From 9e8050bd486ce45290142ce5964ea4753c72fd7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland <roland@learningselfreliance.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:12:45 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] controller: restore Desktop toggle state when a start/stop
 request fails

Greptile P1: on failure the status poll never re-syncs (the desktop did
not change), so the toggle stayed disabled until remount.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/src/hooks/customHooks.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/src/hooks/customHooks.js b/app/src/hooks/customHooks.js
index deccb9ce..cff3e751 100644
--- a/app/src/hooks/customHooks.js
+++ b/app/src/hooks/customHooks.js
@@ -1227,6 +1227,7 @@ export const useDesktop = () => {
     }, [status?.desktop_status]);
 
     const localSetDesktop = async (running) => {
+        const previous = on;
         setOn(null);
         try {
             if (running) {
@@ -1242,6 +1243,9 @@ export const useDesktop = () => {
                 description: e.message || 'Could not start/stop the desktop. See server logs.',
                 time: 5000,
             });
+            // The desktop did not change, so the status poll will not re-sync `on`;
+            // restore it or the toggle stays disabled.
+            setOn(previous);
         }
     }