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Closes #1373. First native slice of the terminal-theme half of RFC #13353.

What changes

Before: Settings > Terminal > Theme had one "Choose…" button that opened cmux themes in a new terminal tab. There was no way to see or pick a theme without leaving Settings.

After: the Theme row shows the theme in effect ("Catppuccin Mocha", or "Light: X · Dark: Y" when they differ, or "Ghostty default colors"). Under it is a gallery:

  • A Light / Dark segmented control picks which appearance you are choosing for. It starts on the current system appearance, since cmux follows it.
  • With an empty search field, 12 curated cards (light and dark variants of Catppuccin, GitHub, Rose Pine, Gruvbox, TokyoNight and Nord), the ones matching the selected slot first.
  • The search field filters every theme in the same directories cmux themes lists (capped at 48 cards, with a "keep typing" hint past that).
  • Each card is drawn in the theme's own colors: its background, the theme name in its foreground color with a cursor block in its cursor color, and two rows of eight swatches for ANSI 0-15. The selected card gets the same accent border and tint as the App appearance picker; small "Light" / "Dark" badges mark the themes currently used for each side, and VoiceOver reads the same as the card's value.
  • Clicking a card reads the current managed block (so a cmux themes change made while Settings is open is kept for the other side), writes the new block, and reloads terminals right away (preview reloads are debounced like the CLI picker's). A Revert button appears after the first pick and writes back only the block's previous theme value, or removes the block if there was none; other edits to the file made in the meantime are kept.
  • Open in Terminal… keeps the cmux themes TUI as the secondary path, with the same accessibility identifier as the old button.

One write path

The block writer used to live privately in the CLI (CMUXCLI+ThemeSupport.swift). It now lives in CmuxFoundation and both cmux themes set/clear and the gallery call it:

  • CmuxManagedThemeBlock: pure block apply/remove/clear/read, the two-sided light:X,dark:Y encoder, and raw-value to light/dark parsing. LF and CRLF files both work; a CRLF file keeps CRLF endings.
  • CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile: read, write and clear of the block in one config file, plus reading and setting just the block's value. It refuses a theme value containing a newline.
  • GhosttyThemeDirectories: the theme directory list (GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR, the bundle, XDG_DATA_DIRS, Ghostty.app, ~/.config/ghostty/themes, cmux and Ghostty Application Support), used by both the CLI and the app.
  • GhosttyThemeCatalog: lists theme files in those directories.
  • GhosttyThemeColors: parses a theme file's background, foreground, cursor and palette for the cards.

One behavior fix came with the move: removing a block that sat between two user lines used to eat the newline on both sides and join those lines. The newline after the block is now kept.

Ghostty rejects a conditional theme that names only one side (#10068). The gallery always writes both sides: if the other side was unset, it gets the same theme. That matches #10358's encoder. This PR does not touch the CLI encoder, defaultThemePickerTargetMode or GhosttyConfig that #10358 changes, so the two should merge cleanly; once #10358 lands, the CLI's private encodedThemeValue/parseThemeSelection can call the shared CmuxManagedThemeBlock versions.

Host wiring

SettingsHostActions gains terminalThemeGalleryContext() (editable cmux Ghostty config for this bundle id, theme directories, a reader for the current theme value across the loaded config paths, current appearance) and terminalThemeConfigDidChange(phase:), which calls the same reloadGhosttyConfigurationForCmuxThemeSource path the cmux themes distributed notification uses. Package-only hosts return nil and see just the Open in Terminal button.

Verification

  • swift test in Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation passed the first revision's 12 theme tests. The CRLF, no-trailing-newline, block-only revert and directory-order tests added since have not run locally (this Mac is overloaded); CI runs them.
  • TerminalThemeGalleryModelTests (CmuxSettingsUI) cover pick writes, both-sides fill, no-op re-pick, revert after several picks, revert keeping later edits, revert deleting a file the gallery created, a pick reading a block changed by cmux themes, curated ordering per slot, and search capping. Not run locally; CI runs them.
  • lint-xcstrings.py, localization_catalog.py check and the Swift parse check passed. The app was not built or launched here; CI compiles it.

Localization: 13 new keys in the CmuxSettingsUI catalog, with all 20 of that catalog's locales. The Theme title and Light/Dark labels reuse existing keys.

