* fix(config): share one ConfigManager across the process
main(), the tray, and the sound-effects check each constructed their own
ConfigManager. Every instance loads the whole config into memory at
construction time and save_config() writes that whole cache back, so any
save from a stale instance silently reverts what another instance saved
in the meantime — no race needed, the second save just wins with old
values. The disk-read workarounds in main (_should_append_trailing_space)
already existed to dodge exactly this.
Add get_shared_config_manager() and route the three call sites through
it. It keeps ConfigManager constructible for tests, and the tray/dialog
pair already shared one instance, so this extends that arrangement to
the rest of the process.
Tests: a regression test runs the two-instance scenario through the
accessor, and a source guard fails if application code constructs
ConfigManager directly again. conftest drops the shared instance
between tests, since it would otherwise be created under whichever
mocks the first caller had active and leak them into later tests.
The two single-instance tests now patch acquire_lock itself: they used
patch.dict(sys.modules, ...), which main()'s "from . import" ignores
once an earlier test has imported the real module — they only passed
through an unrelated mock leaking into the tray's shortcut setup, which
this change stops.
* fix(config): lock the shared accessor and prove the revert it prevents
Review follow-ups on #691:
- guard the lazy create with a lock, so two threads racing the first
call cannot each build a ConfigManager and reintroduce #689
- take both handles before the first save in the accessor test, and
assert identity there — the old order let a fresh ConfigManager pass
- add a characterization test: two direct ConfigManager instances still
revert each other, which is the footgun the accessor exists to hide
- patch get_shared_config_manager in test_main and test_audio_feedback
instead of the class, so a leftover singleton cannot skip the mock
- close the ExitStack in _boot_under_patches when main() raises; the
caller only closes a stack it received, so a failure there leaked
those patches into every later test
* fix(audio): route the tone lookup through the shared ConfigManager
The tone picker merged on main (#707) constructs its own ConfigManager,
which is exactly the stale-cache overwrite this branch removes; the new
source guard in test_shared_config_manager.py flags it.
* fix(settings): size the unused downloads list to its real rows
The list reserved 56px per row, but a row renders taller than that once
its margins and the Delete button are counted. With two leftover models
the header read "2 leftover models" while only the first row fitted in
the viewport, and the second could neither be seen nor deleted. The
overlay scrollbar gave no hint either, since it stays invisible until
hovered.
Measure the list once its rows are in place and cap that at the existing
220px, and keep the scrollbar in the layout so a list that does reach the
cap looks scrollable.
* fix(settings): test the list sizing without reimporting the dialog
Review follow-ups on #686.
The test helper popped vocalinux.ui.settings_dialog from sys.modules at
collection time and reimported it under a patched Gtk, restoring only
sys.modules and not the attribute on the package. Whichever module object
a later test reached then depended on collection order, which is why
test_model_deletion::test_whisper_list_and_delete failed on 3.9/3.10 with
assert [] == ['tiny'] while main stayed green.
Move the arithmetic into a module-level _clamp_unused_downloads_height()
and unit-test that directly, the way _list_downloaded_whisper_models is
already tested. Nothing touches sys.modules now.
The dialog cannot be instantiated under the mocked-GTK harness, so the
wiring the old tests never covered is asserted against the method source,
following test_settings_mode_change.py: refresh calls the fit, the fit
measures the listbox and feeds set_min_content_height, the per-row
estimate stays gone, and the scrollbar stays out of overlay mode.
* fix(settings): remeasure the unused-downloads list when it expands
The refresh measures while the expander is collapsed and the dialog may
not be mapped; if that first measurement ever comes back short, the
expand handler remeasures so the rows cannot stay clipped.
* fix(startup): resolve model size per engine instead of the legacy key
Startup read the generic "model_size" key, which always holds whichever
engine was saved last, so it initialized the configured engine with
another engine's model. With engine=whisper_cpp and a config left at
model_size=medium by a VOSK save, startup looked for ggml-medium.bin,
reported the model as missing and offered a fresh download while the
working ggml-small.bin named by whisper_cpp_model_size sat on disk.
Use ConfigManager.get_model_size_for_engine(), the resolver the settings
dialog already uses, so the generic key stays a write-only compatibility
shim. It falls back to the generic key when no per-engine key exists, so
older configs keep working.
* fix(config): migrate model_size into whisper_cpp_model_size
Review follow-up on #684.
get_model_size_for_engine() only falls back to the generic model_size key
when the engine key is missing from the in-memory dict, and DEFAULT_CONFIG
already ships whisper_cpp_model_size. After the merge in load_config() the
key is therefore always present, so a user file holding only
{engine: whisper_cpp, model_size: small} used to start on small and would
now start on the default tiny — the older-config path from #681.
_migrate_config already copies the model into vosk_model_size and
whisper_model_size; do the same for whisper_cpp so the resolver change is
behaviour-preserving for those files, and widen the migration trigger to
notice a missing whisper_cpp key.
Tests run against a real ConfigManager on a temp config, not a mocked
resolver: the migration case fails without this change, and the two
resolver cases pin the engine key winning over the generic one.
* installer: leave model downloads to first run when the release pins no checksums
* installer: refuse an unpinned VOSK model before spending the download
* installer: require a real device before reporting a Vulkan GPU
* build: replace the deprecated license table and complete the packages list
* installer: treat software Vulkan renderers as no GPU, not as one
* installer: keep diagnostics off stdout so captured detection output stays clean
Replace the 100% offline claims with on-device-after-model-download
language, mark Linux Available now, and add Phone and Gateway to the
family table with live sites and status.
* fix(copy): VocaWin is Beta, still unsigned
Call VocaWin Beta on the site family card, About blurb, and README table, same word as VocaMac. Keep the unsigned / SmartScreen wording. No version tag.
