Screenshots: Refresh retries every failed preview, even if a background check lands meanwhile

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ entry to `~/.ssh/config` and keys at `~/.ssh/id_ed25519_frame` and
 
 This is a first public test, so reports are really useful, especially from
 Windows and Linux. The quickest way is **Report a problem** in the app (the
-speech-bubble button at the top, or **Help → Report a Problem…**). It adds
+warning-sign button at the top, or **Help → Report a Problem…**). It adds
 diagnostics with personal details removed, shows you exactly what's included,
 and sends it privately to the maintainer; nothing is published. Without the app,
 use the [feedback form](https://frame-control.pages.dev/feedback/). Please include:

app/main.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Frame Control as a desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux): starts ui/server.py on
 // a free loopback port and shows it in a native window. The server does all the
 // work over the `frame` SSH alias; this file only hosts it.
-const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu, Notification, clipboard, dialog, ipcMain, shell } = require("electron");
+const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu, Notification, clipboard, dialog, ipcMain, nativeImage, shell } = require("electron");
 const { execFile, spawn } = require("child_process");
 const { promisify } = require("util");
 const fs = require("fs");
@@ -264,6 +264,14 @@ function fromUi(e) {
 }
 
 ipcMain.handle("clipboard:read", (e) => fromUi(e) ? clipboard.readText() : "");
+// A PNG or JPEG (a screenshot) onto the clipboard as an image.
+ipcMain.handle("clipboard:writeImage", (e, bytes) => {
+  if (!fromUi(e) || !(bytes instanceof Uint8Array)) return false;
+  const img = nativeImage.createFromBuffer(Buffer.from(bytes));
+  if (img.isEmpty()) throw new Error("not an image");
+  clipboard.writeImage(img);
+  return true;
+});
 ipcMain.handle("connection:setup", (e) => { if (fromUi(e)) setUpConnection(); });
 ipcMain.on("keys:capture", (e, on) => { if (fromUi(e)) win.webContents.setIgnoreMenuShortcuts(on === true); });
 ipcMain.handle("update:get", (e) => fromUi(e) ? publicUpdate() : null);

app/preload.js

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 // to the Frame needs no pbpaste, PowerShell, xclip or wl-clipboard. Also tells
 // the page where a dropped file or folder lives, so a folder can be sideloaded
 // as a title without zipping it (the local server reads it from there).
-// It can open Set Up Connection when the headset can't be reached, and keeps the
-// Frame menu's list of headsets up to date.
+// It can put a screenshot on the clipboard as an image, open Set Up Connection when
+// the headset can't be reached, and keeps the Frame menu's list of headsets up to date.
 // It also receives frame-control://install links (docs/web-install.md): only
 // what the link asked for, never an install; the page asks the user first.
 // And it passes update state both ways: see app/updater.js.
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ const { contextBridge, ipcRenderer, webUtils } = require("electron");
 contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld("frameApp", {
   notify: (message, request) => ipcRenderer.invoke("comfort:notify", message, request),
   readClipboard: () => ipcRenderer.invoke("clipboard:read"),
+  writeImage: (bytes) => ipcRenderer.invoke("clipboard:writeImage", bytes),
   setUpConnection: () => ipcRenderer.invoke("connection:setup"),
   // The Frame menu's headset switcher: the page tells it the headsets, and hears picks.
   devicesChanged: (list) => ipcRenderer.send("devices:changed", list),

docs/devices.md

@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@
 Frame Control can manage more than one Steam Frame, and each headset can be
 reached at more than one address: a LAN IP at home, another at the office, its
 mDNS name (`frame.local`), its Tailscale IP or MagicDNS name. The **Devices**
-tab (key 5) lists them. The connection pill in the header says whether the one in
-use is connected and how (Tailscale, or the network's name); click it to add,
-edit or reorder that headset's addresses, or to see each step of connecting.
+tab (key 5) lists them, and the connection pill in the header shows what the
+app is doing to reach the one in use, step by step, as it happens.
 
 The code is in three modules, all stdlib-only Python on your computer:
 
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ and ranks them:
 5. addresses that only ever worked on other networks;
 6. Tailscale addresses while Tailscale is off.
 
