Approving Remote Control Request Hangs Application

[benkaiser]

Description

Accepting the dialog to allow remote control permissions hangs the entire application. Below is a screenshot of the application in it's stuck state.

Current behavior

App freezes.

Expected Behavior

App should continue to work, enabling remote control for requested user.

Possible Solution

I tried executing the electron instance with devtools opened, but trying to record a performance trace was stuck on the first initializing step, it was really stuck whatever it is that is causing it. The only thing to do is quit the application and re-open.

Steps to reproduce

1. Run the electron client locally changing this line to true to enable remote control
2. Run either with npm start or npm run dist (and then copy to Applications folder)

Environment details

MacOS Ventura 13.0.1

[benkaiser]

I understand this is a disable feature / likely not officially supported. But would be great to get to the bottom of what broke this functionality.

[milaq]

Same behavior on Windows with ENABLE_REMOTE_CONTROL = true;

[saghul]

We haven't found the time to look into this yet, sorry!

[ed76]

is there any news on this? does it work again with the current version?

[bilogic]

After building e64c8ac in Windows 10/11, this is a screenshot of the frozen application with a translucent dialog trying to fade out

[bilogic]

I propose renaming the title of this issue to Approving Remote Control Request Hangs Application

[bilogic]

Any interest in funding someone to fix this?

[saghul]

@hristoterezov @horymury can either of you PTAL?

[bilogic]

anything?

[marclaporte]

Related: 0b88a78

[bilogic]

No, that is unrelated. Remote control was disabled by default.
This issue is about remote control being broken when enabled.

[saghul]

@hristoterezov @horymury Guys, can either of you PTAL?