Electrobun 2.x replaces the vendored CLI with Hutch: the npm package is now a
bootstrap whose exports are a throwing stub, and the SDK is projected into
.hutch/devkit. The app stays on the Bun main process — `mainProcess: "bun"` is
load-bearing, since the 2.x default (Cottontail) ignores build.bun and with it
the ssh2 externals — and the bundle now ships the pinned Bun 1.4.0.
- electrobun 2.0.2 as an exact devDependency. `electrobun prepare` takes the
old CLI re-sign step's slot in postinstall and every dev/build/start/release
script: tsc (root tsconfig extends the devkit's) and the Angular build
(electrobun/view mapped into the devkit) resolve the SDK there.
- Imports move to electrobun/main. The CLI re-sign script and the v1 "three"
type shim are gone (Hutch's binaries are validly signed).
- UI: Electroview's bunSocket is hostSocket; noImplicitReturns is off because
the devkit's raw-TS browser SDK compiles inside the UI program.
- Updater.applyUpdate() now consults before-quit, so the transfers/unsaved
guard's "Quit Anyway" re-runs the apply instead of quitting without it.
- 2.x applies trafficLightOffset from macOS's default button position (1.18.1
clamped it inside the titlebar); {12, 4} centres the lights in the header.
- Releases: mac-x64 dropped (2.x publishes no macOS x64 core, so no Rosetta
path). artifacts/ is emptied before each build and published verbatim.
Installers lost the stable- prefix (the update feed kept it), so release.ts,
deploy.sh and the site links follow. Linux ships Electrobun's Setup
installer instead of the portable tarball and its miniSCP.sh wrapper.
- Docs cover all of the above, plus re-checks against 2.0.2: still no native
modal windows; window close is now cancellable through will-close.
Verified: tsc, build:ui, a stable mac-arm64 release (dmg + the v1-compatible
stable-macos-arm64 feed) and dev launches (RPC, Settings window, traffic
lights). Windows/Linux builds and the v1 -> 2.x Windows update bridge still
need their first run on native machines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the NVIDIA proprietary driver the app booted, logged "miniSCP started",
reported no error — and painted a completely black window, with stderr showing
"Failed to create GBM buffer of size WxH: Invalid argument" and an X11
GLXBadWindow. WebKitGTK's DMABUF renderer cannot allocate buffers there;
WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 is the upstream workaround. Pre-existing on
Linux, unrelated to the context-menu change — it just had never been looked at
because nothing on Linux had been run before.
The app CANNOT apply this to itself. WebKit reads the variable when it forks
its web process, and Bun's `process.env` writes do not propagate to child
processes (verified: a spawned child sees it unset), so setting it in
src/bun/index.ts is inert even from a module imported before `electrobun/bun`.
It has to be in the environment before the app process starts, which means
every launch path must inject it:
- scripts/linux-gpu.ts — shared `launchEnv()` helper, gated on
/proc/driver/nvidia so Intel/AMD keep hardware compositing, and never
overriding an explicit value from the user's environment.
- scripts/dev.ts — uses it for `bun run dev`.
- scripts/start.ts (new) — `bun run start` previously called `bunx electrobun
dev` straight from package.json, where no env could be set; it now goes
through a script like dev does.
- scripts/release.ts — writes a `miniSCP.sh` wrapper beside bin/launcher in the
Linux tarball, since a packaged app goes through none of the above.
Documented in gotchas.md (including that a "does it boot?" log check does NOT
catch this — the log looks healthy) and platform-notes.md, with the smoke test
updated to require that the UI actually renders.
Verified: backend `tsc --noEmit` clean, `bun run build:ui` clean, and
`bun run start` now boots with zero GBM/GLX errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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