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Fix: Reduce tray memory - #60

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Fixes high background RAM usage: when minimized to the tray, the main window is now hidden immediately and, after a grace period (3 minutes) of staying hidden, is actually destroyed to release the WebView (WebKitGTK/WebView2/WKWebView) from memory. Reopening within the grace period is instant (window is just unhidden); reopening after it has elapsed rebuilds the window from scratch and reuses the existing splash screen so the transition looks the same as first launch instead of a blank window mid-render.

Since Tauri exits the process once the last window is destroyed, the app now also intercepts ExitRequested to keep running (tray + Go backend) with zero windows open — while still allowing a real exit when the user explicitly quits from the tray (tracked via a quitting flag, since app.exit(0) itself raises the same ExitRequested event).

Additionally fixes two related "zombie process" issues:

  • Relaunching the app (e.g. double-clicking the .AppImage) while an instance was already running in the tray spawned a whole second Tauri + WebKit process. Added tauri-plugin-single-instance to intercept this and just focus the existing window instead.
  • The Go backend could be left orphaned (holding the SQLite lock and its port open) if the parent process died without going through the tray's "Quit" path (crash, kill -9, session logout). On Unix, the child process now dies with the parent via PR_SET_PDEATHSIG.

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How was this tested?

  • Manually verified via the RAM/CPU monitoring script (ps -eo pid,%cpu,rss,comm | grep -iE 'devaulty|WebKit') that the WebKit process disappears from the process list after minimizing to the tray and staying hidden past the grace period, and reappears only after reopening.
  • Reopened the main window from the tray within the grace period and confirmed it comes back instantly (no splash, no rebuild).
  • Reopened after the grace period elapsed (tested with a shortened duration) and confirmed the splash screen reappears while the main window rebuilds, then hands off exactly like a normal boot.
  • Confirmed the backend responds immediately on reopen either way (no 30s handshake wait, since it was already running).
  • Killed the main process with kill -9 and confirmed the Go backend process terminates alongside it instead of becoming orphaned.
  • Launched a second instance of the .AppImage/installed binary while one was already running in the tray and confirmed it just focuses the existing window instead of spawning a duplicate process.
  • Verified "Quit" from the tray cleanly kills the backend child process and fully exits the app process (fixed a regression where ExitRequested from app.exit(0) was being swallowed by the same handler that keeps the app alive after the main window is destroyed).

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  • Novidades

    • Atualização da versão do aplicativo para 0.1.20-beta.
    • Novas inicializações direcionam para a janela já aberta, evitando múltiplas instâncias.
    • Fechar a janela pelo botão passa a ocultá-la temporariamente, permitindo reabertura rápida.
    • Janelas e tela de abertura são recriadas automaticamente quando necessário.
    • O encerramento explícito continua disponível pelo menu da bandeja do sistema.
  • Correções

    • Melhorada a sincronização entre reabertura e destruição temporária da janela.
    • Aprimorado o encerramento de processos associados no Linux.

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A versão do aplicativo passa para 0.1.20-beta. O Tauri adiciona instância única, retenção temporária da janela principal e recriação de janelas destruídas. O backend vincula seu encerramento ao processo pai somente no Linux.

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Encerramento do backend com o processo pai
frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml, frontend/src-tauri/src/backend.rs
O backend configura PR_SET_PDEATHSIG e pre_exec somente no Linux. A dependência libc também fica restrita ao Linux.
Instância única e ciclo de vida das janelas
frontend/src-tauri/src/lib.rs, frontend/src-tauri/src/session.rs, frontend/src-tauri/src/tray.rs, frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
Novas inicializações usam a instância existente. O fechamento oculta a janela por 180 segundos. O Mutex<u64> sincroniza a destruição e a reabertura das janelas.
Metadados da versão 0.1.20-beta
backend/internal/domain/model/version.go, frontend/package.json, frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
As versões do backend, frontend e aplicativo passam para 0.1.20-beta.

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The lifecycle changes appear to restrict Linux-specific backend handling appropriately, but the existing macOS compilation concern lacks sufficient current-head evidence for closure and should be confirmed before merge.

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  participant NovaInicializacao
  participant PluginInstanciaUnica
  participant Tray
  participant SessionState
  participant JanelaPrincipal

  NovaInicializacao->>PluginInstanciaUnica: inicia o aplicativo
  PluginInstanciaUnica->>Tray: chama show_main_window
  Tray->>SessionState: incrementa hide_epoch sob bloqueio
  Tray->>JanelaPrincipal: mostra ou recria a janela
  JanelaPrincipal->>Tray: solicita fechamento
  Tray->>JanelaPrincipal: oculta a janela
  Tray->>SessionState: agenda destruição por 180 segundos
  Tray->>JanelaPrincipal: destrói se o epoch permanecer válido
  Tray->>SessionState: marca quitting para saída explícita
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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/src-tauri/src/backend.rs`:
- Line 83: Restrict the parent-death hook guarded at the visible cfg points to
Linux by replacing both #[cfg(unix)] annotations around libc::prctl and
libc::PR_SET_PDEATHSIG with #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]. Update the libc
dependency configuration to use the target-specific Linux dependency section.

In `@frontend/src-tauri/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 96-99: Protect the hide-timer sequence around the hide_epoch
check, get_webview_window("main"), and destroy() with a shared lifecycle lock.
Reuse that same lock in the paths that increment the epoch, show the window, or
recreate it, including tray::show_main_window, so reopening cannot occur between
validation and destruction.

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… synchronization and refine Linux-specific backend process handling
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