Adom Desktop

The Windows desktop app. Install this .exe once on the PC you want a cloud AI to reach.

It runs in your system tray, connects to your Adom relay, and exposes every desktop verb: screenshots, file transfer, shell commands, native app and browser control, plus the KiCad and Fusion 360 bridges.

This is the app for your Windows machine. It is NOT the container CLI. To drive this desktop FROM a Linux cloud container, use the Install box above (adom-wiki pkg install adom/adom-desktop), which installs the Linux CLI and the AI skills.

What changed in 1.9.95: fresh-VM auto-login now brings the app window to the foreground before the sign-in countdown, and the container skills package is leaner.

Blind pass-through of bridge verb arguments: the CLI no longer reshapes or drops a bridge verb's args, so all pup browser_ verbs (window sizing, foreground, and any future arg) now reach the bridge intact.

UI polish: the shell auto-approve banner now shows a human-readable h/m/s countdown plus the absolute time it expires, and the Runtimes panel shows each runtime interpreter path in its tooltip.

Fix a node and python availability gate that ignored the AD-managed portable runtime, so on a fresh box every managed-runtime bridge verb except the status verb wrongly returned node_not_found. Node and Python bridges are now fully usable on a machine with no system runtime.

After the user clicks Sign In and approves in their browser, the Adom window comes to the foreground once so they land back on the app. Only when running standalone, never when embedded under Hydrogen Desktop.

Managed-runtime fix: put the managed Node or Python dir on a bridge child process PATH so npm postinstall scripts and bare node calls resolve, letting a source-only Node bridge install from the wiki on a machine with no system Node.

No-UAC fix: stop writing HKLM at launch, so no elevation prompt and no duplicate Add or Remove entry on fresh installs.

Fix duplicate Add/Remove Programs entry: AD marks its own HKLM Uninstall key SystemComponent so only the NSIS installer entry is visible (AD key kept hidden for the Win11 taskbar icon)

Reject the Windows Store python.exe stub as a system runtime: detect_system now requires a real version, so a stub-only box downloads the portable no-UAC Python (shows version + adom-managed) instead of pinning a dead stub as ready

Non-blocking runtime gate: a bridge that needs Node or Python before prewarm finishes now gets a runtime_warming poll-and-retry response instead of a silent block; race-safe, system runtimes still resolve instantly

Installer slimmed ~2MB by stripping bundled KiCad consumer docs and demo assets (code kept, offline-safe); new GUI Runtimes panel showing managed Node/Python; prewarm now runs every launch so the panel is accurate on restart

Managed portable Node and Python runtimes for bridges with no UAC prompts; loopback bridge binding avoids Windows Firewall prompts; background runtime prewarm; new runtimes status verb

Installer exe now shows the Adom brand icon instead of the generic NSIS icon. WebView renderer fix for headless and Server VMs (disable GPU, renderer sandbox, and RendererCodeIntegrity) so Adom Desktop launches on GPU-less Azure VMs.

GPU-aware WebView rendering: detect a real hardware GPU (DXGI) and keep acceleration on real machines; force software rendering ONLY on headless/Server VMs (no GPU) where WebView2's GPU renderer crashes to a white window. Fixes fresh Azure VM installs that showed a white window then died.

Trace the full window-show decision into startup.log (setup entry, embedded state, stay_hidden, window created?, forced-show result) to debug a fresh-VM no-window case; force-show the main window on a standalone launch.

Bridge console: don't clobber an active text selection on refresh (copy-exact-range now works). Pup bundled seed → 1.2.0 (prewarm chrome-for-testing). Homepage github→wiki.adom.inc across bridge.json. (Incl. 1.9.47 bridge_readiness + cold-start prewarm + node_modules-at-spawn.)

bridge_readiness probe + two-tier cold-start prewarm (runtime auto-install, host-app detect-only); cache node bridges get node_modules at spawn; corrected bridge.json schema; bridge-author consolidated into the Bridge SDK.

Peer screenshot view: Refresh button + auto-refresh dropdown (Off/2s/5s/10s/30s); tooltips on the peer buttons; 'Boot' relabeled 'Boot off relay' with a 'does NOT reboot the computer' confirmation.

Per-peer screenshot/control block (block a shared machine from screenshotting yours); auto cloud-server discovery after sign-in + prominent Sign-in CTA; fresh-install taskbar icon fix; exit-when-HD-exits default off for standalone; paste-add-server accepts the {servers:[…]} wrapper; bridge skill propagation (sync_skills).

v1.9.33: actionable toasts (foreground click + approve-via-toast), Bypass Permissions rename, AD-core status hints; signed Windows installer for laptop + HD-embed