Microphone permission is checked at startup via getMediaAccessStatus, and
camera has a dedicated request-camera-access IPC handler, but screen
recording relied entirely on desktopCapturer.getSources() to implicitly
trigger the TCC prompt — causing the permission dialog to reappear on
every launch (issue #558).
Note: askForMediaAccess() only accepts "microphone" | "camera"; screen
recording TCC is triggered via desktopCapturer.getSources() instead.
Fix:
- Import desktopCapturer in main.ts
- Call getMediaAccessStatus("screen") in app.whenReady(); trigger the
TCC prompt via getSources when status is "not-determined"
- Add request-screen-access IPC handler symmetric to request-camera-access
setPermissionCheckHandler and setPermissionRequestHandler only allowed
["media", "audioCapture", "microphone", "videoCapture", "camera"], causing
any renderer-side getUserMedia/desktopCapturer request using a screen source
to be silently denied by Electron before macOS TCC is ever consulted.
Fix: add "screen" and "display-capture" to both handler allowlists.
Both ipcMain.once handlers now check event.sender.id against
windowToClose.webContents.id and ignore messages from any other
renderer, preventing cross-window response mix-ups if multiple editor
windows are ever open simultaneously.
- Add buildDialogOptions helper function to safely attach parent window only when valid and not destroyed
- Update all dialog calls (save-exported-video, open-video-file-picker, save-project-file, load-project-file) to use the helper
- Fix supportsWindowOpacity logic by removing || isWayland so Linux always follows no-opacity codepath
- Change incorrect Chromium feature name 'PipeWire' to 'WebRTCPipeWireCapturer' in main.ts
- Remove unused isWayland variable in handlers.ts
- Add pacman package build target for Arch Linux in electron-builder.json5
- Update build:linux script in package.json to include pacman target
- Fix dialog window issues on Wayland/Hyprland:
* Pass mainWindow reference to dialog.showSaveDialog and dialog.showOpenDialog in electron/ipc/handlers.ts
* Required for proper dialog functionality on Wayland compositors
* Previously dialogs opened without parent window attachment causing issues on Hyprland
Changes ensure:
- Correct video export on Arch Linux + Hyprland systems
- Ability to install via pacman package manager
- Improved compatibility with Wayland compositors
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