[eric] desktop: orphaned fullscreen tile sealed, all chrome hides while fullscreen, native lights defer to card lights, wash is a GPU-cached texture, tile menu clamps at edges, chat embed exclusive to full view, workflows one-click zones

frontend/src/shared/state/dashboardLayoutSlice.ts

@@ -714,6 +714,9 @@ const dashboardLayoutSlice = createSlice({
         if (!liveIds.has(id)) {
           state.closedCardPositions[id] = { ...state.cards[id] };
           delete state.cards[id];
+          // A dead card must never keep owning a tile: an orphaned 'fullscreen' entry hides ALL chrome until reload.
+          delete state.tiledCards[id];
+          delete state.minimizedCards[id];
         }
       }
 
@@ -1900,8 +1903,13 @@ export const reopenLastClosed = createAsyncThunk(
 );
 
 export const selectFullscreenCardId = (state: { dashboardLayout: DashboardLayoutState }): string | null => {
-  const entry = Object.entries(state.dashboardLayout.tiledCards).find(([, zone]) => zone === 'fullscreen');
-  return entry ? entry[0] : null;
+  const s = state.dashboardLayout;
+  const entry = Object.entries(s.tiledCards).find(([, zone]) => zone === 'fullscreen');
+  if (!entry) return null;
+  const id = entry[0];
+  // Belt over the reducer hygiene: an entry whose card is gone (any removal path) must not hold the app in fullscreen.
+  const exists = id in s.cards || id in s.viewCards || id in s.browserCards || id in s.notes || id in s.workflowCards;
+  return exists ? id : null;
 };
 
 export default dashboardLayoutSlice.reducer;

frontend/src/shared/state/subscriptionsSlice.ts

@@ -112,15 +112,21 @@ export const { setSubscriptionStatus, markSubscriptionConnected, hideProviderHea
 const EMPTY_CONNECTIONS: SubscriptionConnection[] = [];
 
 /** Unwraps the polymorphic `providers` shape (modern object vs legacy array). */
+let p_lastRows: SubscriptionConnection[] | null = null;
+let p_lastFiltered: SubscriptionConnection[] | null = null;
+
 export function selectSubscriptionConnections(
   state: WithSubscriptions,
 ): SubscriptionConnection[] {
   const providers = state.subscriptions.status?.providers;
   if (!providers) return EMPTY_CONNECTIONS;
   const rows = Array.isArray(providers) ? providers : (providers.connections ?? EMPTY_CONNECTIONS);
-  // The free-trial/Pro lane is an OpenSwarm-managed router row, not a connection the USER made; counting it made a fresh trial look "connected" (dead Connect-beat rows, premature onConnected, phantom green rings).
+  // The free-trial/Pro lane is an OpenSwarm-managed router row, not a connection the USER made; counting it made a fresh trial look "connected" (dead Connect-beat rows, premature onConnected, phantom green rings). Memoized per rows identity so useSelector consumers don't churn.
+  if (rows === p_lastRows && p_lastFiltered) return p_lastFiltered;
   const filtered = rows.filter((p) => !/\(OpenSwarm-managed\)/.test(p.name ?? ''));
-  return filtered.length === rows.length ? rows : filtered;
+  p_lastRows = rows;
+  p_lastFiltered = filtered.length === rows.length ? rows : filtered;
+  return p_lastFiltered;
 }
 
 export function hasAnyActiveSubscription(state: WithSubscriptions): boolean {