* fix(copy): cite VocaWin v0.1.0-beta.1, no release URL
The git tag exists on VocaHQ/vocawin. GitHub Releases does not. About, README, and the site family card name the tag. Links stay on vocawin.com and the repo.
* fix: leftover engine repair, just --no-sync, and ggml verify from #713#713 only rewrote a broken config.json toward whisper_cpp, so a reinstall
that kept the old engine still died when vosk was the extra that installed.
verify_configured_engine now prefers SELECTED_ENGINE, then any working extra,
and the vosk fallback rewrites an existing file.
just recipes use uv run --no-sync so they do not prune extras from
just deps-all. CONTRIBUTING lists libgirepository-2.0-dev for Ubuntu 24.04.
An unverified ggml file is not loaded if unlink fails, and an unpinned name
is refused rather than deleted.
* fix(appimage): retry tooling downloads on curl reset
* fix(build): bootstrap .venv for --no-sync just recipes and cover the contributor path in CI
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Silaev <hello@8am.dev>
* chore(build): migrate justfile tooling to uv
All recipes now run through 'uv run' against .venv, with a shared
DEV_EXTRAS variable (dev + vad) because uv syncs the environment
exactly and would otherwise uninstall the dev tools between
recipes. 'deps' installs dev+vad; new 'deps-all' covers every
extra. 'build' switches to 'uv build'; 'version' uses --no-sync.
Bump [tool.uv] required-version to >=0.12,<0.13 for uv 0.12.x, and
raise the mypy python_version target to 3.12: mypy 1.19 in the lock
cannot target 3.9 and numpy 2.x stubs need a 3.12 target to parse
(mypy is not run in CI or pre-commit; this only affects 'just
typecheck').
* fix(tests): isolate test runs from real XDG state; fix Arch model-path crash
Local test runs failed en masse (185 failures) while CI stayed
green: tests picked up the developer's real ~/.local/share/vocalinux
models via the default XDG paths and switched IBus/keyboard code
paths through the desktop session env (XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP/
XDG_SESSION_TYPE on GNOME/Wayland, issue #478 branches). conftest
now points XDG base dirs at a throwaway session-wide directory and
clears session variables at import time, mirroring a fresh CI
runner (paths like MODELS_DIR freeze at first import during
collection, so fixture-time isolation is too late).
Also guard the Arch branch of _get_system_model_paths(): it removed
/usr/local/share/vocalinux/models unconditionally and crashed with
ValueError on Arch hosts when a custom XDG_DATA_DIRS never added
that path. Add regression tests, and make the lock-file test assert
the actual $XDG_DATA_HOME/vocalinux contract instead of the
hardcoded ~/.local/share default.
* fix(tests): keep the IBus engine double a plain class
Python 3.14's unittest.mock re-instantiates a user subclass when it builds
child mocks (klass(name=...)). VocalinuxEngine inherits from whatever
IBus.Engine resolves to, and the test module bound that to the MagicMock
class itself, so every engine instantiation raised
TypeError: VocalinuxEngine.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name'
on 3.14 while passing on 3.13. Replace it with a plain stand-in class that
still hands out per-instance MagicMocks for the IBus API surface the engine
touches.
The same pattern remains in test_ibus_engine.py, test_ibus_engine_utils.py,
test_ibus_active_engine_guard.py and test_ibus_xkb_wayland.py; those never
instantiate the engine, so they are unaffected for now.
* fix(install): build the venv from the system Python
install.sh looked up a bare `python3` from PATH. Started from an activated
virtualenv — a shell left in uv's .venv after `just deps` — it built venv/
from that interpreter, where distro PyGObject is invisible even with
--system-site-packages, and the run aborted with
Distro PyGObject (python3-gi / python3-gobject) is not importable in the venv.
A mismatched venv/ then survived every retry, because the installer reuses
whatever venv it finds.
- drop an inherited VIRTUAL_ENV (and its bin from PATH) before any
interpreter lookup
- select the interpreter explicitly: $SYSTEM_PYTHON (default
/usr/bin/python3) or PATH python3, preferring one that can import gi,
and create the venv with it instead of `python3`
- recreate venv/ when it was built by a different interpreter
- name the interpreter in the PyGObject guard's error
Documents the two environments (uv's .venv for tooling, venv/ for the
installed app) in CONTRIBUTING, the justfile header and AGENTS.md, and adds
the mismatch symptom to the INSTALL troubleshooting section.
* chore(python): raise the supported floor to 3.11
requires-python promised 3.9 while the CI matrix ran 3.9/3.10/3.11/3.13,
the classifiers advertised up to 3.14, mypy targeted 3.12 and install.sh
enforced 3.9 — five different answers to "which Python does this support".
Settle on 3.11 everywhere: pyproject (requires-python, classifiers, black
targets), install.sh's MIN_VERSION, check-system-deps.sh, the distro package
map, the CI matrix (now 3.11-3.14, matching the classifiers), the release and
nightly workflows, and the docs.
mypy now targets the floor instead of 3.12, so type checking covers what we
promise; numpy 2.x ships stubs in 3.12 syntax that a 3.11 target cannot
parse, so its imports are skipped. (mypy has 71 pre-existing errors either
way; no CI job gates on it.)
uv.lock and the requirements/* exports are regenerated — dropping 3.9/3.10
removes most of the version-conditional resolution branches.
tests/test_python_version_policy.py pins the invariant: install.sh's floor,
requires-python, the classifiers and the CI matrix must agree.
* ci: run lint and tests from uv.lock
The lock file and the hash-pinned exports were not enforced anywhere: CI
still built a venv by hand and installed unpinned `PyGObject` plus
`-e ".[dev,vad]"`, so the tool versions it checked against had nothing to do
with the ones `just lint` uses locally.
