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cmux drives Ghostty occlusion only from in-window portal visibility (setVisibleInUI). The visible tab of a miniaturized window, a window fully covered by other windows, or a window on an inactive Space therefore keeps a live draw cadence and a warm Metal swap chain (~40MB per surface), and RendererRealizationController never reclaims it because its portal stays "visible". Upstream Ghostty forwards NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification to ghostty_surface_set_occlusion (BaseTerminalController.windowDidChangeOcclusionState), which core-side releases the surface's GPU resources, stops the CVDisplayLink, and drops renderer-thread QoS.

This PR ports that behavior into cmux's effective-visibility model:

  • GhosttyNSView observes NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification for its current window (rebinding in viewDidMoveToWindow; a nil-window reparenting transition keeps the last state, so portal moves cannot flap occlusion, which is why the old view-level no-op existed).
  • TerminalSurface gains rendererWindowVisible; occlusion, presentation, and releaseRenderer() protection now key off portal AND window visibility (isRendererEffectivelyVisible). A window hide occludes the core surface and stamps the reclamation clock; a show lifts occlusion or replays the existing rebuild transaction if the renderer was reclaimed while hidden.
  • RendererRealizationController feeds effective visibility to the planner, so surfaces in hidden windows age out of the warm set and their swap chains are released after the idle threshold. Memory-pressure passes may now also reclaim them.
  • Visibility-derived occlusion requests (portal reveal, canvas viewport entry) go through applyVisibilityOcclusion, which folds in window visibility, so an agent/socket-driven workspace switch inside a hidden window cannot un-occlude it.

Why

Ports the one memory-relevant upstream macos/ technique cmux lacked (audited against upstream main 88f57ee66e). Core-side savings per surface in a hidden window: draw loop paused, display link stopped, and with reclamation the full Metal swap chain/IOSurface freed. Multi-window and multi-Space setups benefit the most.

Verification

  • New TerminalSurfaceWindowOcclusionTests (6 tests) cover: hide occludes and unprotects the renderer, show replays presentation after reclaim, show without reclaim only lifts occlusion, hidden-at-creation defers first presentation, portal reveal inside a hidden window stays occluded, hidden portal ignores window transitions.
  • Existing TerminalSurfaceRendererPresentationTests, TerminalSurfacePortalHostVacancyTests, TerminalSurfaceTeardownCallbackLifetimeTests pass (27 tests).
  • Note: TerminalSurfaceRuntimeTeardownFenceTests.swift fails to compile under swift test with Swift 6.2.4/6.3.3 at current main (pre-existing sending diagnostic, unrelated to this PR); it was temporarily sidelined for the local package-test runs only.
  • Tagged cloud build gwocl, dogfooded via debug socket: miniaturize window, confirm occlusion + reclamation in logs, unminiaturize, confirm content restores without flash.

Notes

A/B benchmark (identical workload)

Same scripted workload on main (gwbase) and this branch (gwocl), both Debug, same GhosttyKit pin 5045df3f2: 3 windows, 3 named workspaces each, split grids, seq 1 20000 seeded in every surface, 12 surfaces total, measured with footprint after a 30s settle.

state main this PR delta
windows covered (steady) 547 MB 303 MB -244 MB (-45%)
app hidden (cmd+H, +15s) 546 MB 320 MB -226 MB
windows restored on screen 654 MB 615 MB parity

GPU-side rows (IOSurface + IOAccelerator + owned graphics): 291 MB on main vs 26 MB on this PR while covered. On restore the candidate re-realized exactly its 6 portal-visible surfaces (renderer_realized=6, renderer_presented=6) and returned to parity, so the reclaim is fully reversible.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved terminal rendering when application windows are minimized, covered, hidden, or shown again.
    • Deferred rendering while a window is hidden and restored presentation when it becomes visible.
    • Improved renderer memory reclamation for surfaces that are not effectively visible.
    • Reduced visibility flicker during terminal view reparenting.
  • Diagnostics

    • Added renderer visibility and presentation details to terminal diagnostics.

