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Hit this on Ubuntu 24.04 / GNOME 46 under Wayland: opening the More menu on the recording HUD only shows the bottom couple of rows, everything above is cut off. Same menu also lists German as "de" rather than "Deutsch".

The clipping is a window bounds problem. With no mouse passthrough the HUD is a plain 860x160 window and the popovers render inside it, so a menu taller than the window just gets cut. The More menu needs roughly 510px with ten locales and there's about 150px of room.

There is already code to grow the window for exactly this, but the call sits behind process.platform !== "linux" inside a branch you only reach when isHudOverlayMousePassthroughSupported() is false, which is platform === "linux". So it can never run, and NON_PASSTHROUGH_HUD_EXPANDED_HEIGHT_DIP was doing nothing.

Deleting that guard is the obvious fix and it's wrong. Growing on hover shifts the bar out from under the cursor, that fires mouseleave, the window shrinks, the bar lands back under the cursor, repeat. That's #891. Wayland makes it worse because compositors ignore client-side moves, so a window that grows keeps its top-left pinned and extends downward, dragging the bar with it. Worth knowing if you go looking: after setBounds, getBounds() still reports the bottom-anchored position you asked for while the bar visibly slides down, so the main process can't tell the reposition was refused.

So I stopped resizing for menus at all and reserved the room up front instead, 160 to 560 (a 400px menu card, ~16px of offsets, ~96px of bar and padding). The bar renders at the bottom edge of the window so it stays put, and the space above it is transparent and already free for the menu to open into. Nothing resizes, so nothing moves, on X11 or Wayland. I bumped the expanded height used by the webcam preview from 540 to 680 so it still adds room on top of the new baseline, and setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded lost its last caller so it's gone.

The locale label is unrelated but it's the same menu. MorePopover had its own Record<string, string> map with no de entry, while SettingsPanel had a near-identical map that did have it. Merged them into one LOCALE_LABELS in src/i18n/config.ts typed Record<AppLocale, string>, so a missing label is a build error now instead of a row that prints its own locale code.

One trade-off to call out: the fallback window is transparent but still swallows clicks on Linux (#861), and a 560px tall one swallows more than a 160px one. I'd take that over the bar jumping on every Wayland setup, but say so if you disagree. The real answer is passthrough on Linux, which is #861 and not this PR.

tsc, biome lint and format, and i18n:check are all clean, full vitest run is 1084 passing, and I added a test that fails if the compact height ever drops below what a full-height menu needs so this can't quietly come back. Checked by hand on GNOME 46 Wayland.

Also, #876, #863, #799 and #705 all touch HUD popover clipping on Linux. #876 in particular solves this with a menu-open IPC signal plus a Wayland resize anchor; this is just the smaller "don't resize at all" version. Happy to close it if you'd rather take that one.

Without mouse passthrough the HUD is an ordinary 860x160 window, and the
popovers render inside it, so any menu taller than the window loses its top
rows. The More menu is the obvious victim: with ten locales it needs roughly
510px and only about 150px were available.

An expand-on-interaction path already existed, but the call sat behind
`process.platform !== "linux"` inside a branch that is only reachable when
`isHudOverlayMousePassthroughSupported()` is false, which is exactly
`platform === "linux"`. The condition could never be true, so the window never
grew and the expanded height went unused.

Simply removing that guard is not enough. Growing the window on hover moves the
bar out from under the pointer, which fires mouseleave, which shrinks it back
under the pointer again, and the HUD oscillates (webadderallorg#891). Wayland makes it worse:
compositors ignore client-side moves, so a window that grows keeps its top-left
pinned and drags the bar down with it instead of extending upward. That was
confirmed on GNOME 49 under mutter, where getBounds() reports the requested
bottom-anchored position while the bar visibly moves down instead.

Reserve the headroom once, at creation, and never resize for menus. The bar
renders at the bottom edge of the window, so it stays where it was and the
transparent space above it is already free for menus to open into. Nothing
resizes, so nothing can move, on X11 or Wayland.

Compact height goes from 160 to 560 (a 400px menu card, 16px of offsets and
about 96px of bar and padding), with a test that fails if it ever drops below
what a full-height menu needs. The expanded height used by the floating webcam
preview moves to 680 so it still adds room on top of that. The hover path now
documents that it deliberately does not resize, and
setHudOverlayFallbackExpanded goes away with its last caller.
The HUD language menu listed German as "de". MorePopover kept its own
`Record<string, string>` label map that had no `de` entry, so the lookup fell
through to the raw locale code. SettingsPanel had a second copy of the same map
which did include German, typed as `Record<AppLocale, string>`.

Keep one map, in `src/i18n/config.ts` next to `SUPPORTED_LOCALES`, and have both
menus read from it. Typing it as `Record<AppLocale, string>` means adding a
locale without a label is a compile error rather than a menu row that renders
its own locale code, so the two cannot drift apart again.
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The change increases non-passthrough HUD fallback heights, removes hover-based Linux resizing, updates related bounds tests, and centralizes native locale labels for two language selectors.

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HUD fallback bounds

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Fallback sizing and hover handling
electron/hudOverlayBounds.ts, electron/hudOverlayBounds.test.ts, electron/windows.ts
Compact and expanded fallback heights increase. Tests update expected positioning and containment behavior. Linux keeps reserved bounds during hover instead of resizing the HUD window.

Shared locale labels

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Locale label contract and consumers
src/i18n/config.ts, src/components/launch/popovers/MorePopover.tsx, src/components/video-editor/SettingsPanel.tsx
LOCALE_LABELS now provides typed native names for all supported locales. Both language selectors use the shared mapping.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 685b8

The updated language selectors will show the zh-CN option with Traditional Chinese characters instead of its expected Simplified Chinese native label. This is a minor presentation defect and should be corrected before release.

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nl: "Nederlands",
ko: "한국어",
"pt-BR": "Português",
"zh-CN": "簡體中文",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the Simplified Chinese label for zh-CN.

Line 43 uses Traditional Chinese characters in 簡體中文. The native label for zh-CN should be 简体中文.

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-	"zh-CN": "簡體中文",
+	"zh-CN": "简体中文",
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"zh-CN": "簡體中文",
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