Both Python jobs now use astral-sh/setup-uv and run through `uv sync
--locked` / `uv run --locked`, which also fails the build when uv.lock drifts
from pyproject.toml.
Partially covers phase 5 of #701 (tests install from the lock, lock freshness
gate); trusted publishing, artifact checksums and action SHA pinning are
still open there.
* ci: lint from a dedicated dependency group
The lint job failed on this branch: `uv run --extra dev` syncs the whole
project, so it tried to build pyaudio from source on a runner that installs
no system dependencies.
src/pyaudio/device_api.c:9:10: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
Move black/isort/flake8 out of the `dev` extra into a `lint` dependency
group. CI runs `uv run --locked --only-group lint`, which installs the three
pure-Python tools and skips the project entirely — no portaudio or
girepository headers needed. `just deps` and DEV_EXTRAS request the group
alongside the dev extras, so the local environment still carries test and
lint tooling at once and `just lint` matches CI version for version.
pre-commit is unaffected: its hooks pin their own tool versions upstream.
* fix(install): never configure an engine the venv cannot import
vosk became an optional extra in #705, but the installer still writes
`"engine": "vosk"` into config.json on the whisper.cpp fallback path even
when installing the extra only produced a warning. config.json also survives
reinstalls — every writer guards on "file does not exist" — so an engine
picked by an earlier attempt outlives the venv that supported it. Either way
Vocalinux dies at startup:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vosk'
- the fallback now writes the vosk config only when `import vosk` actually
succeeds, and otherwise leaves the engine configuration alone
- a new verify_configured_engine() runs near the end of the install: if
config.json selects vosk and the venv cannot import it, it says so and
prints both fixes instead of leaving a broken install behind
* feat(models): verify every model download against a pinned digest
Pins a sha256/md5 per downloadable speech model in
src/vocalinux/utils/model_checksums.txt and verifies against it in both
install.sh and the runtime downloaders, before the file is moved into place.
Verification fails closed. Covers phase 2.5 of #701; see the PR for details.
* docs(agents): rebase AGENTS.md onto the #727 rewrite
* fix(install): hash models that are already on disk instead of trusting them
* refactor(models): one download path per engine, and fix Whisper's
* docs(install): drop distros that cannot meet the 3.11 floor
* docs: retire the distros and Python versions the 3.11 floor rules out
* fix(install): abort instead of warning when Python is below the floor
* fix(install): fall back to the system Python, not the one on PATH
* fix(install): match an existing venv by installation, not by X.Y
* fix(install): repair a config naming an engine the venv cannot import
* fix(models): pin VOSK by the sha256 of bytes we fetched, not upstream's md5
* fix(justfile): request the dev set in every recipe that syncs
* test(version): scan the docs and website trees for a stale Python floor
* docs: correct the stale model-checksum and distro claims
* fix(models): stamp the VOSK tree the app extracts, as the installer does
* fix(install): replace an unverified VOSK model only once its successor is ready
* docs(install): align the Fedora floor with the rest of the tree
* test(install): drop an f-string with no placeholders
* test(models): stub the downloader probe the VOSK installer test relies on
* docs: drop the long dashes from two model-checksum comments
* fix(install): gate on the interpreter, not on the distro release label
* fix(justfile): export the lint group into requirements/dev.txt
* fix(models): unpack the VOSK tree into staging and stamp it before the swap
* fix(whisper): adopt a checkpoint an earlier release stored under the catalog name
* docs(settings): state what a stray Whisper copy really means for deletion
* fix(models): hash a whisper.cpp model found on disk before it reaches ctypes
* docs(contributing): stop telling readers to uninstall their linters
* fix(install): stop warning off distros the project documents as supported
* docs(distros): file the supported derivatives under supported
Stable minor since v0.15.0. Bumps version to 0.16.0 across app, web, AUR, and Flatpak AppStream, and refreshes docs, changelog, and SECURITY.
Tag v0.16.0 after this lands on main.
* feat(ui): About page for this app, VocaHQ, and talk to us
Settings About now has three groups. Vocalinux keeps the existing icon,
version, AGPL-3.0, updater, and What's New. The website button opens
vocalinux.com.
Part of VocaHQ lists the family sites with PRODUCT.md status. Talk to us
opens GitHub issues, Discord, X, and email. Official Design marks from
VocaHQ/.github are vendored as-is and painted with iron-white ink.
* fix(ui): unique About Open names and pin Design SVG hashes
Open buttons on About still say Open. Each one now uses its tooltip as
the accessible name so a screen reader can tell vocahq.com from
vocalinux.com from Latest Release.
The Talk-to-us SVG test pins sha256 of the four official marks from
VocaHQ/.github 61c8eee.
* fix(ui): circular app icon and About source code link
The launcher and About header used the square teal fill. Switch
both to the circular family logo (voca-logo.svg). Website stays
vocalinux.com; Source code next to it opens the GitHub repo.
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp to the version install.sh declares
* fix(appimage): pin pywhispercpp at both install sites
* test(docs): match AGENTS.md uv.lock wording
#727 dropped "unused until those phases land". The test still
looked for that line, so any PR that runs Python tests against
current main failed. Pin the current contract instead: uv.lock
is authoritative, and requirements/*.txt are not hand-edited.
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Silaev <hello@8am.dev>
* web: restyle vocalinux.com to the Voca family workbench
Bring the Linux marketing site onto the same paper, ink, and teal language
as VocaHQ, VocaMac, VocaPhone, and VocaGateway. Drop the site-wide dark
mode so the canvas stays paper-only, matching the other product sites.