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Walkthrough

Terminal renderer visibility now combines portal visibility with hosting-window visibility. Window occlusion updates renderer state, presentation, and reclamation. Tests cover hidden-window transitions, renderer release, rebuilding, and deferred presentation.

Changes

Window-aware terminal renderer visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Visibility state and renderer contract
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface+Renderer.swift, Sources/App/RendererRealizationSurface.swift, cmuxTests/RendererRealizationPlannerTests.swift
TerminalSurface tracks hosting-window visibility. Renderer lifecycle code derives effective visibility from portal and window visibility.
Window occlusion observation
Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, Sources/Canvas/CanvasPaneContent.swift
The terminal view observes NSWindow occlusion changes. Portal rendering and unmount paths use window-aware occlusion handling.
Renderer presentation and reclamation
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface+Renderer.swift, Sources/App/RendererRealizationController.swift, Sources/TerminalController.swift
Renderer creation and presentation defer while the window is hidden. Effective visibility controls warm-set ranking and renderer reclamation. Diagnostics report renderer lifecycle and visibility state.
Window occlusion validation
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/CmuxTerminalTests/PresentedSurfaceFixture.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/CmuxTerminalTests/TerminalSurfaceWindowOcclusionTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/GhosttyRuntimeTestStubs/*, cmuxTests/RendererRealizationPlannerTests.swift
Fixtures, tests, and runtime stubs verify occlusion state, deferred presentation, renderer release, and renderer rebuilding across window transitions.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f8cc6

The PR reduces memory use for terminals in hidden or covered windows and restores them when visible again. A remaining risk is that window-only visibility changes may fail to schedule reclamation, allowing hidden surfaces to retain resources longer than intended; new user-facing V2 errors also remain English-only where localization is required. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before considering the change fully merge-ready.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NSWindow
  participant GhosttyTerminalView
  participant TerminalSurface
  participant RendererRealizationController
  participant GhosttyRenderer
  NSWindow->>GhosttyTerminalView: Emit occlusion state change
  GhosttyTerminalView->>TerminalSurface: Set renderer window visibility
  TerminalSurface->>GhosttyRenderer: Apply effective occlusion
  RendererRealizationController->>TerminalSurface: Read effective visibility
  RendererRealizationController->>GhosttyRenderer: Present or reclaim renderer
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the primary change: occluding and reclaiming terminal renderers when the hosting window is hidden.
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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production changes do not introduce a listed actor-isolation failure. RendererRealizationSurface and RendererRealizationController are explicitly @MainActor. The new TerminalSurface …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The PR does not introduce or materially expand a listed blocking or timing primitive. The production diff adds state checks and a main-queue AppKit notification observer, and changes visibility predic…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. This PR does not change browser socket automation. ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift and its policy tests are unchanged. The only Sources/TerminalController.swift change adds four renderer…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds renderer visibility state, window occlusion notification handling, renderer reclamation checks, canvas occlusion calls, and diagnostic fields. It adds no `RestorableAgen…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The diff adds window/portal visibility handling, renderer presentation/reclamation logic, and debug fields. The new in-memory visibility and last-visible timestamp values feed only renderer life…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not change TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime code. The complete feature diff contains Swift files plus C/H test stubs only. No covered fixed sleep, …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff does not introduce a complexity failure under the rule. RendererRealizationController still performs the existing linear passes over the surface registry; the PR only chang…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The pull-request diff adds no background Dispatch queues, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler APIs, or fire-and-forget Tasks. The only new callback is an `NSWindow.didChangeOcclusio…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The PR diff adds no @concurrent annotation and introduces no nonisolated async function or async heavy-work call site. The new renderer APIs are synchronous and explicitly @MainActor; the …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The diff keeps the new renderer visibility logic in the existing Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal SwiftPM target. The app-target changes only adapt the protocol, consume effective visibility in the…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The PR diff from main (ef4437d) to HEAD changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, or .gitignore files. The only Xcode project change removes source-file refere…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The PR diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, file logging, or stdout/stderr diagnostics. The added renderer fields in the debug terminals payload are boolean state value…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The pull-request diff adds no user-facing error, alert, command-error, or recovery text. The only production output addition is four boolean renderer-state fields in the existing debug terminals…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR diff adds renderer visibility APIs, window-occlusion logic, tests, comments, C test hooks, and boolean diagnostic payload fields. It adds no user-facing Swift text, localization keys, str…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The PR does not introduce a SwiftUI state or layout pattern covered by the rule. The added renderer state is AppKit/runtime state in TerminalSurface, GhosttyNSView, and renderer-controller c…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The new observer is a required AppKit bridge for NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification. The code documents its purpose, binds it in viewDidMoveToWindow, removes it during rebinding an…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The PR does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. Production changes in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift observe occlusion on the existing hosting NSWindow; they do not cre…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR diff contains only 12 Swift/C source and test paths. The two added files are deliberate test fixtures and tests, and the remaining changes are product source or test-stub code. No logs, s…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds no test-named member, test-build-guarded accessor, or test-only wrapper. applyVisibilityOcclusion and setRendererWindowVisible have runtime callers in `CanvasP…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed PASS — The production Swift diff adds applyVisibilityOcclusion, isRendererEffectivelyVisible, and setRendererWindowVisible inside the TerminalSurface extension. It adds rendererWindowVisible…
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PASS. The production changes do not introduce a listed actor-isolation failure. RendererRealizationSurface and RendererRealizationController are explicitly @MainActor. The new TerminalSurface mutating APIs are @MainActor, and the new visibility property is stored on the existing non-Sendable model rather than on a shared Sendable reference type. Changed accesses occur from the @MainActor controller, TerminalController, canvas mount, or AppKit view paths. No new value model, async service protocol, or background access to a UI-bound store was introduced. Added test fixtures and test models are allowed by the check.

