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Fixes #12204. Inactive terminals now keep full contrast by default, while explicit Ghostty dimming settings continue to work. Fresh-install adaptive colors use Catppuccin Latte/Mocha, including the fallback when theme files are unavailable. Terminal surfaces stay clipped to their panes during resizing and portal rebinding, with terminal dimensions derived from the actual scroll viewport.

This includes follow-up #12295, an authoritative-snapshot correction to the existing wheel-scroll test fixture, and independently specified fallback palette coverage. The fallback regression was committed before its fix and failed for both light and dark on the pre-fix commit.

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  • Tagged app rebuilt and installed for pushed HEAD 24125c7e4a.
  • Xcode Release terminal-core suite: all 313 tests in 55 suites passed (exit 0).
  • macOS 15 GhosttySurfaceOverlayTests: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/34558113554 (test and summary steps passed).
  • The original wheel test failed identically on the parent commit and the original follow-up head; its fixture now supplies the same authoritative response as the production input path.
  • Fleet runtime check: three terminals and a focused browser survived 12 window resizes and workspace switching. Terminal output and live geometry remained intact; inspected before/after screenshots show containment and full inactive-pane contrast.
  • Built app contains both managed theme resources, matching their tracked contents. Package-lock policy, test wiring, and whitespace checks pass.
  • Localization audit: no new user-facing strings; existing theme names and resources are reused.

Production requires the normal macOS app release. No backend deployment, database migration, secret, or remote feature-flag change is needed. Managed defaults apply only when adaptive defaults are enabled and the user's effective Ghostty configuration has no directives. Explicit opacity remains authoritative; a fill-only setting retains Ghostty's normal dimming behavior.

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The change updates inactive split appearance defaults, preserves fill-only dimming, and changes managed themes to Catppuccin. It also strengthens terminal clipping and centralizes resize geometry synchronization across AppKit views.

Changes

Inactive split appearance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Opacity defaults and directive resolution
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Sources/CmuxTerminalCore/Config/GhosttyConfig.swift
GhosttyConfig defaults unfocusedSplitOpacity to 1.0. Fill-only configuration uses 0.7, while explicit opacity directives take precedence. Managed theme names and fallback colors use Catppuccin Latte and Catppuccin Mocha.
Inactive split appearance coverage
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Tests/CmuxTerminalCoreTests/GhosttyConfigInactiveSplitAppearanceTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Tests/CmuxTerminalCoreTests/GhosttyConfigManagedDefaultAppearanceTests.swift
Tests cover default appearance, themes, palettes, fills, opacity, directive order, and managed theme names.

Terminal surface clipping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Viewport and host clipping
Sources/GhosttyScrollView.swift, Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, Sources/TerminalWindowPortal.swift
Terminal viewport, surface, and portal host views enable or reassert view-level and layer-level clipping.
Surface geometry synchronization
Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift
Surface autoresizing is cleared, clipping is reasserted during geometry passes, and frame sizing is shared by resize and scroller-style updates.
Scrollback test surface
cmuxTests/TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift
The scrollback pinning test now uses the authoritative scrollbar surface test double.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a5a3c

