# Windows resident launcher

Version 0.1.7 adds a global launcher workflow. `Ctrl+Shift+Space` restores the
window and selects the search field. Escape dismisses a popover first, then
hides the native window. Closing the window also hides it, keeping prepared
search readers and the shortcut alive. Hidden audio/video previews pause.
The tray provides Show searchi and an explicit Quit action.

`--background` starts without showing the main window; a duplicate background
launch does not interrupt an existing session. Karl's Windows Dev installation
now has a login shortcut using this flag and the existing CPU-only VM wrapper.
Production acceleration remains automatic; the wrapper is a VM constraint.

Validation: three native instance tests and strict desktop Clippy passed.
Frontend build, 62 tests and formatting passed. The release executable compiled
and was installed as 0.1.7, then observed with `--background`. Settings remained
byte-identical after a consistent SQLite backup; database quick_check passed.
The updated normal speech runtime was verified/staged and passed its installed
self-test with forced CPU. The built-in key uses the existing focus handler.

Actual native keyboard/tray interaction was not automated; available computer
control does not support it in this session. These checks do not close broader
GPU, macOS, clean-machine or search-quality gates.

The final NSIS installer is published with
[v0.1.7](https://tea.karlcom.de/karl/searchi/releases/tag/v0.1.7), from application
commit `24e80edaf9c1a50cb3dde97ef21b211b52c66f73`: 101766307 bytes, SHA-256
`5ca8ad982113d086190ecf8ea684a504a4277099a377124bdffa8ca9fed6595e`.
Public full-byte download matched. Extracted speech inventory/provenance (31
records) and extraction helper (two records) passed. The normal installer exited
successfully on Windows Dev; installed executable matches extracted bytes:
`e0cef05acfcea8b2299f118daf3d866ca2f8950704c01d8673812b2ae0139185`.
The CPU-only wrapper and login shortcut were retained, and the app restarted
with `--background`. The prepared Google query worker was observed using CPU.