Fix the collapsed cat window on Linux, warn about the compositor
The CatDefs singleton did not resolve on the reporter's Linux build, which showed up as "property mood of object CatDefs is not a function". The same lookup failure made CatDefs.aspect undefined, so the cat window's height became NaN and the cat rendered as a moving line. The mug survived because its height used a literal ratio. The singleton is gone rather than repaired, since nothing in it had to be shared. The mood name now comes from C++, derived from the enum key, so there is one source of truth instead of a list in QML that had to match. Window sizes now follow the implicit size of the drawing they contain, so the proportions live in the one file that defines them. Also for X11: TNCat now warns, naming Xfce's compositor setting, when its window comes up without an alpha channel, which is what a missing compositor looks like and why the mug had a black background. Opaque mode no longer hides the chip and the mug. TNCAT_DEBUG=1 logs window geometry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ otool -L build/tncat.app/Contents/MacOS/tncat | grep -o 'Qt[A-Za-z]*\.framework'
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| `TNCAT_OVERLAY=1` | Forces the screen-filling overlay layout that Wayland needs, for testing it on X11. |
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| `TNCAT_OPAQUE=1` | Paints a solid background instead of relying on transparency. Use when no compositor runs and the cat sits in a black box. |
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| `TNCAT_POSE=Sitting` | Freezes the cat in one mood. Handy for screenshots. Accepts any `CatController::Mood` name. |
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| `TNCAT_DEBUG=1` | Logs the cat window's geometry and the screen it sits on, every time either changes. First thing to try when a window comes up the wrong size. |
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| `QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software` | Qt Quick's software rasteriser, for machines without a usable OpenGL driver. `Shape` falls back to its geometry renderer on its own. |
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## Two window layouts
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@@ -94,6 +95,22 @@ Overlay mode switches on automatically on Wayland. `TNCAT_OVERLAY=1` turns it on
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anywhere for testing. It is not the default elsewhere because macOS ignores the
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input mask, which would make the overlay swallow every click on the desktop.
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## Xfce and X11
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This is the main target. Two things to know.
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**Transparency needs a compositor.** Without one, X11 has no alpha channel to
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composite against and the transparent window background renders as a black box
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around the cat. In Xfce it is one checkbox: Settings, Window Manager Tweaks,
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Compositor, Enable display compositing. TNCat prints a warning naming that
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setting when its window comes up without an alpha channel. `TNCAT_OPAQUE=1`
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paints a solid background instead, which is usable but not pretty.
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**Keeping the cat on top.** The default is a frameless `Qt::Tool` window that
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stays on top. If the window manager puts it behind other windows or shows it in
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the taskbar, `TNCAT_X11_BYPASS=1` makes it an override-redirect window that the
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window manager does not manage at all.
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## Running on a HEIDENHAIN control
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Untested on real hardware so far. What the code already does for that target:
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