* web: loop the home ribbon without a gap or jump
The ticker used a stretched full-width track, so a -50% slide left an empty
right edge before snapping back. Two equal groups, each wider than the
viewport, scroll by exactly one group width.
* web: match vocahq.com ribbon speed and teal band
The looped ticker was covering six item cycles in 32s, so it raced.
It now spends 28s per cycle like vocahq.com, uses the same dark-teal
band, and pauses when the tab is hidden.
* web: drive the hero panel clock from the visitor's local time
Replace the static 11:24 mock with a 24-hour HH:MM clock in the client
timezone, updated on the minute.
* web: add official platform marks on the family cards
Use the .github brand platform SVGs (Linux, Apple, Android, Windows)
plus the HQ server mark for VocaGateway, matching vocahq.com's product row.
* web: restore a Light/Dark flip on the screenshots page
The captured GTK shots exist in both appearances. A page-local switch
defaults to prefers-color-scheme and stores a tab override. The rest of
the site stays paper-only.
* web: make the homepage CTA say Install, not Get
The button already jumps to the one-line installer. Name that action,
note that there is no account, and keep the same copy in the closer
and the mobile menu.
* web: style install commands as GTK terminals
Command boxes use a headerbar with copy, a centered title, and
window controls on the right. The prompt is user@linux:~$, not
Mac traffic-light chrome.
* web: stop repeating the engine list in the hero
The proof line, the notes window, and the tray terminal all said
the same whisper.cpp / Whisper / VOSK / Remote API line. Engines
stay on the window chips. Proof is now desktop and license facts.
The terminal shows launching into the tray.
* web: reflow copy, color prompts, and add install paths
Drop pretty/balance wrapping so titles and ledes follow the
shell width. Color the user@linux prompt. Hero terminal now
says audio stays on this machine. Ribbon adds project words.
AppImage and source-build sit under the install command.
* web: put X, Discord, and GitHub by the footer mark
Official family social marks sit next to the Vocalinux logo.
Footer columns are Product, Install, Guides, and Project.
The bottom line is Part of VocaHQ, without X11 or whisper.cpp.
* web: add hello@vocahq.com to the footer social row
The official mail mark sits with X, Discord, and GitHub and opens
the family hello@vocahq.com address.
* web: use the circular mark in the header and footer
Header and footer now use the official teal circle lockup instead
of the square app icon.
* web: ship a circular favicon and a family OG card
Favicons use the teal circle lockup. The Open Graph image is redone
in the paper workbench language with the current homepage line.
* web: set the hero to Dictate locally / In any app
Shorter couplet in the VocaHQ display size, with a matching
lede and Open Graph card.
* web: gray the hero terminal note as a comment
The second line was reading as part of the vocalinux command.
It is now a dim # comment under the prompt.
* fix(web): drop stale 100% offline copy and mark VocaWin alpha
vocalinux.com still called VocaWin planned and said the Linux app was
100% offline. Local engines stay on the machine. Remote API is opt-in.
VocaWin is developer alpha: unsigned NSIS (~12 MB) and MSI (~34 MB),
latest prerelease v0.1.0-alpha.1.
Fixes#709
* fix(web): drop leftover never-leaves claims
Open source and privacy pages still said voice data never leaves the
machine. Local engines stay local. Remote API is opt-in.
#707 wrote generated start/stop files for the family picker. Swap those
for the downloaded preview bytes (voca is pair 05) and skip the catalog
ids in generate_sounds.py so they stay put.
* fix(settings): stop Test Dictation calling a missing model "no speech"
start_recognition now returns whether listening actually began. Test
Dictation checks that before starting its timer, so a missing or
auto-paused model gets a real error instead of "No speech detected".
* fix(settings): reconfigure Test Dictation against the live engine
UI matching config.json is not enough when speech_engine is still on
another engine or model size. Compare those too before the listen timer.
* fix(tests): keep settings_dialog lookups on one module
_load_settings_dialog() restored sys.modules but left
vocalinux.ui.settings_dialog pointing at the private reload.
Python 3.9/3.10 mock follows that attribute, so
test_whisper_list_and_delete patched a different copy than it
imported and the expanduser stub hid the real cache.
Point the package attribute back at the restored module, and
patch the imported module object in the deletion test.
Settings → Audio can pick start/stop cues from the shared catalog
(lift, flick, ember, step, voca, soft, chirp, scale, drop, glass, off).
New installs and any missing or unknown sound_effects.tone value use
voca. A saved id, including off, is left alone.
The old start_recording/stop_recording files stay on disk. They are
no longer the implicit default. Error cues still follow the existing
enable switch.
* fix(install): leftover review notes from #700 and #705
The scratch dir now holds pip logs and model download temps, so a failed
run has something to inspect. Dep, venv, leftover-process, and pip
failures use exit codes 2/3/4 instead of a blanket 1. --help says the
transcript is written during installation, and the tag hint is
--tag=<release>.
AGENTS.md no longer claims the hash-pinned exports are consumed (they
wait for phases 2/3/5). Docs add a just install line and
vocalinux[vosk] next to the PyPI commands. Settings points at
--engine=whisper. The whisper.cpp fallback installs ".[vosk]".
Fixes leftover review notes from #700 and #705.
Refs #701.
* fix(install): do not let pip build PyGObject from sdist
Fresh --auto --skip-system-deps died on pygobject-3.56.3 even with
distro python3-gi present. Install the other runtime deps from
pyproject.toml, then pip install --no-deps. Extra installs use the
extra's packages only, not pip install ".[extra]".
Fixes leftover review notes from #700 and #705.
Refs #701.
* fix(install): tolerate unset XDG_SESSION_TYPE under set -u
--auto with DISPLAY but no login session died on
XDG_SESSION_TYPE: unbound variable. The session probe now uses
${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-}, ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}, and ${DISPLAY:-}.
