Name the macOS app NVIDIA PAIR in Finder, the Dock, and the menu bar

README.md

@@ -180,10 +180,12 @@ removes its firewall rules, unregisters its privileged helper, and then removes
 the application:
 
 ```bash
-sudo "/Applications/PAIR.app/Contents/Resources/installer-tools/uninstall-macos.sh"
+sudo "/Applications/NVIDIA PAIR.app/Contents/Resources/installer-tools/uninstall-macos.sh"
 ```
 
-Add `--purge` to remove your data as well. Dragging PAIR to the Trash instead
+An install from before the app was renamed is still called `PAIR.app`; use
+`/Applications/PAIR.app` in the path instead. Add `--purge` to remove your data
+as well. Dragging PAIR to the Trash instead
 leaves the privileged helper registered, so use the uninstaller.
 
 Your data means settings, logs, cluster identity and certificates, and any engine

desktop/electron-builder.config.ts

@@ -56,12 +56,16 @@ const osSegment =
               : null
 
 const output = osSegment ? `release/${pkg.version}/${osSegment}` : `release/${pkg.version}`
-// Only Windows uses the display name as the packaging product name (drives NSIS
-// branding; the install dir and executable are pinned to APP_EXECUTABLE_NAME via
-// win.executableName). macOS and Linux keep the technical name so the app bundle
-// (`PAIR.app`) and Linux install dir (`/opt/PAIR`) stay stable — existing
-// generated CLI launchers embed those absolute paths.
-const packagingProductName = osSegment === 'windows' ? APP_DISPLAY_NAME : APP_EXECUTABLE_NAME
+// Windows and macOS use the display name as the packaging product name. On
+// Windows it drives the NSIS branding; the install dir and executable are pinned
+// to APP_EXECUTABLE_NAME via win.executableName. On macOS it sets CFBundleName,
+// and mac.executableName names the bundle, `NVIDIA PAIR.app`: those are what
+// Finder, the Dock, Launchpad, Spotlight, and the menu bar show, and
+// CFBundleDisplayName alone is ignored there. Linux keeps the technical name so
+// its install dir stays `/opt/PAIR`, which the packaged `/usr/bin/nvpair`
+// wrapper embeds.
+const packagingProductName =
+    osSegment === 'windows' || osSegment === 'mac' ? APP_DISPLAY_NAME : APP_EXECUTABLE_NAME
 
 function packagingPlatform(): SupportedPlatform {
     const platform =
@@ -393,7 +397,9 @@ const config: Configuration = {
         afterRemove: 'scripts/build/linux/after-remove.sh'
     },
     mac: {
-        executableName: APP_EXECUTABLE_NAME,
+        // electron-builder names the bundle after the executable, so this is
+        // what makes it `NVIDIA PAIR.app`; see packagingProductName.
+        executableName: APP_DISPLAY_NAME,
         extendInfo: {
             CFBundleDisplayName: APP_DISPLAY_NAME
         },

desktop/scripts/build/macos/uninstall.sh

@@ -30,7 +30,18 @@ case "${1:-}" in
     ;;
 esac
 
-APP_PATH="/Applications/PAIR.app"
+# The bundle this script ships in, three levels above Contents/Resources/
+# installer-tools. It is found rather than named because installs exist under
+# two names: the bundle is `NVIDIA PAIR.app`, and one installed while it was
+# still `PAIR.app` keeps that name, since Squirrel.Mac updates a bundle in place.
+APP_PATH="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../../.." && pwd -P)"
+case "$APP_PATH" in
+  *.app) ;;
+  *)
+    echo "run this from inside the app bundle: <app>.app/Contents/Resources/installer-tools/$(basename "$0")" >&2
+    exit 2
+    ;;
+esac
 # Bundle id used to key the macOS framework state cleaned up below (the .dmg
 # leaves no pkg receipt to forget).
 PACKAGE_ID="com.nvidia.nvpair"
@@ -50,11 +61,15 @@ fi
 APP_SUPPORT="$target_home/Library/Application Support"
 
 echo "Stopping NVIDIA PAIR processes..."
+# The app process is named by the bundle's own executable, read rather than
+# assumed for the same reason APP_PATH is.
+APP_EXECUTABLE="$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print :CFBundleExecutable' "$APP_PATH/Contents/Info.plist" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+if [ -n "$APP_EXECUTABLE" ]; then
+  pkill -TERM -x "$APP_EXECUTABLE" 2>/dev/null || true
+fi
 # Keep this list in sync with MODULAR_RUNTIME_BINARIES and
-# MODULAR_BUNDLED_BINARIES in src/shared/constants/modular-binaries.ts, plus the
-# Electron app process.
+# MODULAR_BUNDLED_BINARIES in src/shared/constants/modular-binaries.ts.
 for proc in \
-  "PAIR" \
   "nvpair-tui" \
   "nvpair-proxy" \
   "ollama-proxy" \

scripts/wipe-app-data.sh

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #
 # Explicit exclusions (never add): ~/.ollama, ~/.lmstudio, external engine
 # installs, and the application install tree (Program Files / /opt/PAIR /
-# PAIR.app).
+# the macOS app bundle).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 set -uo pipefail