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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLinux capture now tracks wall-clock duration, preserves sparse wakeup timing, and exposes the recorded content rectangle. Cursor samples use that rectangle for translation, dimensions, and visibility. Tests and documentation cover pause handling, crop tracking, and cursor behavior. ChangesLinux capture timing and cursor crop normalization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Portal
participant Capture
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participant CursorOverlay
Portal->>Capture: provide pointer position and crop metadata
Capture->>emit_sample: provide content rectangle
emit_sample->>CursorOverlay: emit translated coordinates and visibility
CursorOverlay->>CursorOverlay: normalize against content dimensions
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs`:
- Line 1359: Add coverage to the test named
the_content_rect_prefers_the_encoder_once_it_has_started by creating a started
Capture with a non-zero crop, then assert that content_rect returns the encoder
content rectangle rather than the negotiated stream size. Keep the existing
None-input case intact and place the new behavior test in the same package.
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pipeWireCursorAccumulator.ts to restore the established “ponytail:” marker at
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Address the CodeRabbit review on getopenscreen#514: - `the_content_rect_prefers_the_encoder_once_it_has_started` only exercised the cursor-only fallthrough. Stage a window frame on a started Capture and assert content_rect returns the window rect, not the negotiated stream size — the branch the fix turns on. - Restore the `ponytail:` marker on the reworked cursor-normalisation comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@bosskopp — I've updated this branch as a maintainer (Linux/Wayland code owner) to get it mergeable. Heads-up since it was a force-push (the branch was 310 commits behind and conflicting): if you have local work here, What I changed: Rebased onto current
Addressed the CodeRabbit review (one follow-up commit, authored by me):
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Reviewed as Linux/Wayland code owner. Fix is correct and now verified — reproduced the window-capture cursor offset on GNOME/Wayland/mutter and confirmed it's resolved with this build; content_rect is the single source of truth for both the encoded pixels and the cursor telemetry, and the strengthened test pins the encoder-preferred branch. cargo test 77/1. Thanks @bosskopp.
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@EtienneLescot — ready for your review whenever you have a moment. The only thing that needs your eyes is the docs file: Status:
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#512 has landed on main, so this one is ready to move. Two things for the rebase:
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…nitor mutter never renegotiates the format for a window stream: it pins the stream to the window's monitor and carves the window out through SPA_META_VideoCrop, which can move on any buffer as the window does. The encoder already reads through that rect, so the file holds the window -- but the portal reports the pointer in STREAM pixels, measured from the monitor's corner, and emit_sample normalised it against the negotiated format. A monitor-relative position divided by monitor dimensions, then painted onto window-sized footage: wrong origin and wrong scale, in every window recording, from the first frame. A 640x480 window at (100, 50) on 1920x1080 put a pointer at the window's centre at 0.219, 0.269. Capture now remembers the rect it actually read -- read_origin at the committed size, so it follows a window that moves and keeps the clamp that stops a shrunken window reading past the buffer -- and content_rect() is the one place that answers "what does the file show". emit_sample takes the origin off the position and reports that rect's dimensions, so the accumulator's x/width lands in the space the compositor assumes. `visible` moves with it. It was tested against the monitor, so a pointer that had left the recorded window still reported visible: true. Full-screen capture is byte-identical: no crop means the content rect is the stream. A cursor-only session opens no encoder and keeps normalising against the stream, which is right -- its video comes from Electron. Not getopenscreen#511. That one is temporal (the video time-compresses under frame drops while the cursor keeps wall-clock time, so the error grows across the take); this one is spatial and constant. They stack.
Address the CodeRabbit review on getopenscreen#514: - `the_content_rect_prefers_the_encoder_once_it_has_started` only exercised the cursor-only fallthrough. Stage a window frame on a started Capture and assert content_rect returns the window rect, not the negotiated stream size — the branch the fix turns on. - Restore the `ponytail:` marker on the reworked cursor-normalisation comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`stage()` assigned `self.content` inside the CPU/shm branch only, after the zero-copy path had already returned. A window recorded through dmabuf therefore kept the rect `start()` opened with — origin (0, 0) at the committed size — so `content_rect()` handed `emit_sample` the right dimensions with the wrong origin, and the pointer was reported without the crop offset taken off. Half of issue getopenscreen#513 survived on what is the default route whenever dmabuf import is available (`prefer_dmabuf`, main.rs). Compute the read origin once, before the paths diverge, and record the content rect there. Both branches already read from that same origin, so this is also what makes `content_rect` the single answer to "what does the file show" rather than an answer one path happens to write. No unit test: the dmabuf staging path needs a real GPU buffer, `DmabufDesc` is not constructible outside `shim`, and nothing else in the crate covers it either. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LfvBTDsh7GhP3CXSEff33G
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@bosskopp @EtienneLescot — rebased onto current Rebase. #512 landed and rewrote the same two files, which made this New commit: So a window staged through dmabuf kept the rect Scope: −11/+18 in Verification (Arch/GNOME/Wayland, mutter, AMD/VAAPI):
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Approving as Linux/Wayland code owner. Rebased onto current main after #512 landed (the only conflict was this PR's content_rect() accessor meeting #512's rewritten advance() doc comment — both kept, no logic touched), plus one fix I authored: stage() assigned self.content inside the CPU/shm branch only, after the dmabuf path had already returned, so a window staged through dmabuf kept the rect start() opened with. The read origin is now computed once, before the paths diverge.