Phases 0-1 of #701. Drops dead deps, moves vosk to an optional extra, adds uv.lock and hash-pinned requirements exports, pins pywhispercpp to 1.5.0.
Closes#705. Refs #701.
Stacked bottom of #701. Replaces Makefile with justfile and hardens install.sh (strict mode, logging, HTTP probes, curl -f on model downloads, no v0.10.1-beta fallback).
Closes#700.
Replace the old traced app icon and tray SVGs with the approved family
mic geometry from VocaHQ/.github brand assets. Regenerate vocalinux.com
favicons and logo PNGs/WebPs from the same source. No version bump.
Per brand book §9 and §10.
TestTypedAccessors builds its ConfigManager with __new__ and, unlike
TestConfigManager, never patches CONFIG_DIR/CONFIG_FILE. That is fine
for the accessor tests, but test_whispercpp_advanced_persistence calls
save_config(), which writes the synthetic fixture from setUp over the
developer's real ~/.config/vocalinux/config.json — running the suite
silently wiped every personal setting. Caught by making the real file
read-only and running the suite with live logging; it is the only
write to the real path in the entire suite.
Redirect the paths to a temp directory for this test, the same way
TestConfigManager's setUp already does.
Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>
Both modal download paths ran _apply_settings_internal() on a worker
thread and then unconditionally marked the progress dialog complete.
Since _apply_settings_internal() swallows every exception internally,
a download that failed or was cancelled still ended with "Complete!",
the dedicated except blocks below (the "Download cancelled" and
Whisper-not-installed branches) were unreachable, and the swallowed
path built and ran a Gtk.MessageDialog from the download thread, off
the main loop.
Give _apply_settings_internal() a raise_errors flag and pass it from
the two thread call sites. Their handlers become reachable and already
report through the progress dialog via GLib.idle_add, so failures now
surface with the real reason and no Gtk work happens off the main
loop. Main-loop callers keep the old contract: swallow, show the error
dialog, return False.
* fix(whisper): use bundled GPU libs and skip software Vulkan devices
AppImage 0.15.0 shipped a CPU-only pywhispercpp wheel, so the Settings
GPU picker and host vulkaninfo never moved inference off the CPU. Rebuild
pywhispercpp with Vulkan in the AppImage, log the libraries that actually
load, skip llvmpipe in auto-select, and document how to verify.
Fixes#604
* fix(appimage): pin gcc/g++ for Vulkan pywhispercpp rebuild
Hosts that default cc/c++ to clang fail CMAKE's C++ test because clang
does not search gcc's libstdc++ path. Default the rebuild to gcc/g++.
Repo links, install one-liners, and release checks now use
github.com/VocaHQ/vocalinux. The site mentions VocaHQ without a redesign.
The Codeberg mirror, personal email, and X handle are unchanged.
Prefer 2ch before 1ch when PortAudio reports two or more input
channels. Intel SOF digital mics (the Raptor Lake device in #666)
often only support stereo at the PCM; opening them as converted
mono can abort with heap corruption right after capture starts.
Mono-only devices are still never probed with 2 channels (#567).
* fix(installer): gate util-linux-extra to Ubuntu 24.04+
util-linux-extra does not exist on Ubuntu 22.04 (package split landed in
24.04). Listing it unconditionally in APT_PACKAGES_UBUNTU breaks
install.sh on 22.04-based distros such as Linux Mint.
Fixes#526
* fix(installer): probe util-linux-extra via apt-cache
Replace Ubuntu VERSION_ID gate with apt-cache show probe (per review
feedback). Handles Ubuntu derivatives (Mint, Zorin) whose VERSION_ID
does not match the noble base where util-linux-extra exists.
Fixes#526
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* feat(settings): delete unused downloaded speech models
Add a Remove Model dropdown on the Speech Model page so whisper.cpp,
Whisper, and VOSK downloads can be deleted from Settings. The currently
selected model is marked in use and cannot be removed until you switch
away from it.
Fixes#650
* fix(settings): move unused model deletion below the picker
Unused downloads is its own group under the model info card. Only leftover
files appear, each with a Delete button. The group hides when empty.
* fix(settings): collapse unused downloads into an expander
Keep leftover models behind one row so a long list does not stretch the
Speech Model page. Expand to delete files one at a time; the list scrolls
once it grows past a few entries.
* fix(settings): keep leftover model list from clipping in the expander
Wrap the unused-downloads list so the expander can show a few rows and
scroll the rest, instead of painting only the first leftover.
* feat(settings): make language selector a searchable combobox
Turn the Speech Model language picker into a ComboBoxText with an
entry and GtkEntryCompletion so typing filters the 34+ language list
instead of scrolling the whole alphabet.
Fixes#652
* fix(settings): use ComboBoxText text/id column order for language search
Gtk.ComboBoxText stores display text in column 0 and the id in column 1.
Point EntryCompletion at the text column so typing "span" lists Spanish.
Add a horizontal separator between the sidebar Test Dictation
controls and the in-window Close button so Close reads as dialog
chrome rather than part of the testing section.
Fixes#651
Scoped IBus injection (#457) temporarily switches to the Vocalinux
engine but only restored the previous IBus engine, not the XKB map.
On X11 that left non-US layouts (e.g. Brazilian ABNT2) stuck on us
after dictation. Capture XKB before the switch and re-apply it in
the inject_text finally block (Wayland remains a no-op via #474).
Fixes#664
* feat(shortcuts): default to hold Right Alt push-to-talk on first install
Double-tap Ctrl conflicts with many desktop and app shortcuts, so new
installs now use hold Right Alt (Option) in push-to-talk mode. Existing
config.json values are preserved unchanged.
