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macOS shows its recording indicator for as long as a capture stream runs and no app can suppress it, so the only way to keep it dark while the lid sits still is to not be capturing. Pause capture at rest, on by default, stops the stream three seconds after the fold rests and builds a new one when the next fold begins. The indicator then tracks lid movement instead of staying lit for a whole session. The renderer keeps its last frame across the pause and the content filter and configuration are cached, so a fold starts on retained content while the new stream spins up rather than waiting on capture. Fade the overlay in over 160 ms when a session starts with the fold already underway. The existing entry blend is derived from progress alone, so it only covers a fold that grows from zero; past the 2.5 percent threshold it saturates at one and the overlay appears opaque and folded over a desktop that was flat a frame earlier. The shader takes the lower of the two values, so the fade never shows more than progress alone would allow, and a close from rest starts no entry fade at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe renderer adds a 160 ms entry fade. LiveDesktop can pause screen capture three seconds after rest and rebuild it when rendering resumes. The setting is persisted and exposed in Controls. Documentation describes the new capture behavior. ChangesMotion and capture lifecycle
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant LiveDesktop
participant ScreenFrames
participant SCStream
LiveDesktop->>LiveDesktop: Schedule idle suspension after rest
LiveDesktop->>ScreenFrames: Detach renderer and failure handler
LiveDesktop->>SCStream: Stop stream and remove output
LiveDesktop->>LiveDesktop: Resume capture before rendering
LiveDesktop->>ScreenFrames: Create new frame output
LiveDesktop->>SCStream: Start capture with cached configuration
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Two pieces of the resume path were landing exactly where the effect starts, and both were visible as a stutter whenever the lid had been still long enough to suspend. The resume awaited refreshIncludedWindows, which enumerates shareable content over XPC and then updates the content filter. Both are expensive. Refresh before suspending instead, where there is time to spare, and cache the resulting filter for the next resume. LiveDesktop is MainActor isolated, so SCStream init and addStreamOutput ran on the main thread. The display link that drives drawing is scheduled on the main run loop, so that setup stole frames from the first moments of the fold. Move it into a nonisolated async helper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The motivation here is right and I appreciate that you refused to work around the indicator and stopped capturing instead. The entry fade is correct too, I verified it numerically: with a baseline of 100, a session starting past roughly 30 degrees of closure saturates
Two blockers. 1. A fold that ends before the resume finishes leaves the stream running forever. Lid rests three seconds, Net result: the stream stays live and the indicator stays lit until the next full fold-and-rest cycle, which is exactly the thing the feature exists to prevent. 2. The staleness cost is unbounded, not three seconds. The description says the first moments of a fold can show content "up to three seconds stale". Three seconds is the idle delay before suspending, not a bound on staleness. Once suspended, the retained It is worse across a Space change: Either mitigate it, resuming on the first sub-degree sensor movement rather than on Smaller things.
I have merged current SettingsRow(
"pause.circle.fill", tint: .purple, title: "Pause capture at rest",
subtitle: "Only capture while the lid folds"
) {
Toggle(
"Pause capture at rest",
isOn: Binding(
get: { desktop.pauseCaptureAtRest }, set: { desktop.setPauseCaptureAtRest($0) })
)
.toggleStyle(.switch)
.controlSize(.small)
.labelsHidden()
.help("Capture only while the lid folds, so the recording indicator stays off at rest.")
}The Also the description is now stale against Checks all pass locally on your head: |
suspendCapture left the outgoing ScreenFrames wired to the renderer and to the failure handler, and unlike a full stop it does not change the session identifier. Stopping the stream delivers didStopWithError to that output, whose onFailure guard only checks the session, so a suspend tore down the live session and surfaced an error. A stream that had not finished stopping also kept calling receive on the renderer while its replacement was already delivering. Detach renderer and onFailure before stopping, and on the resume path that abandons a stream it just started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 26: Update the README capture-pausing description to state that pausing
while the lid rests is optional and controlled by the persisted Settings toggle;
qualify the recording-indicator behavior accordingly while retaining the
explanation that the indicator is system-drawn and cannot be hidden by an app.