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The PR does not introduce or materially expand a listed blocking or timing primitive. The production diff adds state checks and a main-queue AppKit notification observer, and changes visibility predicates. No added Swift line contains semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or manual locks. Existing primitive counts in the changed production files are unchanged. The new test scaffolding uses no blocking or timing primitive.

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PASS. This PR does not change browser socket automation. ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift and its policy tests are unchanged. The only Sources/TerminalController.swift change adds four renderer diagnostics fields; it does not add or move a browser.* command, WebKit wait, worker router, or main-actor route. Therefore no stated browser-automation failure condition is introduced.

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PASS. The production diff adds renderer visibility state, window occlusion notification handling, renderer reclamation checks, canvas occlusion calls, and diagnostic fields. It adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), transcript, trajectory, baseline, JSON/JSONL, directory-scan, or per-record syscall load. The socket-related change in TerminalController.swift only reads renderer state booleans. Existing agent-index load call sites remain outside the changed files and are not worsened by this PR.

Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness

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PASS: The diff adds window/portal visibility handling, renderer presentation/reclamation logic, and debug fields. The new in-memory visibility and last-visible timestamp values feed only renderer lifecycle decisions. No changed production path replaces a fresh authoritative read in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path.

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PASS: The pull request does not change TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime code. The complete feature diff contains Swift files plus C/H test stubs only. No covered fixed sleep, timer, polling, or wall-clock delay was introduced.

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PASS. The production diff does not introduce a complexity failure under the rule. RendererRealizationController still performs the existing linear passes over the surface registry; the PR only changes visibility predicates from portal visibility to effective visibility. The planner’s existing sort and linear selection are unchanged. Other production changes add constant-time visibility checks, notification registration, state fields, and diagnostic fields. No new nested full-collection scan, per-target rescan, repeated hot-path sort/filter, or in-memory join is present. The added fixtures and tests are explicitly exempt.