Verified on Arch/GNOME/Wayland (mutter, AMD/VAAPI): cargo test in electron/native/pipewire-capture 80 pass / 0 fail / 1 ignored, clippy clean, and a window recording with dmabuf-import available: true reported cursor samples at the committed window size (676x568) rather than the 1920x1080 stream, 427/427 visible samples inside the window. Noted in the thread that mutter gave cropX/cropY = (0,0) there, so the origin half was not exercised — the commit matters for a non-zero crop origin and for a window that moves mid-recording.
Address the CodeRabbit review on #514: - `the_content_rect_prefers_the_encoder_once_it_has_started` only exercised the cursor-only fallthrough. Stage a window frame on a started Capture and assert content_rect returns the window rect, not the negotiated stream size — the branch the fix turns on. - Restore the `ponytail:` marker on the reworked cursor-normalisation comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Recording a window on Linux drew the cursor overlay in the wrong place for the whole take — a constant offset, present from the first frame, visible in a three-second clip. Full-screen capture was unaffected.
mutter never renegotiates the format for a window stream. It pins the stream to the window's monitor and carves the window out through
SPA_META_VideoCrop, which can move on any buffer as the window does. The encoder already reads through that rect (Capture::read_origin), so the MP4 holds the window — but the portal reports the pointer in stream pixels, measured from the monitor's corner, andemit_samplenormalised it against the negotiated format. A monitor-relative position divided by monitor dimensions, painted onto window-sized footage: wrong origin and wrong scale. For a 640×480 window at (100, 50) on a 1920×1080 monitor, a pointer at the window's centre serialised as0.219, 0.269instead of0.5, 0.5.Capturenow remembers the rect it actually read —read_originat the committed size, so it follows a window that moves and keeps the clamp that stops a shrunken window reading past the buffer — andcontent_rect()is the single place that answers "what does the file show".emit_samplesubtracts that origin and reports that rect's dimensions, so the accumulator'sx / widthlands in the spaceframe_geometry.rsalready assumes.visiblemoves with it: it was tested against the monitor, so a pointer that had left the recorded window still reportedvisible: true.Full-screen capture is byte-identical — no crop means the content rect is the stream. A cursor-only session opens no encoder and keeps normalising against the stream, which is correct there: its video comes from Electron, not from the helper.
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electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/capture.rsCapture::contenttracked instage();content_rect()accessorelectron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rscontent_rect()helper;emit_samplemeasures against the content rectelectron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/pipeWireCursorAccumulator.tscx = x / widthwas already righttechnical-documentation/architecture/recording.mdRelated issue
Fixes #513
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Not included — the defect is a cursor-position offset in a screen recording, and a still frame cannot show where the pointer actually was. The numeric case in the summary (
0.219, 0.269vs0.5, 0.5) is what the tests pin instead.Testing
cargo testinelectron/native/pipewire-capture— 69 pass (63 before, 6 new). Note that CI does not build or test this crate (the onlycargojob inci.ymlis the macOS compositor), so this is the only automated signal on it.New tests:
capture::tests::the_content_rect_is_the_window_the_file_shows— initial rect, a window that moves mid-take, and the clamped out-of-buffer origin.cursor_sample_tests::a_window_capture_reports_coordinates_inside_the_window— the bug itself.cursor_sample_tests::a_full_screen_capture_reports_stream_coordinates— the no-regression case.cursor_sample_tests::a_pointer_outside_the_window_is_reported_invisible— both directions (past the far edge, and negative).cursor_sample_tests::nothing_is_emitted_before_the_format_is_knowncursor_sample_tests::the_content_rect_prefers_the_encoder_once_it_has_startedAlso run:
cargo clippy --all-targets— no new warnings (the 6 existing ones are pre-existing dead-code notes).npx tsc --noEmitandnpx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit— clean.npm run lint— 14 warnings, identical to a cleanmain.npm run test— 2045 pass / 40 fail, identical counts to a cleanmain(pre-existing jsdomlocalStoragesetup failures insrc/components/**, unrelated to this change; verified by stashing and re-running).node scripts/check-docs.mjs— OK (31 files).npm run build:native:linux— the release helper builds and its startup probe reports{"cursorMetadataSupported":true,"pipewireVersion":"1.0.5","event":"ready"}.Manual verification on Ubuntu / GNOME / Wayland (mutter, AMD): the v1.10.0 release AppImage was extracted and run against the rebuilt helper via
OPENSCREEN_LINUX_CURSOR_HELPER_EXE, recording a window. The cursor lands where the pointer actually was. Full-screen recording re-checked for regressions.Summary by CodeRabbit
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