Left out

  • A command palette / menu entry for the gallery (RFC follow-up).
  • Pinning the current theme into the curated grid when it isn't one of the 12. The row subtitle names it, and search finds it.
  • Cancel-on-close: picks apply immediately like other Settings changes, and Revert is the undo. Closing Settings keeps the last pick.
  • The out-of-box default theme is unchanged.
  • The CLI's lastThemeDirective and selection parsing stay where they are to avoid conflicting with Fix cmux themes single-sided Ghostty values (#10068) #10358.

Earlier attempts #699 (@lcamargof) and #1149 (@debgotwired) shaped the scope: #699 put a picker in Settings, #1149 a palette entry. No code from either was reused. This PR writes through the # cmux themes block instead of a separate UserDefaults override or a rewritten theme = line.

Changelog

Added: Settings > Terminal shows a theme gallery with live preview, separate light and dark themes, search over all bundled Ghostty themes, and Revert.

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Summary by cubic

Adds a theme gallery to Settings > Terminal so you can pick light and dark themes with live preview without leaving Settings. Closes #1373.

Theme gallery

  • The Theme row shows the theme in effect and gains Light/Dark slot pickers, a search field over every bundled Ghostty theme, and cards drawn in each theme's own colors.
  • Picking a card writes the managed # cmux themes block and reloads terminals immediately; Revert restores the block's previous value (or clears it), leaving edits made elsewhere in the file intact.
  • Picks re-read the current theme first so a cmux themes change made while Settings is open is not overwritten; Open in Terminal… keeps the cmux themes picker as the secondary path.

Shared write path

  • The block writer, theme catalog listing, theme directory resolution, and a new theme-file color parser move from the CLI into CmuxFoundation so cmux themes and the gallery share one implementation.
  • The block regex accepts CRLF line endings and keeps them on write; removing a block that sat between two user lines no longer joins those lines.
  • The theme reload path is now callable from Settings so picks preview live in terminals.

Written for commit cf26798. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a terminal theme gallery in settings with searchable themes, Light and Dark selections, and visual previews.
    • Theme changes preview in the terminal and can be reverted. Existing configuration is preserved when applying or undoing a selection.
    • Added localized gallery labels and status messages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved theme discovery and ordering, with duplicate names handled consistently.

Settings > Terminal > Theme now shows a grid of theme cards (background,
foreground, cursor and the 16 ANSI colors) with Light and Dark slots and a
search field over every bundled Ghostty theme. Picking a card writes the
managed `# cmux themes` block and live-previews; Revert restores the config
file as it was before the first pick. "Open in Terminal..." keeps the
`cmux themes` picker as a secondary path.

The block writer moves from the CLI into CmuxFoundation
(CmuxManagedThemeBlock, CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile) so `cmux themes` and the
gallery share one write path, along with the theme catalog listing and a
theme-file color parser. Removing a block that sits between two user lines no
longer joins those lines.

Closes #1373

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  • CLI/CMUXCLI+ThemeSupport.swift
  • CLI/CMUXCLI+Themes.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/CmuxManagedThemeBlock.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/GhosttyThemeCatalog.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/GhosttyThemeColors.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/GhosttyThemeDirectories.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/CmuxFoundationTests/TerminalThemes/CmuxManagedThemeBlockTests.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/CmuxFoundationTests/TerminalThemes/GhosttyThemeColorsTests.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Package.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Environment/SettingsHostActions.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Environment/TerminalThemeGalleryContext.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Models/TerminalThemeGalleryModel.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/TerminalSection.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/TerminalThemeGallery.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Tests/CmuxSettingsUITests/TerminalThemeGalleryModelTests.swift
  • Sources/AppDelegate.swift
  • Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift
📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds shared Ghostty theme discovery, color parsing, and managed-config operations. It adds a Settings gallery for light and dark themes with search, preview writes, revert support, and terminal configuration reloads.

