[MatthewFeroz]

Small displays could receive an oversized startup window and an enforced 840×620 minimum. Startup now fits fallback windows within the primary display’s work area, independent of display enumeration order. Saved windows that fit full display bounds keep their existing position, including Dock/taskbar overlap. The preferred native minimum is 360×320, capped by the initial window size; positive compositor-assigned bounds can be saved and restored even below that preference.

Maintainer takeover of MatthewFeroz’s #13125, preserving the author’s commits and merging main. The native minimum is local to window creation; persistence accepts actual positive dimensions.

Verification:

• Focused tests: 62 → 61 after minimization, then 63 with two review regressions; all 57 main-owned cases are preserved. Fixed the obsolete test helper and kept four behavior cases. All four fail against main production; all 63 pass with the final fix. Two further cases fail before the review fixes and pass afterward: saved Dock/taskbar overlap and a primary display enumerated after a secondary. Before/after test proof.
• Two independent full-diff review rounds completed. Round one found the saved-overlap and display-order regressions; both are fixed, and Opus/Sol round two found no code blockers.
• Desktop typecheck, scoped lint, formatting, and whitespace checks pass.
• Current renderer checked against an isolated server at 360×320 and 800×574. Composer and submit control fit; compact controls scroll within the smaller viewport. This is browser layout proof, not native Electron sizing proof.

Current renderer at 360×320:

Current renderer at 800×574:

Original author’s historical native before/after evidence (predates this takeover; not a current-head native rerun):

Native Electron/compositor behavior, Windows taskbars, macOS display work areas, Android, and iOS were not verified on this headless Linux machine. Maintainer product approval for the 360×320 minimum remains required.

Implementation: GPT-6.1 Sol; tests: GPT-6 Astra; independent review: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol through T3 Code delegated agents and Codex/Claude harnesses.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change fits fallback windows to the primary display’s work area and lowers minimum window dimensions. These alter default desktop behavior and require human confirmation of the sizing and placement choices.

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[MatthewFeroz]

The persistence edge case is fixed in 5bcb40b, with regression coverage for a 280 × 240 work area. All latest CI jobs and the correctness review pass. The earlier failure in the unchanged GitVcsDriver diff-statistics test did not recur on the latest run.

The PR description includes before/after screenshots and a native Hyprland resize recording. Macroscope is deferring automatic approval because the minimum window dimensions are a product default; this is ready for maintainer review.

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Walkthrough

The PR allows settings to preserve smaller positive window bounds. It also uses display work areas to resolve initial window bounds and caps minimum dimensions against the resolved size.

Changes: Window bounds handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounds contract and persistence coverage apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopAppSettings.ts, apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopAppSettings.test.ts	The bounds schema accepts positive integer dimensions without the previous 840×620 minimum. A test verifies that smaller saved bounds load unchanged.
Work-area sizing and validation apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts, apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts	Initial sizing restores persisted bounds when they fit a display. Otherwise, it fits or centers default bounds within the primary work area. Window minimum dimensions are capped against the resolved size. Tests cover six display and saved-bounds cases.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DesktopWindow
  participant screen
  participant BrowserWindow
  DesktopWindow->>screen: Read display bounds and primary work area
  DesktopWindow->>DesktopWindow: Resolve initial window bounds
  DesktopWindow->>BrowserWindow: Create window with resolved bounds and minimum dimensions

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Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Desktop still enforces 840px minimum width, preventing narrow windows on MacBook Air #25446 — The changes address smaller native minimum dimensions and fallback sizing for small displays.
• [Bug]: Desktop window always reopens on the primary monitor, forgetting the display it was last used on #4841 — The changes alter saved-bounds validation and display-based fallback, but do not record the display for a maximized window.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#21590 — Both changes modify persisted-bounds fitting and restoration in the main-window bounds flow.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25833 — Both changes modify persisted main-window bounds restoration and display fitting.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to aff64

The window-sizing changes are mergeable after normal checks and approval of the 360×320 product default.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to c48fc

The change is confined to window sizing and saved geometry, without an identified increase in access or privileges. Remaining uncertainty concerns native behavior at extremely small sizes and restoration after returning to an older version.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated new influence is over the local application's saved and restored geometry. Manipulating persisted bounds requires influence over its settings file; traced geometry values reach native sizing rather than identity, backend exposure, credential selection, or navigation authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The geometry schema still requires integer coordinates and positive integer dimensions. Main-window creation explicitly enables context isolation and sandboxing and disables Node integration; geometry is supplied separately from these renderer security options.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(desktop): fit windows on small displays" follows conventional commit form and matches the main change: startup windows on small displays now fit within the primary display's work area i…
Description check		The description follows the template's main sections in substance. The Problem and Change content is present: oversized startup windows and the enforced 840×620 minimum, plus the fix that fits fallbac…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title "fix(desktop): fit windows on small displays" follows conventional commit form and matches the main change: startup windows on small displays now fit within the primary display's work area instead of an enforced 840×620 minimum. It is specific and describes the primary behavior change from the developer's perspective.

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The description follows the template's main sections in substance. The Problem and Change content is present: oversized startup windows and the enforced 840×620 minimum, plus the fix that fits fallback windows within the primary work area and sets a 360×320 preferred minimum. Verification is detailed, with focused test counts, before/after proof, typecheck and lint results, and renderer checks, and it states what was not verified. The Scope and approval section is only partly addressed. It links the superseded PR #13125 and notes that maintainer product approval for the 360×320 minimum is still required. It does not link a triaged issue or give the explicit maintainer approval comment, and the template asks for that or for an exemption explanation. The template's HTML comments were removed, which is acceptable. The description is mostly complete, but the approval gap is a non-trivial omission, so the check should not fail.

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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch desktop-app-05. I will preserve your commits, update the test harness for current main, and run focused implementation and independent review passes. The smaller default minimum remains an explicit product approval point. Thanks for the small-display work.

[maria-rcks]

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

continued on the original writable fork head, preserving the author's commits. merged github/main into 607a282157c5b7459abcfbcf8ff30b92024e4a5a and reconciled the existing window tests with main's test removals. the final fix remains four files, with 123 additions and 11 deletions against main.

verification: blacksmith vp run check:changed passed formatting, lint, both knip passes, desktop/scripts typechecks, and the two focused test files (37 tests). six regression cases fail against main's production code and pass with the fix. two independent gpt-6.1-sol reviews approve the final diff. native electron startup on this linux vm confirms main opens an 840×620 window on an 800×600 display; the fix opens at the 800×460 work area with a 360×320 minimum. matching screenshots use the same disabled-local-environment state. the current web renderer also loaded at 800×574 in system chrome.

ci build/typecheck, lint, tests and macroscope correctness pass. no unresolved review threads. macroscope requests human approval for the 360×320 product default. coderabbit skipped this head because of its review rate limit. its historical docstring warning does not justify adding comments that conflict with this repo's comment policy. macos/windows native sizing, wayland, and multi-display native behavior remain unverified; mocked-electron cases cover primary display enumeration, saved taskbar overlap, offscreen fallback and tiny persisted bounds.

before: main's window extends beyond the display, clipping the close button and bottom sidebar controls.

after: the window fits the 800×460 work area, with the close button and bottom controls visible.

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[juliusmarminge]

Thanks for the small-display work. #28223 already lowers and persists the desktop minimum to 400×360 in ccde655b8f. Please cut this PR down to the remaining separate work, such as fitting startup windows to the primary work area and preserving compositor-assigned bounds below that minimum.