fix(macos): make recording work on Monterey, and stop calling a dead helper a denied permission - #527
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR raises the macOS minimum to macOS 13 for ScreenCaptureKit capture, removes the macOS 12 browser fallback, and adds typed cursor accessibility results with helper availability handling. ChangesmacOS capture and deployment
Cursor accessibility handling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR sets macOS 13 as the supported floor and removes the older-system recording fallback, so Monterey users may still be unable to record despite the stated goal of restoring Monterey support; this mismatch should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. The Linux capture documentation inconsistency also needs bounded owner follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant useScreenRecorder
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useScreenRecorder->>ElectronIPC: request capture and cursor status
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MacCursorHelper-->>ElectronIPC: return typed status
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useScreenRecorder->>BrowserPipeline: continue with system cursor mode when applicable
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In `@electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/macNativeCursorAccess.test.ts`:
- Around line 18-26: The macNativeCursorAccess tests do not cover the
absent-helper path. Update the node:fs accessSync mock to throw for every
candidate, then add assertions that the result status is “missing-helper” and
isMacCursorHelperUnavailable(status) returns true; set app trust to false and
verify the trust probe receives false after the production fix.
In `@electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/macNativeCursorRecordingSession.ts`:
- Around line 125-132: Update the accessibility status probe in the recording
session’s trust-check flow to call
systemPreferences.isTrustedAccessibilityClient with false, preventing a prompt
before helper discovery. Preserve the existing error handling and helper probing
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In `@scripts/check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs`:
- Around line 36-43: Update declaredMacOsFloor to first extract only the
manifest’s platforms: declaration block, then perform the enum and string macOS
floor matches within that block; add a test fixture containing a decoy .macOS
value in a comment or unrelated string to ensure it is ignored.
In `@src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.ts`:
- Around line 1678-1692: Update finalizeRecording to persist the effective
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All four findings held up against the code. Verified each rather than applying them on faith; none was a false positive, and two are defects I introduced. 1. Do not prompt from the Accessibility status probe (macNativeCursorRecordingSession.ts). The call is now a status read feeding `accessibilityTrusted`, but it still passed `true`, so it raised the macOS prompt BEFORE discovering whether the helper can run — asking for a grant that is not what is missing on exactly the branches this PR stops blaming on permissions. The code contradicted its own comment. Nothing is lost on the one path that does ask the user: reaching `not-determined` means the helper ran, and it calls AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions with kAXTrustedCheckOptionPrompt itself on every start. The call in start() keeps `true` deliberately — its return value is discarded, so prompting is the point there; now commented so the asymmetry does not read as an oversight. 2. Persist the cursor mode the take actually used (useScreenRecorder.ts). The browser finalizer stored the REQUESTED mode while the main process had been told the forced one, so a macOS 12 or Linux fallback recording claimed "editable-overlay" having baked the system cursor in. User-visible: `openscreen project show` prints it. Both sites now derive it from one function rather than repeating the expression ~1200 lines apart, which is how they drifted. 3. Scope the Package.swift floor parser to the platforms block and strip comments from it (check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs). It matched file-wide, and the block is preceded by a long comment discussing these very version numbers — one careless edit from reading the prose and passing for the exact bug it guards. Not a live defect today; the manifest has a single `.macOS(`. Added decoy cases above and inside the block, both of which the old regex got wrong. 4. Cover the absent-helper path (macNativeCursorAccess.test.ts). The fs mock made every candidate executable, so `missing-helper` — the other half of #515's conflation, and the branch whose dialog used to tell users to run a build script — was never exercised. Also pinned finding 1 with a test asserting the probe is called with `false` and never `true`; confirmed it fails when the change is reverted. Refs #515
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46-46: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winStrip Swift block comments before parsing the declaration.