Changes

Terminal Theme Gallery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared theme parsing and config operations
Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/CmuxFoundationTests/TerminalThemes/*, CLI/CMUXCLI+ThemeSupport.swift, CLI/CMUXCLI+Themes.swift
Shared utilities catalog theme files, parse theme colors and light/dark values, and manage the marked Ghostty config block. CLI theme discovery and managed override operations now use these utilities. Tests cover parsing, config operations, and catalog ordering.
Settings theme selection and reload state
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Environment/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Models/TerminalThemeGalleryModel.swift, Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Tests/CmuxSettingsUITests/TerminalThemeGalleryModelTests.swift
The model loads and filters themes, writes preview selections, snapshots prior config, and restores it on revert. Host actions provide gallery context and request preview or final reloads. Tests cover selection, preview, revert, and search behavior.
Settings gallery presentation and integration
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/TerminalSection.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/TerminalThemeGallery.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Package.swift
The terminal settings section uses the gallery row and view. The gallery presents theme cards, light/dark selection, search, loading and save states, and revert controls. Localized strings and the test target dependency support the gallery changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant TerminalThemeGallery
  participant TerminalThemeGalleryModel
  participant CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile
  participant HostSettingsActions
  participant GhosttyConfigurationReload
  TerminalThemeGallery->>HostSettingsActions: Request gallery context
  HostSettingsActions-->>TerminalThemeGallery: Return config, theme directories, current theme, and appearance
  User->>TerminalThemeGallery: Select a theme
  TerminalThemeGallery->>TerminalThemeGalleryModel: Select theme for active slot
  TerminalThemeGalleryModel->>CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile: Write managed theme value
  TerminalThemeGalleryModel->>HostSettingsActions: Request preview reload
  HostSettingsActions->>GhosttyConfigurationReload: Reload with preview source
  User->>TerminalThemeGallery: Revert selection
  TerminalThemeGallery->>TerminalThemeGalleryModel: Restore snapshot
  TerminalThemeGalleryModel->>CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile: Restore saved config contents
  TerminalThemeGalleryModel->>HostSettingsActions: Request final reload
  HostSettingsActions->>GhosttyConfigurationReload: Reload with final source
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bd485

Fix the failing lint check and prevent Revert from discarding later configuration edits before merging. The gallery also needs to preserve unrelated config text and discover themes in Ghostty’s macOS user directory.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bd485

Revert can discard terminal configuration edits made after a theme preview. The impact is confined to the user’s local configuration; the reviewed path does not establish remote access or elevated privileges.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Revert unconditionally restores a whole-file snapshot. A CLI command or other editor can change the configuration after the first preview, only for Revert to overwrite those changes—or delete a newly recreated file. This weakens preservation of unrelated settings, including any controls stored in that file.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated write and revert effects reach the current user’s Ghostty configuration shared by Settings and CLI. The inspected path does not establish a remote entrypoint or elevated filesystem authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Theme names originate in host-selected user or bundled theme directories. The shared writer blocks multiline values, but its read-modify-write and restore methods have no file-version check to distinguish the gallery’s changes from another writer’s.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Atomic replacement limits partial-file failures, but it does not preserve an edit made after the gallery’s snapshot; unconditional restore can cause configuration-control drift.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before Revert, detect intervening file changes and preserve unrelated edits, or report a conflict rather than replacing or deleting the entire current file.