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PASS. The pull-request diff adds no background Dispatch queues, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler APIs, or fire-and-forget Tasks. The only new callback is an NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification observer using queue: .main, which is an allowed AppKit/OS callback boundary. The added tests use @MainActor and do not add production async patterns.

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PASS: The PR diff adds no @concurrent annotation and introduces no nonisolated async function or async heavy-work call site. The new renderer APIs are synchronous and explicitly @MainActor; the changed renderer-controller logic remains in the existing @MainActor controller, and its existing async tasks only coordinate delayed UI evaluation. The added test fixture and tests are also @MainActor. Therefore, no condition in swift-concurrent-annotation.md is introduced.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

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PASS: The diff keeps the new renderer visibility logic in the existing Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal SwiftPM target. The app-target changes only adapt the protocol, consume effective visibility in the existing reclamation controller, update Canvas wiring, observe NSWindow occlusion, and add diagnostics. These are app-lifecycle, AppKit, and Ghostty integration glue. The added package tests and test fixtures are allowed cases. No new reusable domain logic is introduced in the app target without a package boundary.

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PASS. The PR diff from main (ef4437d) to HEAD changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, or .gitignore files. The only Xcode project change removes source-file references from cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj; it does not change packageReferences or SwiftPM package requirements. Therefore no package-local lockfile or root Xcode Package.resolved update is required under the rule.

Full details: Cmux Swift Logging

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PASS: The PR diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, file logging, or stdout/stderr diagnostics. The added renderer fields in the debug terminals payload are boolean state values, not logging statements, and expose no secrets or personal data. Test-only hooks and fixture output are allowed by the rule.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

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PASS: The pull-request diff adds no user-facing error, alert, command-error, or recovery text. The only production output addition is four boolean renderer-state fields in the existing debug terminals diagnostic payload; these do not expose vendor names, provider details, credentials, tokens, headers, IDs, raw upstream messages, or payload dumps. Vendor references, test hooks, comments, and the test environment key occur only in tests or developer documentation/comments, which the rule allows.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

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PASS. The PR diff adds renderer visibility APIs, window-occlusion logic, tests, comments, C test hooks, and boolean diagnostic payload fields. It adds no user-facing Swift text, localization keys, string catalogs, Info.plist entries, or web UI/message changes. The new debug.terminals fields are protocol/debug metadata and use literal keys, which the rule permits.

Full details: Cmux Swiftui State Layout

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PASS: The PR does not introduce a SwiftUI state or layout pattern covered by the rule. The added renderer state is AppKit/runtime state in TerminalSurface, GhosttyNSView, and renderer-controller code. TerminalSurface already conforms to ObservableObject; the existing @Published members are unchanged. The diff adds no @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, @ObservedObject, @Bindable, @Observable, GeometryReader, lazy/list row store references, or render-time state writes. The GhosttyNSView changes occur in AppKit window lifecycle and notification handlers, which the rule allows.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

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PASS. The new observer is a required AppKit bridge for NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification. The code documents its purpose, binds it in viewDidMoveToWindow, removes it during rebinding and deinitialization, and uses no sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, or waits. TerminalSurface remains the owner of renderer lifecycle state. isRendererEffectivelyVisible centralizes the portal-and-window invariant, while the renderer controller and canvas use shared surface APIs. The initial window-state sync is lifecycle initialization, not duplicate behavior wiring. Test synchronization remains test-only.

Full details: Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts

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The PR does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. Production changes in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift observe occlusion on the existing hosting NSWindow; they do not create a window, assign an identifier, or alter Cmd+W routing. The only new NSWindow construction is in Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/CmuxTerminalTests/PresentedSurfaceFixture.swift, which is an explicitly allowed test-only fixture. No added production lines use cmuxAuxiliaryWindowIdentifiers, cmuxWindowShouldOwnCloseShortcut, or custom close-shortcut handling.