In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift`:
- Line 429: Update the suspension/resumption flow around resumeCapture() and
beginRendering() to track refresh requests made while suspended, refresh
captureFilter before creating the stream when needed, and prevent presenting
arbitrarily old retained frames by enforcing a maximum retained-frame age or
waiting for a fresh frame.
- Line 455: Update the idle refresh call to ensure failures from
refreshIncludedWindows() do not stop or disable the active capture session.
Preserve the existing filter and allow the next idle refresh or resume to retry
normally.
- Line 454: Update the idle operation around refreshIncludedWindows so idleTask
remains cancellable until the entire operation settles, allowing
beginRendering() to cancel an in-flight refresh. Move idleTask clearing to
completion and check for cancellation after each await before enumerating
content or updating the filter.
- Around line 456-457: Update the post-refresh guard in the relevant LiveDesktop
flow to require pauseCaptureAtRest, and pass the same setting check into
suspendCapture(). Preserve the existing session, active-state, and closing
checks so capture is suspended only when pauseCaptureAtRest remains enabled
after refresh.
- Line 514: After clearing captureSuspended in the resume flow, schedule idle
suspension when motion.isClosing is false and the fold has returned to rest;
reuse the existing suspension mechanism so the replacement stream cannot run
indefinitely. Anchor the change to the captureSuspended assignment and the
surrounding startStream() completion path.
- Around line 465-466: Update ScreenFrames callback handling in suspendCapture()
and the associated renderer/onFailure access paths to serialize callback
execution with detachment, preventing queued callbacks from running after
properties are cleared. Ensure failure callbacks validate they belong to the
current ScreenFrames instance before stopping the session, so callbacks from a
prior stream cannot affect a replacement after resumeCapture().
- Line 482: Update startStream cleanup so every abandoned stream removes its
registered output: when startCapture() throws, stop the stream and call
removeStreamOutput, and apply the same cleanup when the resume session-mismatch
guard stops the stream. Preserve rethrow behavior after cleanup.
- Around line 516-520: Update the resumeCapture() error handling for
SCStreamError.Code.userDeclined to set needsPermission and use the same
permission-specific recovery message as start(), while preserving the existing
session stop and generic handling for other errors.
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| Hinge pauses capture while the lid rests, so the macOS recording indicator only lights up while your desktop is actually folding. That indicator is drawn by the system and no app can hide it. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document that capture pausing is optional.
The persisted Settings toggle can disable pausing, so the unconditional sentence can mislead users about the recording indicator.
Proposed wording
-Hinge pauses capture while the lid rests, so the macOS recording indicator only lights up while your desktop is actually folding.
+By default, Hinge pauses capture while the lid rests, so the macOS recording indicator only lights up while your desktop is actually folding. You can disable this behavior in Settings.📝 Committable suggestion
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| Hinge pauses capture while the lid rests, so the macOS recording indicator only lights up while your desktop is actually folding. That indicator is drawn by the system and no app can hide it. | |
| By default, Hinge pauses capture while the lid rests, so the macOS recording indicator only lights up while your desktop is actually folding. You can disable this behavior in Settings. That indicator is drawn by the system and no app can hide it. |
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In `@README.md` at line 26, Update the README capture-pausing description to state
that pausing while the lid rests is optional and controlled by the persisted
Settings toggle; qualify the recording-indicator behavior accordingly while
retaining the explanation that the indicator is system-drawn and cannot be
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| guard isActive, motion.isClosing else { return } | ||
| idleTask?.cancel() | ||
| idleTask = nil | ||
| resumeCapture() |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not resume with unbounded stale capture state.
beginRendering() resumes drawing immediately, while resumeCapture() starts asynchronously. The renderer can therefore show a retained frame from an arbitrarily old Space.
Setting stream to nil also causes window-refresh requests during suspension to return early. The resumed stream then uses the stale captureFilter.
Track pending refresh requests. Refresh the filter before stream creation when necessary. Also limit retained-frame age or wait for a fresh frame before presenting it.