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❌ Failed checks (5 errors, 2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ❌ Error The new TerminalThemeGalleryModel is @MainActor, but its nested Theme value model is not explicitly nonisolated. load() launches Task.detached and calls the nonisolated loadThemes, which… Mark TerminalThemeGalleryModel.Theme as nonisolated or move it to file scope as a nonisolated value type. Apply the same treatment to nested Slot and Results if they remain inputs or outputs of the nonisolated results helper. Keep…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ❌ Error The gallery uses an unsynchronized theme snapshot in a persistence and revert path. HostSettingsActions.terminalThemeGalleryContext() reads `GhosttyApp.userAppearanceConfigSummary().lastThemeDirecti… Re-resolve the effective current theme from the authoritative Ghostty config immediately before the first pick (and before later picks when no pending snapshot exists), or add an event/freshness mechanism that updates the model when config …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ❌ Error The new Settings search path filters the full theme collection on every SwiftUI body evaluation. TerminalThemeGalleryView.body reads model.results at line 95, and `TerminalThemeGalleryModel.result… Cache the computed gallery results or search index in TerminalThemeGalleryModel and update it only when the query or slot changes, preferably with debounced/cancellable search work. Ensure the implementation does not rescan all themes dur…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ❌ Error The new shared writer adds CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile.WriteError.multilineThemeValue. cmux themes set calls this writer through writeManagedThemeOverride, and CMUXTermMain prints uncaught erro… Catch errors from the shared theme write and clear operations at the CLI command boundary. Convert them to a generic message such as Couldn't save the terminal theme. Please try again. without interpolating or forwarding the underlying er…
Cmux Full Internationalization ❌ Error The PR adds 10 user-facing terminal theme-gallery localization keys in Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, and the new Swift UI consumes them throug… Add translated stringUnit entries for all 11 missing locale codes for each of the 10 new settings.terminal.themeGallery.* keys in Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. Keep the existing …
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR implements the gallery, light and dark slots, live preview, managed-block persistence, shared config writing, atomic writes, preservation of unrelated config, and automated tests for issue #137… Add a cancel or Settings-dismissal path that restores the first-pick snapshot and performs the final reload. Keep the explicit Revert action if required by the UI.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 32.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 56 functions across 15 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (18 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed files support issue #1373. The Foundation utilities centralize theme discovery, color parsing, managed-block handling, and atomic config writes. The CLI uses the shared managed-config path…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative diff changes terminal theme discovery, managed Ghostty config writing, Settings gallery UI, and local theme reload wiring. No changed path or added behavior targets Cloud termi…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The changed production Swift code adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, timer, or manual lock. TerminalThemeGalleryModel.load() uses `Task.d…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes terminal theme and Settings UI code only. The authoritative diff contains no browser.* commands, WebKit waits, socket-worker routing, or browser policy changes. The rule…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The changed gallery does not load agent history, transcripts, trajectories, workstream/event logs, or large agent-owned JSON/JSONL files. TerminalThemeGalleryModel.load() is @MainActor, but it per…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only Swift files and one .xcstrings localization file. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime script changes. The runtime …
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The diff adds no DispatchQueue, custom background queue, DispatchGroup, Combine state, or completion-handler API. TerminalThemeGalleryModel.load() uses an awaited Task.detached for file …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The diff adds no @concurrent annotation and no nonisolated async function. The only new async path is @MainActor TerminalThemeGalleryModel.load(). It performs theme catalog and file parsing insi…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The reusable terminal-theme domain logic is in the existing CmuxFoundation SwiftPM target (CmuxManagedThemeBlock, CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile, GhosttyThemeCatalog, and `GhosttyThemeColors…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR adds only a test-target reference to the existing local CmuxFoundation package in Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Package.swift; it does not add or change an external SwiftPM dependency. No p…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The PR adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, stdout/stderr, or Logger statements in changed Swift lines. The existing hostSettingsLogger declaration is unchanged and already uses `nonisola…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The new gallery model uses the modern Observation shape: @Observable with @State and @Bindable, not ObservableObject or @Published. The gallery adds no GeometryReader. Its ForEach …
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce an architectural-rethink violation. Theme writes and catalog discovery move into shared CmuxFoundation paths used by both CLI and gallery. The gallery keeps selection, snap…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds TerminalThemeSettingsRows and TerminalThemeGalleryView as views embedded in the existing Settings terminal section. It adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, `Windo…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All 17 changed paths are intentional Swift source, tests, package configuration, or a localization catalog for the terminal theme gallery. The authoritative diff contains no artifact-like directories …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed No prohibited test or debug seam was added. The changed production Swift sources contain no new #if DEBUG/test-build guard and no seam-named member. TerminalThemeGalleryModel state is consumed by …
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a native terminal theme gallery to Settings.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed summary, testing status, changelog entry, localization result, scope boundaries, and known limitations. It does not include the template's Demo Video section or Che…
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The PR implements the gallery, light and dark slots, live preview, managed-block persistence, shared config writing, atomic writes, preservation of unrelated config, and automated tests for issue #1373. TerminalThemeGalleryModel.revert() restores the first-pick snapshot. However, the gallery has no cancel or Settings-close restoration path. The PR explicitly leaves picks applied when Settings closes. This does not meet issue #1373's requirement that Cancel restore the previous config state.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 32.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 56 functions across 15 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The new TerminalThemeGalleryModel is @MainActor, but its nested Theme value model is not explicitly nonisolated. load() launches Task.detached and calls the nonisolated loadThemes, which constructs and returns [Theme] from a background context. This introduces the implicit-main-actor value-model issue covered by the rule. The repository already uses the required shape for this case: AgentResumeLaunchGuard.Claim is declared nonisolated inside a @MainActor type. The changed UI model itself is intentionally MainActor-bound, but the background-loaded value type is not.

Resolution

Mark TerminalThemeGalleryModel.Theme as nonisolated or move it to file scope as a nonisolated value type. Apply the same treatment to nested Slot and Results if they remain inputs or outputs of the nonisolated results helper. Keep only the mutable observable store and its UI state MainActor-isolated.

Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness

Explanation

The gallery uses an unsynchronized theme snapshot in a persistence and revert path. HostSettingsActions.terminalThemeGalleryContext() reads GhosttyApp.userAppearanceConfigSummary().lastThemeDirective once, and TerminalThemeGallerySettingsRows stores that context in @State for the model. TerminalThemeGalleryModel copies it into selection; select(_:) builds the value to write from that cached selection before any fresh theme read. Its context.configFile.readContents() call only snapshots file bytes for restore. If the config changes externally after context creation, or was absent then, the gallery can write a stale opposite-side theme and restore stale selection state. The changed code has no freshness check, event update, or documented degradation rationale. The theme-file list cache is only a transient UI cache and is not the failure.

Resolution

Re-resolve the effective current theme from the authoritative Ghostty config immediately before the first pick (and before later picks when no pending snapshot exists), or add an event/freshness mechanism that updates the model when config files change. Use that fresh value both to compute the raw value and to capture the revert selection. Treat an unavailable fresh read as an error instead of interpreting it as an empty selection. Keep the byte-for-byte readContents() snapshot for restoring the file.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The new Settings search path filters the full theme collection on every SwiftUI body evaluation. TerminalThemeGalleryView.body reads model.results at line 95, and TerminalThemeGalleryModel.results(in:query:slot:) runs themes.filter at line 159. themes contains every file found in the user and bundled theme directories, with no size bound. The 48-result cap applies only after the full scan, so it does not bound the work. Typing in the bound search field at line 118 and other model updates can repeat this scan. This introduces repeated filtering of an unbounded collection in a hot search/UI path.

Resolution

Cache the computed gallery results or search index in TerminalThemeGalleryModel and update it only when the query or slot changes, preferably with debounced/cancellable search work. Ensure the implementation does not rescan all themes during unrelated SwiftUI body evaluations. If a full scan remains per query, add an explicit input bound or benchmark-backed threshold for the expected theme-file scale.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The new shared writer adds CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile.WriteError.multilineThemeValue. cmux themes set calls this writer through writeManagedThemeOverride, and CMUXTermMain prints uncaught errors as Error: \(error), so a user can receive the internal error name multilineThemeValue. This path is reachable because CLI validation accepts an arbitrary trimmed theme value when no themes are available. The message exposes implementation detail instead of safe product terms.

Resolution

Catch errors from the shared theme write and clear operations at the CLI command boundary. Convert them to a generic message such as Couldn't save the terminal theme. Please try again. without interpolating or forwarding the underlying error. Keep detailed file diagnostics in internal logs only, and add a regression test for a multiline or otherwise failed theme write.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds 10 user-facing terminal theme-gallery localization keys in Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, and the new Swift UI consumes them through String(localized:). However, the touched catalog already supports 20 locales: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant. Every new key has translations for only 9 locales (ar, de, en, es, fr, ja, ko, zh-Hans, zh-Hant). The entries omit bs, da, it, km, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, and uk.

Resolution

Add translated stringUnit entries for all 11 missing locale codes for each of the 10 new settings.terminal.themeGallery.* keys in Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. Keep the existing localization API calls and provide real translations, not copied English or placeholder values.

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Inline comments:
In
@Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/TerminalThemes/CmuxManagedThemeBlock.swift:
- Line 10: In CmuxManagedThemeBlock.swift (line 10), remove the static-only
CmuxManagedThemeBlock namespace: move themePair(fromRawValue:) and
encodedThemeValue onto CmuxTerminalThemePair, and move removing, applying, and
clearing onto a String extension or contents value type. In
GhosttyThemeCatalog.swift (line 16), replace the static-only GhosttyThemeCatalog
enum with a struct that stores directories and fileManager and exposes entries()
as an instance method.
- Around line 25-39: Update CmuxManagedThemeBlock.applying and clearing to stop
trimming the string returned by removing(from: contents). Preserve all remaining
user-owned whitespace, using a non-mutating emptiness check to decide whether
content remains, and add only the required separator and final newline around
the managed block.

In
@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Models/TerminalThemeGalleryModel.swift:
- Around line 116-120: Move the synchronous CmuxManagedThemeConfigFile reads and
writes in select(_:) and revert() to a serial actor, following FontConfigWriter,
so theme transactions remain ordered without blocking the main actor. After each
transaction completes, update the model and call reload on the main actor.
- Around line 131-145: Update the snapshot captured when a preview is first
selected to retain the original managed theme block exactly, or nil if none
existed, rather than the whole file. In TerminalThemeGalleryModel.revert(),
merge that snapshot into the current file: replace or remove only the managed
block, preserve unrelated content, and delete the file only when no content
remains.