Line 46 removes only line comments. A block-commented
.macOS(.v12)before an active.macOS(.v13)still matches at line 48. The deployment-floor test can then pass while the package no longer supports macOS 12.Proposed fix
- const declarations = block.replace(/\/\/[^\n]*/g, ""); + const declarations = block.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\/|\/\/[^\n]*/g, "");Add a fixture with
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In `@scripts/check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs`:
- Line 46: Update the comment-stripping logic in the declaration parsing flow to
remove Swift block comments as well as line comments before matching deployment
declarations, so commented `.macOS` values cannot affect the result. Add a
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173-173: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep the public installation guides consistent.
This line states that Linux uses native capture with a browser fallback.
website/docs/installation.mdlines 120-121 still state that Linux uses the browser pipeline and does not support custom cursor themes. Update the website table to match the current Linux behavior, or align both documents with the actual implementation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs`:
- Line 41: Update declaredAppFloor() to remove JSON5 comments and extract
minimumSystemVersion only from the mac configuration object, rather than the
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Parse the actual macOS builder configuration.
declaredAppFloor() scans the entire JSON5 source and returns the first "minimumSystemVersion" match. A commented example or unrelated string before the real mac.minimumSystemVersion can make this test compare against a value that electron-builder does not use. Scope the match to the mac object, strip comments before matching, and add a decoy-comment test.
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In `@scripts/check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs` at line 41, Update
declaredAppFloor() to remove JSON5 comments and extract minimumSystemVersion
only from the mac configuration object, rather than the first occurrence in the
full source. Add a test fixture containing a decoy commented or unrelated value
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The cursor helper was being stamped minos 13.0, so on Monterey dyld killed it before it could print its `ready` line — and the app reported that death as a denied Accessibility grant, re-prompting forever however many times the user granted it (#515). The floor was never meant to cover this binary. b9e2134 set .macOS(.v13) when ScreenCaptureKit was the package's only target; b2f9afa added openscreen-macos-cursor-helper beside it and the package-wide `platforms:` block silently applied to it too, though its deepest requirement is CryptoKit (10.15). Note the mechanism is NOT a loader version gate: dyld does not refuse a binary whose minos exceeds the running OS (verified — a minos 99.0 binary execs fine). It is the linker. At >= 13 the Swift Foundation overlay symbols resolve against Foundation.framework and libswiftFoundation.dylib is dropped from the load commands; on macOS 12 those symbols live only in that dylib. Measured, arm64 release: before minos 13.0, 0 undefined symbols from libswiftFoundation, not loaded after minos 12.0, 26 undefined symbols from libswiftFoundation, loaded Native capture still requires macOS 13 — enforced in Swift, not by the floor. ScreenCaptureKit stays weak-linked at .v12, so a 12.0-12.2 host reaches the legible unsupportedMacOS error instead of dying in dyld. Refs #515
…ssion `requestMacCursorAccessibilityAccess` collapsed five outcomes into one boolean, so "the helper could not run" and "the user said no" arrived at the UI indistinguishable. Only `not-determined` is a real denial — the helper ran, asked, and was told no. The other four mean it never got to ask. That conflation is what made #515 inescapable: on macOS 12 the helper died in dyld, the app read that as a missing grant, and told the user to allow a permission they had already allowed. Pressing record could never do anything else, whatever they did in System Settings. - macNativeCursorRecordingSession: narrow `status` to a union, and return the app's own Accessibility trust (already computed, previously discarded) so callers can tell "broken build" from "missing grant". - handlers: dialog only for a genuine denial; the rest log and continue. Drops the missing-helper detail string, which told users to run a build script. - useScreenRecorder: block the countdown only for a genuine denial. Nothing was bought by blocking otherwise — the session already degrades to position-only telemetry and the editor draws the cursor from bundled sprites, so only the pointer/text shape hints and click-bounce are lost. - Gate native capture on macOS 13, the floor ScreenCaptureRecorder actually declares, and fall back to browser capture below it as Windows and Linux do. - Force the system cursor whenever a take goes through browser capture on a platform that cannot exclude it. Only the win32 branch uses getDisplayMedia (`cursor: "never"`); the desktop-capture path bakes the real cursor into the pixels, so keeping "editable-overlay" would composite a second synthetic cursor on top. This also fixes the same latent defect on the Linux fallback. Refs #515