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Full details: Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source

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PASS. The production Swift diff adds no test-named member, test-build-guarded accessor, or test-only wrapper. applyVisibilityOcclusion and setRendererWindowVisible have runtime callers in CanvasPaneContent and GhosttyTerminalView. isRendererEffectivelyVisible is consumed by RendererRealizationController for presentation and reclamation. The new rendererWindowVisible state supports that runtime behavior. Test fixtures and Ghostty test stubs remain under Tests/, and the existing *ForTesting helpers in TerminalSurface+Debug.swift are unchanged from the base revision.

Full details: Cmux No Ambient Global State

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PASS — The production Swift diff adds applyVisibilityOcclusion, isRendererEffectivelyVisible, and setRendererWindowVisible inside the TerminalSurface extension. It adds rendererWindowVisible as instance state on TerminalSurface and windowOcclusionObserver as instance state on GhosttyNSView. No new file-scope API function, top-level mutable variable, static-only namespace, or runtime singleton appears in the production changes. The added free functions are private test helpers or C test stubs, which are outside this production Swift check.

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Comment on lines +4577 to +4585
windowOcclusionObserver = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
forName: NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification,
object: window,
queue: .main
) { [weak self] notification in
guard let occludedWindow = notification.object as? NSWindow else { return }
self?.terminalSurface?.setRendererWindowVisible(
occludedWindow.occlusionState.contains(.visible)
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P2 Badge Include window visibility and miniaturization in the renderer predicate

The new state is derived solely from occlusionState.contains(.visible), but that is not a complete window-visibility predicate: ordered-out or miniaturized windows can be non-visible without this bit being updated in the same transition (and the existing simulatorHostWindowIsVisible helper explicitly checks isVisible and isMiniaturized as well). In those cases rendererWindowVisible remains true, so the reclamation controller continues treating every portal-visible surface as effectively visible and does not reclaim its renderer. Compute this from the window's visibility/miniaturization state as well, and observe the corresponding miniaturize/deminiaturize transitions.

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Comment on lines +4582 to +4588
guard let occludedWindow = notification.object as? NSWindow else { return }
self?.terminalSurface?.setRendererWindowVisible(
occludedWindow.occlusionState.contains(.visible)
)
}
terminalSurface?.setRendererWindowVisible(
window.occlusionState.contains(.visible)

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P2 Badge Include explicit window visibility in the renderer predicate

For windows that are ordered out or miniaturized, occlusionState.contains(.visible) is not a complete visibility predicate and may remain true across the transition, leaving rendererWindowVisible true and preventing renderer reclamation. The new observer and initial synchronization both derive the state solely from this bit, with no isVisible/isMiniaturized checks or corresponding transition handling; the current diff therefore still leaves hidden-window surfaces rendering and resident in these cases. Fresh evidence in this revision is the new rendererWindowVisible state being assigned only from occlusionState at both the notification and initial-binding paths.

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Comment on lines +257 to +260
// Effective visibility folds in the hosting window's occlusion state,
// so the visible tab of a miniaturized or fully covered window ages out
// of the warm set and becomes reclaimable like any hidden tab.
for surface in surfaces where surface.isRendererEffectivelyVisible {

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '95,140p;235,285p;370,420p' Sources/App/RendererRealizationController.swift

printf '%s\n' '--- TerminalSurface+Renderer.swift ---'
sed -n '80,120p;245,285p' Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface+Renderer.swift

printf '%s\n' '--- GhosttyTerminalView.swift window-visibility path ---'
sed -n '4550,4600p' Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift

printf '%s\n' '--- All direct callers and notification posts ---'
rg -n -C 8 'setRendererWindowVisible|terminalPortalVisibilityDidChange' Sources Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources

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printf '%s\n' '--- Renderer state transitions ---'
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  'func noteBecameVisibleForRendererReclamation|func setVisibleInUI|func setOcclusion|rendererLastVisibleAt|rendererPortalVisible' \
  Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface+Renderer.swift \
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Schedule reclamation after window-only visibility changes.

setRendererWindowVisible(_:) stamps rendererLastVisibleAt, but its NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification caller does not post .terminalPortalVisibilityDidChange. The controller therefore does not schedule the exact reclaim deadline until its safety timer runs. Route window visibility changes through the evaluation path and add a window-only visibility test.

