diff --git a/electron/about.test.ts b/electron/about.test.ts
index 79fdea4d4..514e34bd2 100644
--- a/electron/about.test.ts
+++ b/electron/about.test.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,24 @@ describe("PRODUCT_NAME", () => {
 
 	it("matches the display name macOS reads out of Info.plist", () => {
 		expect(key("CFBundleDisplayName")).toBe(PRODUCT_NAME);
-		expect(key("CFBundleName")).toBe(PRODUCT_NAME);
+	});
+
+	/*
+	 * CFBundleName must NOT be set, and this is the assertion that says why.
+	 *
+	 * Electron resolves its helper apps from CFBundleName, and electron-builder names
+	 * them after `productName` — so they ship as "Openscreen Helper.app". Setting
+	 * CFBundleName to "RoleModel Studio" sent Electron looking for "RoleModel Studio
+	 * Helper.app", which does not exist, and the app aborted before drawing a window:
+	 *
+	 *   FATAL:electron_main_delegate_mac.mm:65] Unable to find helper app
+	 *
+	 * That is what made v0.0.1 unopenable. Nothing is lost by leaving it unset: the
+	 * menu bar reads PRODUCT_NAME because main.ts calls app.setName at module scope,
+	 * and everything a person actually reads comes from CFBundleDisplayName above.
+	 */
+	it("leaves CFBundleName unset, so Electron can still find its helper apps", () => {
+		expect(key("CFBundleName")).toBeUndefined();
 	});
 
 	it("leaves the bundle on disk named upstream's, which the cask and the shim resolve", () => {
diff --git a/electron/windows.ts b/electron/windows.ts
index 1fbd686b0..611f86775 100644
--- a/electron/windows.ts
+++ b/electron/windows.ts
@@ -545,8 +545,25 @@ export function createStudioWindow(url: string): BrowserWindow {
 		const inset = process.platform === "darwin" ? "72px" : "0px";
 		win.webContents
 			.insertCSS(
-				`html, body { background: #141415 !important; }
-				 .op-page__main-header { -webkit-app-region: drag; }
+				/*
+				 * No `html, body { background: … !important }` here.
+				 *
+				 * It was belt-and-braces against a white flash, and the window's own
+				 * `backgroundColor: "#141415"` above already does that — it is painted
+				 * before the page exists, which is earlier than any injected rule can
+				 * manage anyway.
+				 *
+				 * What it also did was reset the page's background-image. `background`
+				 * is a shorthand, so with !important it wiped the Studio's grid and any
+				 * future page texture, and nothing in a stylesheet can outrank it.
+				 * Injected on dom-ready, it landed after first paint: the grid appeared
+				 * and then vanished, which reads as the page fighting itself. Two days
+				 * were spent looking for the override inside the page, where it was not.
+				 *
+				 * The drag region below is the only thing that genuinely belongs to the
+				 * host: it is about the window frame, and it is inert in a browser.
+				 */
+				`.op-page__main-header { -webkit-app-region: drag; }
 				 .op-page__main-header button,
 				 .op-page__main-header a,
 				 .op-page__main-header input { -webkit-app-region: no-drag; }