-Your order (on the Devices tab, or in the pill's dialog) breaks ties. The best-ranked address that answers
+Your order on the Devices tab breaks ties. The best-ranked address that answers
 wins; one that answers first waits up to 0.35 s for a better-ranked one that is
 still trying. If SSH to the winner fails in a way another address could fix
 (a different device answered there, or the link dropped), the next one that
@@ -73,16 +72,6 @@ status --json`, including the Mac app's own CLI) with buttons to add their
 MagicDNS name or IP. **Find on this network** asks mDNS for SteamOS devkit
 services and checks `ALIAS.local` and `frame.local`.
 
-**The pill's dialog** lists the same addresses, with what each one answered, and
-can add, edit, reorder and remove them without leaving the page you're on. When
-the headset reports a LAN IP on the same network as this computer and that IP
-isn't saved, it offers to add it. The offer puts the address first in the list,
-so on that network it wins over the Tailscale name; away from home the Tailscale
-name still leads. A new or edited address is tested straight away. While
-connected, **Reconnect** applies your changes now rather than at the next
-connection: it tries the addresses again, ranked as above, and the best-ranked
-one that answers promptly wins. It doesn't pick a particular address.
-
 ## Networks
 
 A network is told apart by its default gateway: the router's IP address plus its
@@ -133,8 +122,7 @@ file per headset instead, so saving or forgetting one headset's key never touche
 another's: a different device answering at one of its
 addresses is refused, and the pill says so. A headset's first connection trusts
 the key it shows, as Set Up Connection does. After reinstalling SteamOS the
-headset has a new key; **Forget identity** (Devices tab → **Advanced**, with the
-SSH alias, user and port) lets the next
+headset has a new key; **Forget identity** on the Devices tab lets the next
 connection save the new one.
 
 ## One server at a time

docs/frame-control.md

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ The window has five tabs: **Home** (headset view, status, screenshots),
 the catalogue, display settings, reports), **Tools** (sending files and text,
 Flatpaks, remote and power) and **Devices** (your headsets and their addresses).
 Keys 1–5 switch between them. Files can be dropped anywhere in the window. A
-connection pill in the header always shows which headset and whether it's
-connected, and how (Tailscale, or the network's name). Click it to add, edit or
-reorder the headset's addresses, or to see each step of connecting. When the Frame can't be
+connection pill in the header always shows which headset, which network this
+computer is on, the address in use or being tried, and each step of connecting
+as it happens; click it for the whole timeline. When the Frame can't be
 reached, a banner says why in plain words, what was tried, and counts down to
 the next try, filling everything in once it answers. Flatpak and Android installs run in the background; the bottom bar
 counts them while they run.

docs/privacy.md

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ The same error is sent at most once every 10 minutes.
 
 ## Report a problem
 
-**Report a problem** is the speech-bubble button in the header, also in the
+**Report a problem** is the warning-sign button in the header, also in the
 Privacy panel and under **Help → Report a Problem…**. It sends the report
 privately to Frame Control's PostHog project as a `problem_report` event, the
 same way as the analytics above, so only the maintainer can read it and

docs/vr-utilities.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ it twice reuses the existing process.
 | Compositor CPU | OpenVR compositor render CPU milliseconds, not game CPU time. |
 | System CPU | `/proc/stat` busy-time delta across the sample, with guest time counted once and iowait treated as idle. |
 | GPU clock | `3d00000.gpu/cur_freq`, converted from Hz to MHz; frequency is not load. |
-| Hottest sensor / battery | Existing thermal-zone and battery sysfs reads from `frame_status.py`. In the headset HUD only: the app shows them once, in the battery menu at the top. |
+| Hottest sensor / battery | Existing thermal-zone and battery sysfs reads from `frame_status.py`. |
 
 OpenVR uses background application mode, which does not start SteamVR or keep
 it running. This mode also returned live timing in a read-only device probe.