…loor Two guards for #515, at the two levels the bug crossed. macNativeCursorAccess.test.ts covers the runtime contract that did not exist before: a helper that died, could not be spawned, or hung is reported as unavailable, not as a denied grant — while the app's own Accessibility trust is carried alongside, so a broken build is distinguishable from a missing permission. The `exited` case is the reported bug: the helper is killed before `ready` while the app IS trusted. check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs guards the root cause itself. Verified it fails against the original defect rather than merely passing now: AssertionError: Package.swift declares macOS 13, above the app's supported floor of 12. [...] expected 13 to be less than or equal to 12 A text assertion, not a build, so it also runs on the Linux and Windows CI legs where no Swift toolchain exists. Docs: README and website/docs/installation.md both claimed macOS 12.3 "required by ScreenCaptureKit", which was wrong twice over — the shipped binaries were minos 13.0, and this code has always gated native capture at 13 via @available. They now say macOS 12 minimum, 13+ for native capture, with the browser fallback below that. Refs #515
All four findings held up against the code. Verified each rather than applying them on faith; none was a false positive, and two are defects I introduced. 1. Do not prompt from the Accessibility status probe (macNativeCursorRecordingSession.ts). The call is now a status read feeding `accessibilityTrusted`, but it still passed `true`, so it raised the macOS prompt BEFORE discovering whether the helper can run — asking for a grant that is not what is missing on exactly the branches this PR stops blaming on permissions. The code contradicted its own comment. Nothing is lost on the one path that does ask the user: reaching `not-determined` means the helper ran, and it calls AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions with kAXTrustedCheckOptionPrompt itself on every start. The call in start() keeps `true` deliberately — its return value is discarded, so prompting is the point there; now commented so the asymmetry does not read as an oversight. 2. Persist the cursor mode the take actually used (useScreenRecorder.ts). The browser finalizer stored the REQUESTED mode while the main process had been told the forced one, so a macOS 12 or Linux fallback recording claimed "editable-overlay" having baked the system cursor in. User-visible: `openscreen project show` prints it. Both sites now derive it from one function rather than repeating the expression ~1200 lines apart, which is how they drifted. 3. Scope the Package.swift floor parser to the platforms block and strip comments from it (check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs). It matched file-wide, and the block is preceded by a long comment discussing these very version numbers — one careless edit from reading the prose and passing for the exact bug it guards. Not a live defect today; the manifest has a single `.macOS(`. Added decoy cases above and inside the block, both of which the old regex got wrong. 4. Cover the absent-helper path (macNativeCursorAccess.test.ts). The fs mock made every candidate executable, so `missing-helper` — the other half of #515's conflation, and the branch whose dialog used to tell users to run a build script — was never exercised. Also pinned finding 1 with a test asserting the probe is called with `false` and never `true`; confirmed it fails when the change is reverted. Refs #515
Reverses the direction of this PR's first commit. The inconsistency behind #515 was that the app advertised macOS 12 while shipping native helpers built for 13; that had to be resolved one way or the other, and supporting 12 is the wrong way. The deciding argument is not Monterey's age. It is that the support would be unverifiable: nobody on the team has a Monterey machine, CI runs macos-latest, and ScreenCaptureKit capture is gated at 13 in the code regardless — so macOS 12 users would land on a browser-capture fallback that nothing ever exercises. An untested promise is how #515 happened in the first place. - Package.swift returns to .macOS(.v13), now documented as deliberate rather than inherited. - electron-builder.json5 declares mac.minimumSystemVersion 13.0. Declaring without enforcing is the actual defect: with the key unset the bundle inherited Electron's own 12.0, so a Monterey user got all the way to the record button. LaunchServices now refuses to open the app below 13, which is the honest signal and strictly better than today's permission loop. - Drops the unsupported-os gate and the macOS browser fallback added earlier in this branch: unreachable once the app cannot launch below 13, and an unreachable branch is the cost this decision exists to avoid. - README and installation.md say 13. Also drops the now-noise "macOS 12 and below cannot capture system audio" notes. Kept, because they are correct at any floor: - The helper-unavailable/permission-denied taxonomy. That conflation is a real bug whatever the floor is, and it is what turns any future helper failure into a legible message instead of an unwinnable permission dialog. - The double-cursor fix, which matters for Linux, where the browser fallback is live. check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjs now reads the floor from electron-builder.json5 rather than hardcoding it, and asserts Package.swift never rises above what the .app advertises — the exact invariant #515 broke. Verified it fails at .v14 against a declared 13. Refs #515
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Fixes #515.