In @Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift:
- Around line 195-200: Update the themeDirectories list in
terminalThemeGalleryContext() to include the Ghostty macOS user theme directory
under Application Support, reusing the existing appSupport value. Preserve the
current user-config and bundled theme search paths.

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}

/// Returns `contents` with the managed block replaced by one that sets
/// `theme = rawThemeValue`, placed after the user's own lines so it wins.
public static func applying(rawThemeValue: String, to contents: String) -> String {
let stripped = removing(from: contents).trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
let block = "\(startMarker)\ntheme = \(rawThemeValue)\n\(endMarker)"
return stripped.isEmpty ? "\(block)\n" : "\(stripped)\n\n\(block)\n"
}

/// Returns `contents` without the managed block, or `nil` when nothing
/// else remains and the file can be removed.
public static func clearing(_ contents: String) -> String? {
let stripped = removing(from: contents).trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
return stripped.isEmpty ? nil : "\(stripped)\n"

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Do not trim user-owned configuration outside the managed block.

CmuxManagedThemeBlock.applying and clearing call trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines) after removing the managed block. This removes leading and trailing whitespace from user-owned configuration, not only the managed block. Applying or clearing a theme can therefore alter unrelated configuration content. Preserve the remaining string and add only the required separator and final newline.

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around lines 25 - 39, Update CmuxManagedThemeBlock.applying and clearing to stop
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teamleaderleo and others added 4 commits September 27, 2026 09:42
- Revert writes back the managed block's previous theme value (or clears
  the block) instead of the whole file, so edits made after the first pick
  survive.
- A pick reads the current managed block (or the loaded config) first, so
  a `cmux themes` change made while Settings is open is not overwritten.
- CmuxManagedThemeBlock and GhosttyThemeCatalog are values with instance
  methods instead of static-only namespaces.
- GhosttyThemeDirectories resolves the theme directory list for both the
  CLI and the app, in the CLI's order.
- The block regex accepts CRLF, and a CRLF file keeps CRLF endings; tests
  cover CRLF and files without a trailing newline.
- Theme cards report whether they are the current light and/or dark theme
  to VoiceOver.
- Gallery strings now cover all 20 catalog locales.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
reloadGhosttyConfigurationForCmuxThemeSource sat in a private extension,
so HostSettingsActions could not call it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#	Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Environment/SettingsHostActions.swift
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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
a64d59b tools: ui-lab renders view code in seconds; wire-app-sources.py (manaflow-ai#15049)
4e03ed2 fix(events): harden durable replay recovery (manaflow-ai#15054)
ac51546 Settings: native terminal theme gallery (manaflow-ai#14996)
867e7a0 Add native Ghostty option rows to Settings > Terminal (manaflow-ai#15005)
7f97b0d ui-tests: wait for static preflight when a reused compile skips the gate (manaflow-ai#15051)
c708e0c Add a chat view for the terminal's agent session (Claude Code, Codex) (manaflow-ai#14965)
b762a3d ci: the picker fetches kept bases' trees, not just checks their commits (manaflow-ai#15053)
2570eed docs: refresh and trim contributor build guidance (manaflow-ai#15050)
20019d3 ci: re-run by cause: host faults to Blacksmith, code failures back to the minis (manaflow-ai#15045)
36ee3e9 Add Warn Before Closing Workspace setting (manaflow-ai#14979)
4df2317 CI: run changed UI test classes in PRs, keep UI runs off Blacksmith, probe the GUI session (manaflow-ai#14964)
9efe05e Owned-pool sweeper: page the marker listing back to the runs it adopts (manaflow-ai#15033)
6361554 fix(events): restore durable replay across restarts (manaflow-ai#15030)
0bc5145 ci: place side lanes on the light minis one per idle side runner (manaflow-ai#15047)
9d4e92b ci: the E2E rule's queue-round reason names the owned pools the run may take (manaflow-ai#15044)
9e6e216 Dogfood the app from CI with JSON tours (manaflow-ai#14928)
fd3dcf6 ci: retry the picker's kept-base fetch and record how it went (manaflow-ai#15040)
3a64e0e Reload the Ghostty config when its files change, and show config errors (manaflow-ai#14859)
f412b05 test: hit-test the browser portal tab strip with its own click (manaflow-ai#15031)
64d5235 test: route the reopen-last-closed shortcut through the test's own window (manaflow-ai#15036)
7037079 ci: take the gui token in the E2E test job's step, not at job start (manaflow-ai#15037)

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