tests/test_devices.py

@@ -296,20 +296,6 @@ class Pins(Base):
 
 
 class Registry(Base):
-    def test_an_address_added_first_wins_on_its_own_network(self):
-        # The page's "Add 192.168.x.x" offer: the headset is reached over Tailscale, which has
-        # worked here before. The LAN address has to go ahead of it to be used at home.
-        d = self.reg.add_device("frame-4", hosts=["frame.tail1234.ts.net"])
-        self.reg.record_success(d["id"], "frame.tail1234.ts.net", "n-home", 6.0)
-        self.reg.add_address(d["id"], "192.168.1.40", kind="lan", first=True)
-        self.reg.record_success(d["id"], "192.168.1.40", "n-home", 1.0)  # Test now found it
-        addrs = self.reg.get(d["id"])["addresses"]
-        self.assertEqual([a["host"] for a in addrs], ["192.168.1.40", "frame.tail1234.ts.net"])
-        at_home = [a["host"] for a, _ in fd.order_addresses(addrs, "n-home", True)]
-        self.assertEqual(at_home[0], "192.168.1.40")
-        away = [a["host"] for a, _ in fd.order_addresses(addrs, "n-cafe", True)]
-        self.assertEqual(away[0], "frame.tail1234.ts.net")  # elsewhere Tailscale still leads
-
     def test_address_editing(self):
         d = self.reg.add_device("frame-3", hosts=["192.168.1.40"])
         a = self.reg.add_address(d["id"], "frame-3.local", label="mDNS")

tests/test_link.py

@@ -457,47 +457,6 @@ class Connecting(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(self.routes, [])
         self.assertTrue(all("ControlPath=none" in c for c in self.calls() if "-G" not in c))
 
-    def test_a_test_started_earlier_cant_overwrite_a_newer_one(self):
-        d = self.device("nothing.invalid")
-        entered = {1: threading.Event(), 2: threading.Event()}
-        release = {1: threading.Event(), 2: threading.Event()}
-        calls = []
-
-        def probe(host, port, update=None):
-            calls.append(host)
-            n = len(calls)
-            entered[n].set()
-            release[n].wait(10)
-            return {"state": "refused", "detail": f"test {n}", "ip": None, "rtt_ms": None}
-
-        tests = [threading.Thread(target=self.link.test, args=(d["id"],), daemon=True) for _ in range(2)]
-        with mock.patch.object(fl, "probe", probe):
-            try:
-                tests[0].start()
-                self.assertTrue(entered[1].wait(5), "the first test never probed")
-                tests[1].start()
-                self.assertTrue(entered[2].wait(5), "the second test never probed")
-                # The first finishes while the second is still probing: it mustn't show its
-                # rows or mark the second done.
-                release[1].set()
-                tests[0].join(10)
-                self.assertFalse(tests[0].is_alive())
-                running = self.link.snapshot()["tests"][d["id"]]
-                self.assertFalse(running["done"])
-                self.assertEqual(running["rows"][0]["detail"], "Waiting")
-                release[2].set()
-                tests[1].join(10)
-                self.assertFalse(tests[1].is_alive())
-            finally:
-                for e in release.values():
-                    e.set()
-                for t in tests:
-                    if t.ident:  # started
-                        t.join(10)
-        result = self.link.snapshot()["tests"][d["id"]]
-        self.assertTrue(result["done"])
-        self.assertEqual(result["rows"][0]["detail"], "test 2")
-
     def test_switching_to_a_headset_that_never_answers_stops_using_the_last_one(self):
         self.device("localhost")
         self.hosts({"localhost": "ok"})

tests/test_server.py

@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ class ServerGuards(unittest.TestCase):
             ("/api/volume", {"level": 1.5}),
             ("/api/clipboard", {"text": ""}),
             ("/api/open", {"what": "anything-else"}),
+            ("/api/open", {"what": "shot", "id": "1/250820/../../.ssh/id_ed25519"}),
+            ("/api/open", {"what": "shot"}),
             ("/api/shots/save", {"ids": []}),
             ("/api/shots/save", {"ids": "1/250820/20260925225208_1.jpg"}),
             ("/api/shots/save", {"ids": [1]}),
@@ -121,6 +123,10 @@ class ServerGuards(unittest.TestCase):
             status, payload = self.post(path, body)
             self.assertEqual(status, 400, f"{path} {body} -> {payload}")
 
+    def test_showing_a_shot_needs_it_saved_here(self):
+        status, payload = self.post("/api/open", {"what": "shot", "id": "1/250820/19990101000000_1.jpg"})
+        self.assertEqual(status, 404, payload)
+
     def test_screenshot_ids_checked_before_ssh(self):
         for shot in ("../../etc/passwd", "1/250820/x.jpg", "1/2/20260925225208_1.jpg;id", "1/250820/20260925225208_1.gif"):
             status, _, _ = self.request("GET", f"/api/shots/image?id={quote(shot)}", headers={"X-Frame-UI": "1"})

ui/frame_devices.py

@@ -623,9 +623,7 @@ class Registry:
                 return a
         raise DeviceError(f"{host} isn't one of this headset's addresses")
 
