dark glass, the whole app: frost on every pane, and the periscope pattern for every glass bar the frost sits under - backdrop-filter black-flattens over see-through ground (measured 3-vs-40), so bars over frost blur a scroll-synced clone behind a static band cut instead; the bar moved out of the scroller (pane shell, inner .content keeping the closest-contract, the old negative-margin flow replayed by a spacer after the artist page's sticky physics named the scrollport padding sacred); painted pages declare data-painted and keep the real backdrop bar, which is how the artist hero runs under the glass again; np wash rides the scroll away and dissolves to frost like the album banner; perf measured to vsync - 142px blur wraps (27.9ms frames down to 6.9), idle scroll-gated reclones, clip-path band, content-visibility on library rows, async cover decode; mini frosts over the mini:glass channel and the rest-frame flags ride window config because the env-var lane dies on some webview2 runtimes

src-tauri/src/lib.rs

@@ -27,39 +27,6 @@ mod ytdlp;
 
 #[cfg_attr(mobile, tauri::mobile_entry_point)]
 pub fn run() {
-    // Two WebView2 presentation fixes, both delivered by env var because
-    // tauri.conf's additionalBrowserArgs never reaches the browser process
-    // (verified via its command line). Merge, don't clobber — dev launches
-    // carry the CDP port here. Both found 2026-08-26 via the dark-glass work:
-    //
-    // 1. NO delegated compositing: with it, DWM composes the webview's layers
-    //    at rest and blends semi-transparent darks in the wrong colorspace —
-    //    the app rested washed-out LIGHT and looked correct only while an
-    //    animation forced Chromium to compose in-process.
-    // 2. Force the sRGB color profile: on an HDR display the MAXIMIZED
-    //    window's rest path takes a different SDR-white tone mapping than
-    //    the animated path — covers blew out near-white at rest and snapped
-    //    correct on hover. One profile, one mapping, both paths agree.
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    {
-        const KEY: &str = "WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS";
-        let mut args = std::env::var(KEY).unwrap_or_default();
-        let mut ensure = |flag: &str, key: &str| {
-            if !args.contains(key) {
-                if !args.is_empty() {
-                    args.push(' ');
-                }
-                args.push_str(flag);
-            }
-        };
-        ensure(
-            "--disable-features=msWebOOUI,msPdfOOUI,msSmartScreenProtection,DelegatedCompositing",
-            "DelegatedCompositing",
-        );
-        ensure("--force-color-profile=srgb", "force-color-profile");
-        std::env::set_var(KEY, args);
-    }
-
     tauri::Builder::default()
         .manage(state::AppState::default())
         .setup(|app| {
@@ -256,23 +223,37 @@ pub fn run() {
             vocal_sep::vocal_sep_download,
         ])
         .run({
-            #[allow(unused_mut)]
             let mut context = tauri::generate_context!();
-            // Debug builds expose CDP on 9222 for instrumentation (see HANDOFF.md).
-            // wry always sets AdditionalBrowserArguments programmatically, so the
-            // WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS env var is ignored; the flag has
-            // to go through the window config. Explicit args replace wry's defaults,
-            // so those are restated here.
+            // Browser args ride the WINDOW CONFIG, nothing else: wry always sets
+            // AdditionalBrowserArguments programmatically, and at least WebView2
+            // 151.x then drops the WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS env var
+            // entirely — flags "delivered" that way vanish silently on some
+            // runtimes (they held on the home machine, gone on the work one).
+            // Verify in the browser process command line (Get-CimInstance
+            // Win32_Process), never by assumption. Explicit args replace wry's
+            // defaults, so those are restated. Two WebView2 presentation fixes
+            // live here (2026-08-26, the dark-glass work):
+            //
+            // 1. NO delegated compositing: with it, DWM composes the webview's
+            //    layers at rest and blends semi-transparent darks in the wrong
+            //    colorspace — the app rested washed-out LIGHT and looked correct
+            //    only while an animation forced Chromium to compose in-process.
+            // 2. Force the sRGB color profile: on an HDR display the MAXIMIZED
+            //    window's rest path takes a different SDR-white tone mapping
+            //    than the animated path — covers blew out near-white at rest
+            //    and snapped correct on hover. One profile, one mapping, both
+            //    paths agree.
+            //
+            // Debug builds add CDP on 9222 for instrumentation (see HANDOFF.md).
+            let base = "--disable-features=msWebOOUI,msPdfOOUI,msSmartScreenProtection,DelegatedCompositing \
+                 --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required \
+                 --force-color-profile=srgb";
             #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
-            {
-                for window in &mut context.config_mut().app.windows {
-                    window.additional_browser_args = Some(
-                        "--disable-features=msWebOOUI,msPdfOOUI,msSmartScreenProtection \
-                         --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required \
-                         --remote-debugging-port=9222"
-                            .into(),
-                    );
-                }
+            let args = format!("{base} --remote-debugging-port=9222");
+            #[cfg(not(debug_assertions))]
+            let args = base.to_string();
+            for window in &mut context.config_mut().app.windows {
+                window.additional_browser_args = Some(args.clone());
             }
             context
         })

src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         "minimizable": false,
         "alwaysOnTop": true,
         "shadow": true,
-        "backgroundColor": "#181818"
+        "transparent": true
       }
     ],
     "security": {