[EtienneLescot]

Refs #1357

Cause
With the system-cursor setting, the PipeWire helper asks the portal for the EMBEDDED cursor mode. niri's portal does not offer it, so negotiate refused and nothing was recorded.

Fix

• The helper probes the offered cursor modes before ready and resolves EMBEDDED to METADATA when only METADATA is available (CursorMode::resolve). The portal, the click readers and ready all use the resolved mode.
• ready now carries cursorMode. LinuxNativeCaptureSession.cursorMode exposes it, and the start handler records the take as editable-overlay when METADATA was negotiated, so the cursor samples are saved and the editor draws the pointer.
• No change when EMBEDDED is offered. Older helpers that omit cursorMode keep the requested mode.

Tests

• Rust: resolve unit tests and the ready serialization test. cargo test in WSL with the flake-pinned rustc 1.97.1: 104 passed.
• npx vitest --run electron/native-bridge/capture electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording: 67 passed, including two new session tests.
• npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit: clean. npm run lint: no new diagnostics.

Not verified
A real capture on a portal without EMBEDDED (niri). Needs a desktop session and the portal picker, so not run here.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Linux screen recording now negotiates cursor display modes with the system portal.
  • When the requested cursor mode is unavailable, recording can fall back to metadata-based cursor rendering when supported.
  • Recording status now reports the cursor mode selected for the session.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserves the requested cursor mode when no alternative is available or reported.
  • Webcam overlays now use the cursor mode selected for the active recording session.

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• src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.nativeLinuxWebcamCursor.test.tsx
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📝 Walkthrough

Linux native capture now resolves cursor modes against portal capabilities. The helper reports the resolved mode in its ready event. The capture session retains the reported mode, and recording and webcam attachment use the stored mode.

Changes: Linux cursor mode negotiation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve portal cursor modes electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/portal.rs, electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs	The helper retrieves offered cursor modes. It resolves an unsupported Embedded request to Metadata when Metadata is offered. Tests cover fallback and unresolved modes.
Report and retain negotiated mode electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/events.rs, electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs, electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/pipeWireCursorAccumulator.ts, electron/native-bridge/capture/linuxNativeCaptureSession.ts, electron/native-bridge/capture/linuxNativeCaptureSession.test.ts	The ready event carries cursorMode. The capture session retains supported helper-reported modes or falls back to its configured mode. Tests cover both cases.
Apply negotiated mode electron/ipc/handlers.ts, src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.ts, src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.nativeLinuxWebcamCursor.test.tsx	The IPC handler maps Metadata to editable-overlay. Linux webcam attachment uses the stored session mode and falls back to the current hook mode. Tests cover stored editable-overlay and system modes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PipeWireHelper
  participant Portal
  participant LinuxNativeCaptureSession
  participant IPCHandler
  participant WebcamAttachment
  PipeWireHelper->>Portal: retrieve offered cursor modes
  Portal-->>PipeWireHelper: return offered cursor modes
  PipeWireHelper->>LinuxNativeCaptureSession: ready event with resolved cursorMode
  LinuxNativeCaptureSession->>IPCHandler: provide negotiated cursor mode
  IPCHandler->>WebcamAttachment: provide stored cursor capture mode

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 979ab

Webcam attachment preserves the negotiated cursor mode. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks.

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🟡 Minor · Pass the effective cursor mode to webcam attachment. · handlers.ts:3889

electron/ipc/handlers.ts:3889
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the effective cursor mode to webcam attachment.

After Linux stop, the attachment call forwards the requested cursorCaptureMode, not the negotiated mode. If the helper resolves system to metadata, the attachment can overwrite editable-overlay with system in the session manifest and media links.

🐛 Suggested fix

-						cursorCaptureMode,
+						cursorCaptureMode: result.session?.cursorCaptureMode ?? cursorCaptureMode,

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Review comment at @electron/ipc/handlers.ts at line 3889:
Update the post-Linux-stop webcam attachment call to pass the effective cursor
mode from result.session.cursorCaptureMode when available, falling back to the
normalized cursorCaptureMode value; preserve the existing fallback behavior and
use this effective mode for session manifest and media-link updates.

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- Line 3889: Update the post-Linux-stop webcam attachment call to pass the
effective cursor mode from result.session.cursorCaptureMode when available,
falling back to the normalized cursorCaptureMode value; preserve the existing
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[EtienneLescot]

Outside-diff finding on the Linux webcam attachment: valid. Fixed in 979ab22 at the source of the payload. The renderer now forwards the mode main stored at stop (result.session?.cursorCaptureMode), so the attachment no longer overwrites editable-overlay in the manifest or media links. The renderer's own value was also stale: this callback is reached through the first render's stopRecording closure. A hook test covers both stored modes.