The bug
On macOS 12.7.6 the record button always raised "Accessibility access is required for the editable cursor", however many times the user granted it. The reporter's screenshot shows
Openscreen.appticked in the Accessibility list with the dialog still up.Package.swiftpinnedplatforms: [.macOS(.v13)]for the whole package.b9e21347set that floor when ScreenCaptureKit was the only target;b2f9afablater addedopenscreen-macos-cursor-helperbeside it, and SwiftPM has no per-target override — so a helper whose deepest requirement is CryptoKit (10.15) inherited a macOS 13 floor.On Monterey it died before printing its
readyline. The runtime then mislabelled that death:requestMacCursorAccessibilityAccesscollapsed five outcomes into one boolean, the handler told the user to grant a permission they already held, anduseScreenRecorderreturned before the countdown.The mechanism is not the obvious one
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minoshigher than the running OS does not by itself stop a binary launching — a binary stampedminos 99.0execs fine. The gate is the linker. At a deployment target >= 13 it resolves the Swift Foundation overlay symbols againstFoundation.frameworkand drops/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFoundation.dylibfrom the load commands; on macOS 12 those symbols live only in that dylib. The SDK's$ld$previous$/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFoundation.dylib$1.0.0$1$10.15$13.0$...directives are the cutover (16,990 of them).Measured, arm64 release:
minoslibswiftFoundation.dylibin load commandsChanges
Package.swift->.v12..v12and not"12.3": at 12.0 ScreenCaptureKit stays weak-linked, so a 12.0-12.2 host reaches the legibleHelperError.unsupportedMacOSguard instead of dying in dyld. Native capture still requires macOS 13 — that floor is enforced in Swift by@available, not by this one.not-determinedis now the only genuine denial; the other four statuses mean the helper never got to ask. The app's own Accessibility trust rides along, so a broken build is distinguishable from a missing grant. Dialog and countdown block only on a real denial — the session already degrades to position-only telemetry and the editor draws the cursor from bundled sprites, so only pointer/text shape hints and click-bounce are lost.getDisplayMedia, the one browser API here that can exclude the system cursor. The desktop-capture path bakes it into the pixels, so keepingeditable-overlaywould composite a second synthetic cursor on top. This also fixes the same latent defect on the Linux browser fallback — the one behaviour change here that reaches a platform other than macOS.website/docs/installation.mdclaimed macOS 12.3 "required by ScreenCaptureKit", wrong twice over: the shipped binaries wereminos 13.0, and this code has always gated native capture at 13.Verification
tsc --noEmit,docs:check— all pass.scripts/check-macos-deployment-target.test.mjswas checked to fail against the original defect, not merely pass now:expected 13 to be less than or equal to 12. It is a text assertion, so it runs on the Linux and Windows CI legs too.macNativeCursorAccess.test.tspins theexited-while-app-is-trusted case — the reported bug.Not verified, and two known gaps
This was never executed on Monterey — the dev host is macOS 26.5. The macOS 12 half rests on measured load commands and the SDK's cutover directives, not on a run. Someone with a Monterey box should confirm the countdown appears.
Recording may not be the only thing broken there. An audit reported that the bundled ffmpeg dylibs and whisper binaries set no deployment target at all, so their floor drifts with the build machine (
minos 26.0measured locally, ~15.x from CI'smacos-latest). If that holds, the compositor addon cannot load on macOS 12 and preview/export stay dead even with this fix. I could not verify it here (electron/native/binis empty in a fresh worktree) and did not rebuild third-party binaries on an unconfirmed number — worth a follow-up, along with a pack-timeminosguard inbefore-pack.cjs.Summary by CodeRabbit