Updates README, user guide, AGENTS.md, first-run dialog, website copy,
and tests to match the new defaults.
* refactor(shortcuts): trim redundant default-change test and comments
Drop the fresh-install assertion that duplicated DEFAULT_CONFIG coverage,
remove the duplicated Right-Alt rationale from config_manager, and drop a
vacuous source-string check from the settings shortcuts test.
* fix(shortcuts): align install.sh seeds and preserve legacy toggle mode
install.sh still wrote ctrl+ctrl without mode, so merges with the new
push_to_talk default became hold-Ctrl. Seed right_alt + push_to_talk for
new installs, and migrate existing shortcut-only configs to mode=toggle
so prior behavior is unchanged.
* style(config): fix black formatting after shortcuts migration
* fix(shortcuts): preserve legacy defaults when shortcuts section is missing
Existing config files without a shortcuts section previously inherited
ctrl+ctrl toggle from DEFAULT_CONFIG. Pin those historical defaults on
upgrade so the new first-install Right Alt push-to-talk defaults do not
silently change behavior.
* docs(agents): unwrap hard-broken dictation control paragraph
Keep the AGENTS.md paragraph as a single line like the surrounding prose.
* feat(updates): notify when a newer GitHub release is available
Check the configured release channel shortly after startup and every six
hours. When an update exists, show a tray menu item and a green New badge
on Settings → About, plus one desktop notification per version, so users
can open release notes and update themselves.
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* refactor(updates): slim UpdateMonitor after ponytail review
Drop unused APIs (tick/check_now/version injector/last_* state), integer-only
GLib scheduling, and the local demo launcher. Keep tray notify-send local to
avoid coupling to recognition_manager.
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* fix(updates): address Bugbot and harden notify persistence
Persist last_notified_version only after notify-send spawns successfully,
and sync the tray Update Available item from About-page checks without
re-notifying. Also merge latest main and cover the new paths in tests.
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* test(tray): pin config mock for update-notification assertions
CI on 3.9/3.10 showed empty MagicMock set call history after a successful
notify-send spawn. Pin tray.config_manager to the test mock and record set()
via side_effect so persistence checks are reliable across Python versions.
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* fix(updates): clear pending About update on failed lookup
A failed About check hid the New badge but left _pending_update set, so
clearing settings search could revive the badge while status still showed
the failed lookup. Clear dialog pending state on failure (tray unchanged)
and restore the badge via _set_about_update_badge.
* fix(updates): ignore stale UpdateMonitor results after channel switch
Bind the channel for each background check and discard the callback when
the configured channel changed mid-flight, then re-check immediately —
matching About-page stale-channel handling so the tray cannot show the
wrong channel's update state.
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* fix(clipboard): text-only reads and safe overlapping restore
Force wl-paste/xclip to request text MIME types so image/file
clipboards are not decoded and "restored" as corrupted text.
Stop treating xclip's "target not available" as an empty clipboard.
Coordinate overlapping ydotool pastes with a generation counter and a
pending restore target so a second paste within the 300ms window
restores the original pre-injection content, not intermediate text.
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* refactor(clipboard): simplify restore ownership after ponytail review
Bump the restore generation only after a successful clipboard overwrite
so a failed copy cannot cancel an in-flight restore. Clear pending
target on paste failure unconditionally. Drop redundant state reads in
the restore thread and the artificial stale-restore unit test.
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* fix: restore clipboard after ydotool clipboard-paste injection
When ydotool is used on Wayland to inject non-ASCII text (Arabic,
accented letters, CJK, etc.), the injection path copies the text to
the clipboard and simulates Ctrl+V. This permanently overwrites whatever
the user had on their clipboard, which is surprising and disruptive —
especially for users dictating in languages that always trigger this path.
This commit adds two changes:
1. `_read_clipboard()` — reads the current clipboard content using the
first available tool (wl-paste, xclip, xsel), returning None if the
clipboard is empty or unreadable.
2. `_inject_via_clipboard_paste()` now saves the clipboard before
overwriting it and schedules a background thread to restore it 300 ms
after the Ctrl+V paste completes. The delay gives the target application
time to process the paste before the clipboard content changes.
The previous note "there is no safe race-free way to restore" was
accurate in the strict sense, but a best-effort restore after a short
delay is far better than never restoring, and covers all practical use
cases (the user is not expected to trigger another paste within 300 ms of
a dictation commit).
Fixes the UX issue where every dictation commit silently destroyed the
user's clipboard content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* tests: add unit tests for clipboard save/restore (PR #588)
15 tests covering _read_clipboard() (tool fallback chain, error handling,
UTF-8 decoding) and the restore behaviour in _inject_via_clipboard_paste
(content restored after delay, no restore on empty clipboard or paste
failure, daemon thread assertion).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* style: apply ruff formatting to test_clipboard_restore.py
Fixes CI lint failure — ruff format requires line length ≤ 88 chars.
No logic changes.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* style: apply black formatting to fix CI lint check
ruff format and black disagree on some style choices; the CI runs black.
No logic changes.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* fix: use text=True in _read_clipboard and respect copy_to_clipboard setting
Two issues:
1. _read_clipboard() called subprocess.run without text=True, meaning
stdout was bytes and .decode() was called. Existing tests that mock
subprocess.run return stdout="" (str), causing AttributeError on
.decode(). Switch to text=True + encoding/errors params so stdout is
always a str and no .decode() is needed.
2. When the user has copy_to_clipboard=true, inject_text() copies the
dictated text to clipboard after injection. The restore thread in
_inject_via_clipboard_paste was firing 300ms later and overwriting
that with the old content, silently breaking the setting. Skip the
restore when _should_copy_to_clipboard() returns True.