-    def add_address(self, device_id, host, kind=None, label="", first=False):
-        """Add an address at the end of the list, or at the front (first=True), where the
-        user's order makes it win over the others that work on the same network."""
+    def add_address(self, device_id, host, kind=None, label=""):
         with self._changing():
             d = self._find(device_id)
             a = new_address(host, kind, label)
@@ -633,7 +631,7 @@ class Registry:
                 raise DeviceError(f"{a['host']} is already on the list")
             if len(d["addresses"]) >= 32:
                 raise DeviceError("That's enough addresses for one headset")
-            d["addresses"].insert(0 if first else len(d["addresses"]), a)
+            d["addresses"].append(a)
             self.save()
             return copy.deepcopy(a)
 

ui/frame_host.py

@@ -153,6 +153,19 @@ def open_path(path):
                      stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, **DETACHED)
 
 
+def reveal_path(path):
+    """Show a file selected in its folder (Linux file managers vary, so there the folder opens)."""
+    path = Path(path)
+    if MAC:
+        cmd = ["open", "-R", str(path)]
+    elif WINDOWS:
+        cmd = f'explorer /select,"{path}"'  # as one string: Explorer wants the quotes after the comma
+    else:
+        return open_path(path.parent)
+    subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                     stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, **DETACHED)
+
+
 open_url = open_path  # the same openers hand URLs to the default browser
 
 

ui/frame_link.py

@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ class Link:
         self.version = 0
         self.stopped = False
         self.kicks = []                 # reasons someone asked for a (re)connect
-        self.test_gen = {}              # device id -> its newest test of the addresses (see test())
         self.busy = False               # the loop is handling kicks
         self.state = {"phase": "idle", "reason": None, "device": None, "network": None, "stages": [],
                       "probes": [], "via": None, "error": None, "retry_at": None, "attempt": 0,
@@ -956,13 +955,9 @@ class Link:
         started = now()
         rows = [{"host": a["host"], "kind": a["kind"], "state": "waiting", "detail": "Waiting", "ip": None,
                  "rtt_ms": None, "ssh": None} for a in device["addresses"]]
-        with self.cond:
-            gen = self.test_gen[device_id] = self.test_gen.get(device_id, 0) + 1
 
         def put(**fields):
             with self.cond:
-                if gen != self.test_gen[device_id]:
-                    return  # a newer test has started: its results are the ones to show
                 self.state["tests"][device_id] = dict({"started": started, "done": False, "rows": rows}, **fields)
                 self.version += 1
                 self.cond.notify_all()
@@ -1116,8 +1111,7 @@ def devices_action(link, body, open_setup, busy=lambda: 0):
                 raise frame_devices.DeviceError(f"Removed, but couldn't edit ~/.ssh/config: {e}")
         msg = f"Removed {d['name']}" + (f" and its '{d['alias']}' entry in ~/.ssh/config" if removed else "")
     elif action == "address-add":
-        a = reg.add_address(did, body.get("host"), body.get("kind") or None, body.get("label") or "",
-                            first=body.get("first") is True)
+        a = reg.add_address(did, body.get("host"), body.get("kind") or None, body.get("label") or "")
         if is_active and link.state["phase"] == "failed":
             link.kick("retry")
         msg = f"Added {a['host']}"

ui/server.py

@@ -1192,6 +1192,12 @@ def open_thing(body):
             SHOTS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
             frame_host.open_path(SHOTS_DIR)
             return {"message": f"Opened {SHOTS_DIR} in {frame_host.FILE_MANAGER}"}
+        if what == "shot":
+            saved = SHOTS_DIR / shot_path(body.get("id")).rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
+            if not saved.exists():
+                raise Failure("That screenshot isn't saved on this computer yet", 404)
+            frame_host.reveal_path(saved)
+            return {"message": f"Showed {saved.name} in {frame_host.FILE_MANAGER}"}
     except frame_host.HostError as e:
         raise Failure(str(e), 500)
     raise Failure("unknown target", 400)