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` at line 429, Update the suspension/resumption flow
around resumeCapture() and beginRendering() to track refresh requests made while
suspended, refresh captureFilter before creating the stream when needed, and
prevent presenting arbitrarily old retained frames by enforcing a maximum
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| guard let self, !Task.isCancelled, self.session == idleSession, self.isActive, | ||
| !self.motion.isClosing | ||
| else { return } | ||
| self.idleTask = nil |
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Keep the idle task cancellable across the refresh.
This line clears idleTask before refreshIncludedWindows() awaits. If folding begins during that operation, beginRendering() cannot cancel the in-flight refresh.
The refresh can then enumerate content or update the filter during the first frames of the fold. Clear idleTask only after the complete idle operation settles, and check cancellation after each await.
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` at line 454, Update the idle operation around
refreshIncludedWindows so idleTask remains cancellable until the entire
operation settles, allowing beginRendering() to cancel an in-flight refresh.
Move idleTask clearing to completion and check for cancellation after each await
before enumerating content or updating the filter.
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| !self.motion.isClosing | ||
| else { return } | ||
| self.idleTask = nil | ||
| await self.refreshIncludedWindows() |
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Do not make idle maintenance failures fatal.
refreshIncludedWindows() catches content-enumeration and filter-update errors by calling stop(). A transient failure during this new idle path therefore disables an otherwise working session.
Let the idle refresh fail without stopping capture. Preserve the existing filter and retry on the next refresh or resume.
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` at line 455, Update the idle refresh call to
ensure failures from refreshIncludedWindows() do not stop or disable the active
capture session. Preserve the existing filter and allow the next idle refresh or
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| guard self.session == idleSession, self.isActive, !self.motion.isClosing else { return } | ||
| self.suspendCapture() |
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Recheck the setting before suspension.
If the user disables pauseCaptureAtRest while refreshIncludedWindows() is awaiting, cancellation does not guarantee that the framework operation stops. These guards do not recheck the setting, so the task can suspend capture after the toggle is off.
Add pauseCaptureAtRest to both the post-refresh guard and suspendCapture().
Proposed guard changes
-guard self.session == idleSession, self.isActive, !self.motion.isClosing else { return }
+guard self.session == idleSession, self.isActive, self.pauseCaptureAtRest,
+ !self.motion.isClosing
+else { return }
-guard isActive, !captureSuspended, let stream else { return }
+guard pauseCaptureAtRest, isActive, !captureSuspended, let stream else { return }Also applies to: 462-462
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` around lines 456 - 457, Update the post-refresh
guard in the relevant LiveDesktop flow to require pauseCaptureAtRest, and pass
the same setting check into suspendCapture(). Preserve the existing session,
active-state, and closing checks so capture is suspended only when
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| output?.renderer = nil | ||
| output?.onFailure = nil |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Serialize ScreenFrames callback handling with detachment.
ScreenFrames reads renderer and onFailure on the capture queue, while suspendCapture() clears them on the main actor. These accesses are unsynchronized. A callback can read the old renderer before the clear and call receive(_:) after suspension. A failure callback can pass the unchanged session check after resumeCapture() installs a replacement stream and call stop() on it.
Serialize callback execution with property detachment. Also validate that a failure callback belongs to the current ScreenFrames instance before stopping the session; locking only a copied property does not prevent an already queued callback from acting later.
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` around lines 465 - 466, Update ScreenFrames
callback handling in suspendCapture() and the associated renderer/onFailure
access paths to serialize callback execution with detachment, preventing queued
callbacks from running after properties are cleared. Ensure failure callbacks
validate they belong to the current ScreenFrames instance before stopping the
session, so callbacks from a prior stream cannot affect a replacement after
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| try stream.addStreamOutput( | ||
| output, type: .screen, | ||
| sampleHandlerQueue: DispatchQueue(label: "hinge.capture", qos: .userInteractive)) | ||
| try await stream.startCapture() |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove output from every abandoned stream.
