fix(server): restore Windows file reveal and browser launches - #10387
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Would Approve Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The PR makes a focused Windows-only process-launch correction and preserves existing behavior for WSL, macOS, Linux, and non-PowerShell editors. Its real-spawn smoke tests verify both affected launch paths without introducing schema, infrastructure, or sensitive-data changes. Not approved because:
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBrowser and editor launches now use non-detached options for native Windows PowerShell. Tests cover platform-specific browser launch arguments, detached options for other launch cases, and live Windows browser and reveal launches. ChangesWindows PowerShell launch behavior
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to On Windows, opening links or revealing files from the desktop app may briefly show a PowerShell console window. The launch itself still works. Setting the hide option is a one-line fix, and the change is otherwise safe to merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Resolution Implement completion and exit-status handling for the short-lived PowerShell helper. Propagate useful failure details to the existing client error path. Convert PowerShell CLIXML or equivalent missing-target output into readable error text. Add regression tests for non-zero helper exit and missing targets while preserving the existing valid-path quoting tests.
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In `@apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.ts`:
- Around line 209-223: Update the spawn options in resolveWindowsBrowserLaunch
and the corresponding editor/reveal PowerShell launch path to set windowsHide
for native Windows PowerShell launches, including when detached is false.
Preserve existing behavior for non-Windows platforms and non-PowerShell
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| function resolveWindowsBrowserLaunch( | ||
| target: string, | ||
| command: string, | ||
| platform: NodeJS.Platform, | ||
| ): ProcessLaunch { | ||
| const encodedCommand = encodeUtf16LeBase64( | ||
| `$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Start ${escapePowerShellStringLiteral(target)}`, | ||
| ); | ||
| return { | ||
| command, | ||
| args: [...POWERSHELL_ARGUMENTS_PREFIX, encodedCommand], | ||
| options: { | ||
| detached: true, | ||
| // Native Windows PowerShell can exit before executing a detached launch. | ||
| // WSL uses Linux process-session semantics and keeps its existing behavior. | ||
| detached: platform !== "win32", |
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Hide native PowerShell windows for non-detached launches.
On Windows, the browser and editor/reveal PowerShell spawns set detached: false but omit windowsHide. Node defaults windowsHide to false, so PowerShell can show a console window when the desktop backend has no console.
Suggested fix
stderr: "ignore",
+ windowsHide: platform === "win32",
},
};
}
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stdout: "ignore",
stderr: "ignore",
+ windowsHide: platform === "win32" && isWindowsPowerShellCommand(spawnCommand.command),
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In `@apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.ts` around lines 209 - 223, Update
the spawn options in resolveWindowsBrowserLaunch and the corresponding
editor/reveal PowerShell launch path to set windowsHide for native Windows
PowerShell launches, including when detached is false. Preserve existing
behavior for non-Windows platforms and non-PowerShell commands.
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What Changed
Fix Windows file reveal and browser actions that report success but open nothing. The server now launches PowerShell with
detached: falseon native Windows.The change is limited to PowerShell. Editor launches, macOS, Linux, and WSL keep their existing behavior.
Closes #11172
Closes #11780
Why
With the previous spawn options, PowerShell could exit before running the script that opens Explorer or the browser. Since spawning the process succeeded, the server had no error to report.
Removing detachment lets the script run. The launcher still ignores stdio and calls
unref(), so it does not keep the server's event loop alive.Testing
The Windows smoke tests now use the actual launcher and process spawner, with a recording stub in place of Explorer or the browser. They cover both launch paths and retain the file-selection check for paths containing spaces and an apostrophe.
The packaged desktop app has not been retested.
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Note
Fix detached mode for Windows PowerShell browser and editor launches
isWindowsPowerShellCommandhelper to detect native Windows PowerShell commands in externalLauncher.tsresolveWindowsBrowserLaunchnow takes the host platform and spawns with detached mode disabled on win32, enabled on Linux/WSLlaunchEditorProcessdisables detached mode for native Windows PowerShell editor commands, keeps it true for non-PowerShell and non-Windows commandsexecFileSync-based smoke test with live Windows-only tests using a filesystem watcher and staging file to record PowerShell arguments without opening Explorer or a browserlaunchEditorProcessdetached behavior now depends on the resolved command path matchingpowershell.exe; any editor path that resolves to a differently-named PowerShell wrapper will still spawn detached on win32Macroscope summarized 89201e5.
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