Tests: adds test_no_restore_when_copy_to_clipboard_setting_enabled,
updates all _read_clipboard mock stdout to str (was bytes).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* fix: Python 3.9 compat and cover restore-failure branch
Use Optional[str] instead of str | None for _read_clipboard return type
so the code runs on Python 3.9 (PEP 604 union syntax requires 3.10+).
Add test_restore_failure_is_handled_gracefully to exercise the else-branch
inside the _restore() closure, covering the two previously uncovered lines
reported by Codecov.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* fix: restore clipboard on paste failure and handle empty clipboard
Fix 1 (comment #1): when Ctrl+V simulation fails the clipboard was already
overwritten with dictated text but the original content was silently lost.
Now restore it immediately in the except block before returning False.
Fix 3 (comment #3): wl-paste and xclip signal an empty clipboard with a
non-zero exit code, causing _read_clipboard() to return None and skip the
restore — leaving dictated text in the clipboard forever. Detect the
"Nothing is copied" / "target STRING not available" stderr patterns and
return "" so the restore path can clear the clipboard back to empty.
Tests added for both behaviours; existing test updated to assert the
correct post-fix behaviour for paste failure.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* test: cover paste-failure branch when clipboard is unreadable
Add test for the case where Ctrl+V fails and previous_clipboard is None
(clipboard was unreadable), ensuring the restore is correctly skipped.
Closes the 1298->1300 branch gap reported by Codecov.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* test: cover wl-paste fallback on X11 (XWayland) path
Add a test for the `not host_is_wayland and shutil.which("wl-paste")`
branch in _read_clipboard(), which was showing as yellow/red on Codecov.
Simulates an X11 session with wl-paste available (XWayland environments).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* fix: proper clipboard clear and race guard on restore
Fix 5 (comment #5): add _clear_clipboard() that uses each backend's
native clear command (wl-copy --clear, xsel --clear, xclip with empty
input) instead of passing "" to _copy_to_clipboard(). Called when
previous_clipboard is "" to truly clear rather than set an empty offer.
Fix 6 (comment #6): before restoring, read the clipboard inside the
_restore() thread and skip if it no longer holds the injected text —
protecting against the user manually copying something else during the
300ms window.
Tests added for _clear_clipboard() per backend and for both new
restore-path behaviours. Existing restore tests updated to use
side_effect lists since _read_clipboard() is now called twice.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
* test: cover remaining _clear_clipboard() branches for Codecov
Add tests for:
- xclip path in _clear_clipboard() (line 931)
- health-check skip (line 911)
- exception fallthrough to next tool (line 947)
- _clear_clipboard() called immediately when paste fails with empty
previous clipboard (line 1354)
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg9NpTr6QaeXEyEBc5fvvz
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Document that CUDA-backed pywhispercpp always uses device 0, and
point to CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or a Vulkan build as workarounds.
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* fix(whisper): use CUDA device 0 when pywhispercpp is CUDA-backed
Vulkan GPU enumeration on hybrid laptops lists the iGPU as GPU0 and the
dGPU as GPU1, but CUDA ordinals always place the first NVIDIA GPU at 0.
Auto mode and the settings UI were passing Vulkan indices into CUDA
pywhispercpp, which silently fell back to CPU inference.
Detect the actual pywhispercpp backend before selecting gpu_device and
map CUDA installs to device 0. Vulkan-backed installs keep Vulkan indices.
* test(whisper): cover CUDA gpu_device selection branches for codecov
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* fix(ibus): restore engine after register_component teardown
Stopping the Vocalinux IBus engine process destroys its
register_component registration. IBus then runs check_global_engine(),
which only searches register_engine_list and treats XML engines like
xkb:es::spa as missing, clearing GlobalEngine even when Vocalinux was
never selected. Capture a restorable engine before teardown and
reselect it afterward so dead keys keep working after quit.
Fixes#558
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* fix(ibus): wait for engine exit before restoring GlobalEngine
Adversarial review of #643 found that stop_engine_process() returned
right after SIGTERM, so switch_engine() could race ahead of IBus
check_global_engine() and still leave No global engine. Wait for the
process to exit (SIGKILL fallback), retry engine restore, capture a
shutdown fallback during prepare_engine, and re-apply XKB after the
post-teardown engine switch.
Addresses review of #558 / #643.
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* fix(ibus): prefer live engine over stale warmup on quit
Bugbot on #643: stop() restored the warmup-cached engine even when the
user had switched input source afterward, and inject_text refused to
refresh that cache once set. Prefer the live non-Vocalinux engine at
quit; fall back to the cache only when stuck on vocalinux/unavailable.
Always refresh the shutdown fallback from inject_text.
Also cover SIGKILL teardown escalation and restore-retry failure paths
to lift patch coverage.
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* fix(appimage): ship transitive GI typelibs for non-Debian hosts
The 0.15.0 AppImage pruned girepository down to a partial allowlist and
dropped xlib/Dbusmenu/GModule. On Ubuntu the missing typelibs fell back
to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0; on openSUSE/Fedora that
path does not exist, so Gtk failed to import and startup reported
missing GTK3/AppIndicator (#585).
Keep linuxdeploy's typelib extras, seed the full transitive set, bundle
AppIndicator/Notify shared libs, and smoke-test GI imports with host
typelibs hidden.
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* style(test): format appimage packaging regression test
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* fix(ci): avoid libappindicator/ayatana apt conflict
Ubuntu packages libappindicator3-1 and libayatana-appindicator3-1
conflict. Rely on gir1.2-* to pull a single implementation and keep
libdbusmenu/libnotify explicit for bundling.