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In `@Sources/App/RendererRealizationController.swift` around lines 257 - 260,
Update setRendererWindowVisible(_:) and its
NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification handling to route window-only
visibility changes through the evaluation path and post
.terminalPortalVisibilityDidChange so reclamation is scheduled at the exact
deadline. Add coverage for window-only visibility changes while preserving the
existing effectively visible surface filtering.

The visible tab of a miniaturized, fully covered, or inactive-Space window
kept a warm Metal swap chain and draw cadence because occlusion was driven
only by in-window portal visibility. Fold NSWindow occlusion state into an
effective-visibility signal: the hosted view observes
NSWindow.didChangeOcclusionStateNotification per window (nil-window
reparenting keeps the last state so portal moves cannot flap occlusion),
TerminalSurface gates occlusion, presentation, and renderer release on
portal AND window visibility, and RendererRealizationController ages
hidden-window surfaces out of the warm set so their swap chains are
reclaimed after the idle threshold. Ports upstream Ghostty's
windowDidChangeOcclusionState -> ghostty_surface_set_occlusion behavior.
renderer_realized, renderer_presented, renderer_portal_visible, and
renderer_window_visible let the debug socket prove window-occlusion
reclamation during dogfood instead of inferring it from memory graphs.
The controller iterates the protocol, not TerminalSurface; add
isRendererEffectivelyVisible to the protocol and the planner test fake.
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P2 Badge Synchronize window visibility before attaching the surface

When a terminal view is first attached to a miniaturized, covered, or otherwise occluded window, attachToView and runtime creation run before this initial setRendererWindowVisible call. Since rendererWindowVisible defaults to true, rendererRuntimeSurfaceDidCreate can mark the renderer presented and lift occlusion into a window that is not visible; the later call only occludes it and does not undo the presentation. This defeats the intended hidden-at-creation path and can allocate/draw a renderer unnecessarily until reclamation runs. Seed the window visibility before attaching/creating the runtime, or explicitly release/normalize after discovering the window is hidden.

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…occlusion .visible bit (fixes the display-liveness CI regression from #10815) (#10922)

* Present terminal renderers in on-screen windows that never report an occlusion .visible bit

#10815 gates renderer presentation on NSWindow.occlusionState.contains(.visible). On the
CI display-churn harness the app runs on a CGVirtualDisplay where AppKit never raises that
bit for a window that is ordered in and drawing, so the renderer was never presented and
DisplayResolutionRegressionUITests counted 0 terminal presents (the step last passed before
#10815 landed). One rule now decides window visibility (TerminalRendererWindowVisibility):
the occlusion bit or key window wins; until a window has reported .visible at least once
its ordinary on-screen state (visible, not miniaturized, on the active Space) is trusted.
Once the bit has been seen the occlusion verdict is honored, so miniaturized, covered, and
inactive-Space windows still release GPU as #10815 intended. Key/main transitions and
screen changes re-evaluate the rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: irx keepalive waits for the first pong with a deadline (reintroduced by #10889; the determinism gate blocks main)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: clear the Swift warning buckets over budget on this base (irx statics/captured self, surfaces socket shared access)

Same fixes as #10905, carried here so the warning-budget gate lets the display step run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
525352e ios: match launch screen logo to the App Store icon glyph (manaflow-ai#10913)
a1f0cf9 Present terminal renderers in on-screen windows that never report an occlusion .visible bit (fixes the display-liveness CI regression from manaflow-ai#10815) (manaflow-ai#10922)
86061c8 iOS: show the unread count on workspace indicators, in parity with macOS (manaflow-ai#10791)
5cacd70 fix: clear three Swift warning buckets over the CI budget on main (manaflow-ai#10905)
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