls every 50 ms for up to 100 attempts, and reconnects the sensor every 20th attempt.
Metal pipeline caching
Sources/DesktopRenderer.swift, MOTION.md
DesktopRenderer caches render pipelines per Metal device and reuses them across wake, display, and Space changes. The documentation describes this reuse.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: pulkitxm

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After wake, rendering can start from stale sensor state and then fail when the sensor reports unavailable. Multi-device transitions also unnecessarily recompile pipelines. Resolve these before merging to preserve reliable wake recovery.

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reesoousa and others added 2 commits September 11, 2026 12:36
Creating a DesktopRenderer compiled the fold shader from source every
time, and a session starts more often than it looks: after sleep, after a
display change, after a space change. The wake path is the one that
matters, because the lid is already moving there and every millisecond
spent compiling is animation the user does not get to see.

Cache the compiled pipeline state for the lifetime of the process, keyed
on the device so a different one still builds its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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434-434: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for a fresh sensor result after wake.

suspendForSleep() leaves sensorAvailable set to true, while LidSensor.reconnect() runs asynchronously. Attempt 0 can therefore pass line 434 before disconnect and reconnect updates reach LiveDesktop. start() can call SCStream.startCapture() with stale availability. The later unavailable update stops startup and reports the sensor-drop error. Clear or version sensorAvailable before reconnect, or require a post-reconnect availability update. LidSensor.stop() and disconnect() do not provide this guarantee.

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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` at line 434, Update the wake/reconnect flow around
sensorAvailable and start() so startup cannot proceed using the pre-sleep
availability value. Clear or version the state before LidSensor.reconnect(), or
otherwise require a fresh post-reconnect availability update before allowing
SCStream.startCapture(); preserve the existing unavailable-sensor handling.
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In `@Sources/DesktopRenderer.swift`:
- Line 66: Update cachedPipeline to store render pipeline states per MTLDevice
identity rather than a single entry, and protect dictionary access and updates
with pipelineLock. Ensure renderers reuse the cached state for their device
without replacing entries belonging to other devices.

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- Line 434: Update the wake/reconnect flow around sensorAvailable and start() so
startup cannot proceed using the pre-sleep availability value. Clear or version
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private static let pipelineLock = NSLock()
private static var cachedPipeline: (device: MTLDevice, state: MTLRenderPipelineState)?

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Store a cache entry for each Metal device.

Line 66 defines one cache slot. A pipeline for device B replaces the pipeline for device A. A later renderer for device A then recompiles the pipeline. Use a dictionary keyed by device identity while holding pipelineLock.

Proposed fix
-  private static var cachedPipeline: (device: MTLDevice, state: MTLRenderPipelineState)?
+  private static var cachedPipelines = [
+    ObjectIdentifier: (device: MTLDevice, state: MTLRenderPipelineState)
+  ]()

   private static func foldPipeline(device: MTLDevice, resources: Bundle) throws
     -> MTLRenderPipelineState
   {
     pipelineLock.lock()
     defer { pipelineLock.unlock() }
-    if let cached = cachedPipeline, cached.device === device { return cached.state }
+    let key = ObjectIdentifier(device)
+    if let cached = cachedPipelines[key] { return cached.state }
     // Create pipeline state.
-    cachedPipeline = (device, state)
+    cachedPipelines[key] = (device, state)
     return state
   }
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In `@Sources/DesktopRenderer.swift` at line 66, Update cachedPipeline to store
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Reviewed this closely. The diagnosis is right and it is not an obvious one, so thank you for narrowing it the way you did.

I pulled LidMotion from main and from this branch into a harness and replayed a session starting at 40 degrees with a baseline of 100, sampled at 60 Hz. The direction clamp does exactly what you describe:

lid OPENING from 40 at 90 deg/s
  main: 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 ... 0.02    (fold never appears, no reopening animation)
  PR  : 0.65 0.64 0.63 0.61 ... 0.30    (unwinds smoothly)

lid OPENING from 40 at 20 deg/s
  main: 0.02 0.11 0.11 0.11 ... 0.11    (stuck at an 11% fold for seconds)
  PR  : 0.65 0.65 0.64 ... 0.57

The slow-open case is a second symptom you did not mention. Starting with the lid at 100 or 110 gives 0.00 on both versions, so the seed does not regress a normal turn on.

Two things before this lands.

1. The loop can break on a stale reading and kill its own session.

resumeFromSleep calls sensor.reconnect(), which is queue.async { disconnect(); connect() }, and disconnect() fires onAngle(nil). The new loop reads sensorAvailable at attempt 0 with no delay, before that teardown has published anything.

The case that bites is display sleep rather than system sleep. screensDidSleep fires suspendForSleep, whose sensor.stop() is also queued and may not have run. A trackpad nudge a few hundred ms later fires screensDidWake, attempt 0 breaks on a stale true, start() sets isStarting = true, and the queued onAngle(nil) then lands on the !update.available branch and calls stop(). The user gets a spurious "The lid sensor stopped responding" banner and a dropped fold. The old one second first sleep absorbed this.

Costs you 50 ms instead of 0 ms against your goal:

for attempt in 0..<100 {
  do { try await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(50)) } catch { return }
  guard self.resumeAfterWake, !Task.isCancelled else { return }
  if self.sensorAvailable { break }
  if attempt > 0, attempt.isMultiple(of: 20) { self.sensor.reconnect() }
}

2. Please drop bc2f34c, the pipeline cache.

I timed exactly what DesktopRenderer.init does, re-reading Fold.metal, makeLibrary(source:), makeRenderPipelineState:

re-reading the file each time, within one process:
  1.52 ms, 0.14 ms, 0.10 ms, 0.08 ms, 0.09 ms, 0.08 ms, 0.06 ms, 0.07 ms
second, fresh process:
  1.27 ms, 0.11 ms, 0.09 ms, 0.07 ms, 0.07 ms, 0.06 ms, 0.05 ms, 0.05 ms
a deliberately modified source, first ever compile: 72.74 ms
that same modified source in the next process:       0.05 ms

Metal already keeps a source-keyed shader cache that persists across processes. The real cost is a one-time hit the first time that exact shader source is ever compiled on the machine, and your cache is empty at that point so it does not help there either. Every session restart after that, including the wake path, is about 0.1 ms. MOTION.md is a document full of measured numbers, so I would rather not add a sentence claiming a saving three orders of magnitude larger than the real one.

I have merged current main into the branch so it is no longer conflicting, resolving the DesktopRenderer init collision with #18's extend by keeping both sides. If you drop the cache commit that collision goes away entirely.

Two smaller notes, take or leave. Reconnects land at attempts 20/40/60/80, so 4 retries rather than the previous 5. And a session seeded at 0.65 presents its first frame at full opacity, since blend = min(progress / 0.025, 1) saturates immediately, so MOTION.md's existing sentence about the first 2.5 percent blending in is now only true for sessions that start flat.

On checks: the workflow here has not actually run, it is sitting behind the first-time contributor approval gate, so CI has not been the authority on this branch. I ran the full suite locally against the merged head and it all passes, make build with zero warnings, npm run check, npm run check:native, and swift-format lint --strict. Your formatting is fine, that was a local toolchain issue.

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@reesoousa any update?

@pulkitxm pulkitxm closed this Sep 24, 2026
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