Can someone please disable backgroundThrottling to prevent missed timers and notifications?

Your Environment

• Version used: 7.10.1 (but probably all versions)
• Operating System and version: Windows 10 Pro (20H2)

Expected Behavior

Get all notifications/sounds (idle, pomodoro, etc) in time.

Current Behavior

Randomly, timers go into negative values and don’t trigger notifications/sounds nor update the tray progress until you unminimize the window using the hotkey. I think it might be because of backgroundThrottling mentioned in this stackoverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59610324/12781687 I can’t build the repo, so if someone could please add this to electron/main-window.ts for the next build, it would be great.

mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
...
    webPreferences: {
...
        backgroundThrottling: false,
    },
});

From electron docs:

backgroundThrottling boolean (optional) - Whether to throttle animations and timers when the page becomes background. This also affects the Page Visibility API. Defaults to true.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Can’t reproduce reliably, best chance is to let the timer run. And if you keep your ram full to 90% or so for a few minutes, you increase the chances of it staying unresponsive even after you no longer overload ram/cpu. (Kinda like chrome, so not sure this backgroundThrottling would totally fix it, but might help.)

[johannesjo]

Thanks for opening this up! I’ll add this setting and it should be available for the next snap edge release (and for self compiled builds from the master branch). I hope there not to bad negative side effects (such as the increased resource usage), so feedback on this would be very welcome!

[RationalFragile]

Yes, this issue should be closed. I couldn’t wait 4 months for the release, so what I realized is that I can use the installer version of super productivity and then I would be able to extract the .asar and modify it directly; and that’s what I did.

So I already tested it for a month or so and it solved the issue of missed timers. And didn’t introduce any issues. Anyway, thanks.