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* fix(ci): install gir1.2-dbusmenu-glib for AppImage typelib seed
Dbusmenu-0.4 is a required transitive typelib for AppIndicator; without
the GIR package the build fails the required-typelib check.
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* fix(appimage): require only one AppIndicator typelib variant
Runtime accepts AppIndicator3 or AyatanaAppIndicator3. Treat them as
alternates in the AppImage typelib check so single-stack build hosts
do not fail require_all.
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* fix(appimage): prefer Ayatana after rebase onto main
Align AppImage typelib seeding and GI smoke order with main's
Ayatana-first tray preference from #621/#638.
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* fix(appimage): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 typelib
Match tray_indicator.py's three-step fallback so AppImage builds and
GI smoke succeed on hosts that only ship AyatanaAppindicator3-0.1.
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* fix(main): accept lowercase AyatanaAppindicator3 in dep check
Align check_dependencies with tray_indicator.py and the AppImage GI
smoke path so a lowercase-only typelib host does not fail at startup.
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* docs(packaging): prefer Ayatana AppIndicator in Fedora/Arch hints
Follow-up to #621: align docs, AUR depends, package map, dependency
check messages, and troubleshooting copy with the Ayatana-first install
path so manual installs and AUR users get a working KDE tray icon.
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* style(main): black-format Ayatana install hint lines
CI black --check failed on the multi-line logger.error calls for the
Fedora/Arch package hints.
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* Fix missing KDE tray icon by preferring Ayatana AppIndicator
Fedora and Arch installs pull libappindicator-gtk3, Canonical's original
AppIndicator library that hasn't had a real release since ~2013. It loads
fine and Indicator.new_with_path()/set_status() run without raising, but
it never registers a StatusNotifierItem with KDE's StatusNotifierWatcher,
so the tray icon silently never shows up on Plasma. Confirmed on Fedora 44
/ Plasma 6.7 by checking RegisteredStatusNotifierItems over D-Bus directly
before and after the fix.
The actively maintained Ayatana fork registers correctly and is already
what the Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE and Gentoo branches of install.sh
prefer. Reorder the gi import in tray_indicator.py to try
AyatanaAppIndicator3 first and fall back to the legacy AppIndicator3
typelib only if neither Ayatana variant is available.
Update install.sh so Fedora and Arch installs pull the Ayatana package
too, via a shared install_preferred_appindicator() helper that falls back
to the legacy package if Ayatana isn't in the repos (e.g. RHEL/CentOS
without EPEL).
* Add tests for the AppIndicator/Ayatana import fallback chain
The reordered try/except in tray_indicator.py wasn't exercised by the
existing tests: they replace gi.repository with a MagicMock, which
auto-creates any attribute on access and so can never raise the
ImportError the fallback chain is built to catch.
Add a small test class that swaps in a plain object exposing only a
chosen subset of AppIndicator symbols, so importing anything else raises
a real ImportError, and verify each of the three branches (Ayatana,
lowercase Ayatana variant, legacy AppIndicator3) resolves correctly.
* Retry Ayatana install even when legacy AppIndicator is already present
install_preferred_appindicator() previously skipped the Ayatana install
whenever either package was already present, so re-running install.sh
on an existing Fedora/Arch setup with libappindicator-gtk3 from a prior
install would never pick up Ayatana, leaving the KDE tray broken for
exactly the users this fix targets. Now it only short-circuits when
Ayatana itself is installed, tries Ayatana first regardless of legacy
presence, and only falls back to a warning about the already-installed
legacy package if the Ayatana install fails.
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* docs(web): refresh screenshots for v0.15 sidebar settings UI
Recapture product and settings gallery shots against the searchable
sidebar settings dialog, keeping the previous asset filenames and
exact pixel dimensions with wallpaper padding around each window.
* fix(web): correct screenshot semantics after adversarial review
Keep the existing transcription and tray images because the replacements did not
show their claimed flows. Populate the Logs dialog and unlock Advanced settings
so those refreshed images demonstrate the features described by the gallery.
* fix(web): retake screenshots as square crops with uniform padding
Resize settings dialogs to a near 1:1 window, capture with ~28px wallpaper
padding on all sides, open About from the tray menu, and skip redoing the
awkward XFCE system-tray asset.
* docs(web): retake v0.15 screenshots on GNOME (light/dark)
Window-only captures from Ubuntu/GNOME at 960x720 for settings and
logs, with matching dark variants under screenshots/dark/. Replace the
old Shortcuts shot with Performance to match the sidebar.
* feat(web): theme-aware light/dark screenshot switching
Serve paired GNOME captures and swap them with the site theme via
dark:hidden / hidden dark:block. Replace Shortcuts gallery entry with
Performance to match the v0.15 sidebar.
* docs(web): refresh screenshots after About moves into Settings
Rebase onto main brought the in-app update checker: About is now a
sidebar settings page. Recapture light/dark GNOME panels at 960x720 and
update gallery copy/metadata accordingly.
* docs: use single screenshot source for README and website
Point README images at web/public/screenshots so product shots live in
one place, drop the unused resources/screenshots tree (including the old
demo video and about-updates set), and replace the missing shortcuts
shot with performance.
* docs(web): refresh light/dark screenshots and product grid
Replace the screenshot set with fresh captures for both themes, and
lay out the three Product shots in a single equal-height row.
* fix(web): align screenshot metadata, sizes, and theme loading
Restore dictation copy for the 00-transcription asset, set width/height
from the recaptured PNGs, preload only the light next/image twin when
priority is set, and eager-load both theme variants by default so dark
mode does not flash empty on first toggle.
* fix(web): show full settings screenshot without crop
Use object-contain so the homepage settings dialog fits the frame
instead of object-cover clipping the sidebar.
