fix(rog-control-center): show window when started in background with nothing to stay alive

[plastininikolay]

Description

With startup_in_background: true but run_in_background: false and the global shortcut off, ROGCC starts hidden and the main loop quits on its first pass (~0.4s), so the app exits without ever being seen.

Now, if the window has never been shown (AppState::StartingUp) and nothing can keep the app alive in the background, the window is shown instead of quitting. Once the window has been opened and closed, the existing quit behaviour is unchanged. This also covers the case where the shortcut is enabled but the portal ends up Unassigned/Unavailable at startup.

Fixes #210

Tested Hardware & Environment

• ASUS Laptop Model: ROG Flow X13 GV302XV
• Linux Distribution: Fedora 44 (KDE Plasma, Wayland)
• Kernel Version: 7.2.7-200.fc44

Tested with enable_global_shortcut: false (run_in_background / startup_in_background):

• false / true: before the fix it exited after 0.4s; now the window opens and the app stays running
• false / false and true / true: unchanged, the window opens or the app stays in the background
• false / true, then close the window: the app exits as before

Verification and testing:

• I have performed a self-review of my code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (n/a)
• My code follows the style guidelines of this project (cargo fmt --all -- --check)
• My changes generate no new warnings (cargo clippy --all -- -D warnings/cargo check --all-targets): cargo clippy -p rog-control-center --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings is clean. The workspace-wide run fails on the existing asusctl example anime-diag (manual_slice_fill, clippy 1.98), which is unrelated.
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes (cargo test --all): 129 passed with --exclude rog_simulators. anime_sim does not link here (a local SDL dependency issue, unrelated).
• Cranky with 0 warning (cargo cranky) for rog-control-center

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rog-control-center/src/window.rs (2)

25-26: LGTM!

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93-104: LGTM!

rog-control-center/src/main.rs (1)

307-307: LGTM!

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• Bug Fixes
  • The app window now appears if startup is still in progress when the app is configured not to run in the background. In other states, the app continues to quit as before.

Walkthrough

When background operation is disabled and no enabled shortcut keeps the app alive, the startup loop shows the window if the app is still starting. In other states, it requests quit and exits the loop.

Changes

Startup window handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle startup before exit rog-control-center/src/main.rs	The loop requests Show while the app is StartingUp. In other states, it retains the quit request and loop exit.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: rog-control-center, fix

Suggested reviewers: scardracs

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the affected component and the main fix: showing the window when startup occurs in the background without a process keep-alive condition.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the fix, preserved behavior, linked issue, test environment, configuration coverage, and verification results. It follows the repository template sufficiently.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #210 requires the app to show its window when run_in_background and the global shortcut cannot keep the app alive during startup. In rog-control-center/src/main.rs, the startup path requests…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes add startup-only window handling in rog-control-center/src/main.rs and rog-control-center/src/window.rs. This directly supports issue #210, including the queued-command race that could…

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In `@rog-control-center/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 304-311: Use a startup-only window command for the `StartingUp`
branch in the worker, and handle it in the window command dispatcher by showing
the window only if the current app state is still `StartingUp`. Keep ordinary
`WindowCommand::Show` behavior unchanged so tray actions can reopen a closed
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rog-control-center/src/main.rs (1)

304-311: LGTM!

[Ghoul4500]

This reads to me like a workaround to the issue than a fix. A proper fix may be to allow running in background when startup in background is true. Or similarly to some existing toggle options, we can disable certain options when another is enabled. But this would be a bigger development I would like to sort out in the work of the new UI

Also we don't accept fully vibecoded PRs. If you are not confident in being able to give us a proper fix, you can leave the issue for us to fix. If you want to give this a shot, I give you permission to use AI to find the real issue but I expect you to plan this out yourself and understand the code well.