A configuration with nan or infinity for inactive-split opacity can produce incorrect inactive-terminal appearance. Reject non-finite values before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 23 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR includes changes that do not implement inactive-pane dimming in [#12204]. GhosttyTerminalView.swift, GhosttyScrollView.swift, and TerminalWindowPortal.swift add live-resize clipping, auto… Remove the unrelated clipping, geometry, and test-double changes from this PR, or move them to a separately scoped issue or pull request. Keep the inactive-appearance implementation and its tests in this PR.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (23 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding objectives in [#12204]. The default unfocusedSplitOpacity is 1.0, so inactive content keeps full contrast. Fill-only configuration retains Ghostty's 0.7 default. E…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No actor-isolation failure is introduced. GhosttyConfig remains the existing non-Sendable value model; the PR only changes its defaults and adds a private Bool parser flag. Its existing `nonisol…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS — The production diff adds no semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or manual locks. The existing NSLock, DispatchQueue.main.sync, and delayed-dispat…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not change browser socket automation. The authoritative diff changes only Ghostty configuration/tests and terminal view, scroll view, portal, and test files. It does not ch…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The production diff does not add or move an expensive agent-history load. It changes terminal appearance defaults, fallback theme text, clipping flags, frame synchronization, and `scrollView.layoutSub…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached value in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. The only existing cache-sensitive code is GhosttyConfig.load; its ca…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The review-scoped diff contains only Swift files. It changes no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime script, so runtime-no-hacky-sleeps.md does not apply. The rule explici…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff adds no nested scans, per-target rescans, sorting/filtering, joins, or other slower collection algorithm in production code. GhosttyConfig.parse adds only constant-time …
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative Swift diff adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Task, Combine, or completion-handler constructs. The changed layout code only adds synchronous AppKit clipping, sizing, a…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed diff introduces no async, await, @concurrent, or new nonisolated work. The added synchronizeTerminalContentFrames() and changed geometry methods are synchronous. The clippin…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The production config and parsing changes are in the existing CmuxTerminalCore SwiftPM target (GhosttyConfig.swift), with package tests added beside them. The app-target changes are limited …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only Swift source and test files. No Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, Xcode project, workspace, or workflow file changed. Therefore, it introduces no SwiftPM dependenc…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The reviewed diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, stdout/stderr, or ad hoc file-logging statements. Existing diagnostics in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, including `in…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes terminal appearance defaults, Ghostty config parsing, and clipping. The added production lines contain no user-facing errors, alerts, command output, API error bodies, or recovery…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds no UI, menu, alert, tooltip, error, web, metadata, or changelog copy. The changed Catppuccin Latte and Catppuccin Mocha values are exact Ghostty theme identifiers us…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request does not introduce a covered SwiftUI state or layout pattern. The changed UI code modifies AppKit classes (NSScrollView, NSView, and WindowTerminalPortal) for clipping an…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The diff does not introduce a prohibited timing or blocking repair path. The added hasUnfocusedSplitOpacityDirective flag remains private state in GhosttyConfig, which owns the parser and th…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes Ghostty configuration, tests, terminal views, and clipping in the existing WindowTerminalPortal; it does not add or materially change a standalone NSWindow,…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes seven .swift source or test files only. Six are existing source/test files, and the one added file is a hand-written test under `Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Tes…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed No prohibited test/debug seam was added to production Swift source. The only visibility change is cmuxDefaultFallbackConfigContents in `Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Sources/CmuxTerminalCore/Confi…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only scoped members: hasUnfocusedSplitOpacityDirective is a private instance property on GhosttyConfig, synchronizeTerminalContentFrames() is private on `GhosttySu…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the two main changes: terminal color behavior and pane clipping.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the changes, rationale, testing, manual validation, deployment impact, and configuration behavior. It does not include the template's Demo Video section or checklist, …
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Explanation

The PR includes changes that do not implement inactive-pane dimming in [#12204]. GhosttyTerminalView.swift, GhosttyScrollView.swift, and TerminalWindowPortal.swift add live-resize clipping, autoresizing, and geometry behavior for stale drawables. cmuxTests/TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift changes a test double without changing the issue behavior. These changes address separate resize and test-maintenance concerns.

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Follow-up: align Codex theme defaults and prevent terminal surface bleed

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@austinywang austinywang changed the title Preserve inactive terminal colors by default Fix terminal colors and pane clipping Sep 11, 2026

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718-718: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-finite opacity values before recording the directive.

Double(value) accepts nan and infinity. This branch records those values as explicit, so a later unfocused-split-fill directive skips the 0.7 default. For nan, unfocusedSplitOverlayOpacity also remains non-finite because its clamping does not normalize NaN. Rejecting non-finite values preserves finite inputs and matches the parser's invalid-value handling.

Suggested fix
 case "unfocused-split-opacity":
-    if let opacity = Double(value) {
+    if let opacity = Double(value), opacity.isFinite {
         unfocusedSplitOpacity = opacity
         hasUnfocusedSplitOpacityDirective = true
     }

Add a regression test for unfocused-split-opacity = nan followed by a valid fill directive.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
72ce5e9 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#12210 from manaflow-ai/issue-12204-inactive-pane-colors
39bbf00 feat(web): add Founding Chromium Engineer role to jobs page (manaflow-ai#12248)
a34d44c devbox: promote sh-cd099a44912648399e0420df9b4e7f4f (daemon 897bb7a, theme-portable attach) (manaflow-ai#12304)
021537a fix: keep main windows out of fullscreen tiling (manaflow-ai#12298)
24125c7 test: update managed appearance snapshots for Catppuccin
a5a3c0f fix: match fallback colors to managed Catppuccin themes
c042f83 test: cover Catppuccin colors without theme resources
4916e7c test: use authoritative scrollbar response in wheel regression
3774a64 Complete macOS localization parity and validate plural catalogs (manaflow-ai#12169)
897bb7a Cloud panes: keep the local Ghostty theme on attach (manaflow-ai#12259)
cde2e36 web: drop the status read after Freestyle create and warm the database during auth (manaflow-ai#12260)
18e6282 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#12295 from manaflow-ai/fix/codex-default-theme-compositing
fe2292b fix: align managed terminal defaults with Codex theme
27bbb39 test: require the Codex Catppuccin default theme
84283f4 fix: size terminal frames from the tiled clip viewport
caee136 fix: keep portal terminal contents clipped during resize
454bd7a fix: preserve inactive terminal colors by default
e577aa7 test: cover inactive split appearance defaults

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Inactive terminal pane dimming washes out colors in mixed split layouts

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