If startCapture() throws, startStream() rethrows after registering output. If the resume session-mismatch guard runs, it stops the stream but does not remove output. These paths can retain ScreenFrames and allow queued callbacks. Stop the stream and call removeStreamOutput in both cleanup paths.
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` at line 482, Update startStream cleanup so every
abandoned stream removes its registered output: when startCapture() throws, stop
the stream and call removeStreamOutput, and apply the same cleanup when the
resume session-mismatch guard stops the stream. Preserve rethrow behavior after
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| } | ||
| self.frames = output | ||
| self.stream = stream | ||
| self.captureSuspended = false |
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Reschedule suspension after resume completes at rest.
The fold can return to rest while startStream() is awaiting. restOverlay() cannot schedule suspension then because captureSuspended is still true and stream is nil.
After this line clears the suspended state, schedule idle suspension when motion.isClosing is false. Otherwise, the replacement stream can run indefinitely.
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self.captureSuspended = false
+if !self.motion.isClosing {
+ self.scheduleIdleSuspend()
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| self.captureSuspended = false | |
| self.captureSuspended = false | |
| if !self.motion.isClosing { | |
| self.scheduleIdleSuspend() | |
| } |
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the resume flow, schedule idle suspension when motion.isClosing is false and the
fold has returned to rest; reuse the existing suspension mechanism so the
replacement stream cannot run indefinitely. Anchor the change to the
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| self.resumeTask = nil | ||
| guard self.session == resumeSession, self.isActive else { return } | ||
| self.stop() | ||
| self.error = "Could not resume desktop capture: \(error.localizedDescription)" | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Route SCStreamError.Code.userDeclined through the existing permission recovery state. resumeCapture() propagates SCStream.startCapture() failures to a catch block that only stops the session and sets a generic error. It does not set needsPermission, so MainView does not show the existing Open Settings action. When Screen Recording access is denied during resume, set needsPermission and use the same permission-specific recovery message as start().
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In `@Sources/LiveDesktop.swift` around lines 516 - 520, Update the resumeCapture()
error handling for SCStreamError.Code.userDeclined to set needsPermission and
use the same permission-specific recovery message as start(), while preserving
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Why
macOS shows its screen recording indicator for as long as a capture stream runs, and an app cannot suppress it. Hinge currently holds one stream open for the entire session, so the indicator stays lit all day. For anyone who shares their screen in meetings, an always-on recording indicator is noise that hides the signal.
The indicator is a privacy protection and should not be worked around. The only honest fix is to not be capturing when there is nothing to capture for.
What
A new Pause capture at rest setting, on by default. The stream stops three seconds after the fold returns to rest and a new one is built when the next fold begins, so the indicator tracks lid movement. Turning it off keeps one stream open for the whole session, which is today's behavior.
SCStreamis not restartable, so a resume builds a new one. To keep that off the critical path:SCShareableContentenumeration and the blur warm upThe cost is that the first moments of a fold can show content up to three seconds stale, while already blurring and folding.
The entry fade
Testing the above surfaced a separate visible hitch, which is why it rides along here.
The entry blend at
DesktopRendereris derived from progress alone:That covers a fold growing from zero. It cannot cover a session that starts with the fold already underway, which is what wake recovery does: progress is already past 2.5 percent on the first drawn frame, the blend saturates at one, and the overlay appears opaque and folded over a desktop that was flat one frame earlier. The step in opacity reads as a hitch exactly where the reopening animation starts.
Those sessions now also fade in over 160 ms of wall clock. The shader takes the lower of the two values, so the entry fade never shows more than the progress blend would allow, and a close from rest starts no entry fade at all and is bit for bit unaffected.
Testing
Built with
make buildon an M4 MacBook Pro, macOS 26.6.2, and exercised by folding, resting past the idle window, and folding again, plus full close and reopen for the entry fade. The indicator goes dark while the lid rests and returns with the next fold.I could not run
npm run checklocally: theswift-formatshipped with the Command Line Tools cannot read this repo's configuration schema, so CI lint is the authority on formatting here.Independent of #21 and touches different code; either can land first.
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