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fix: repaint terminal panes after workspace reveal - #18432

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Summary

Terminal panes that had painted before a workspace switch can remain black when they are revealed. The reveal fallback now checks whether the renderer is currently presented instead of whether it has ever presented a frame, so an occluded or lost drawable schedules one coalesced redraw after the pane is visible.

Issue: #18410

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  • Conflict-only merge gate: passed with no conflicted paths. Gate base 5205c7b, head 65f0071.

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Fixed: Terminal panes repaint after a workspace reveal when their renderer is no longer currently presented

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  • Behavior changes have added or updated tests, or Testing says why not
  • New or changed v2 socket method allowlisted for cmux ssh: not applicable
  • iOS connectivity, auth, lifecycle, workspace action, terminal I/O or mobile RPC contract change: not applicable
  • Reviewed with a subagent before merge: no additional correctness defects; the test timing race found in review was fixed in 65f0071.
  • All actionable review threads addressed; the deferred-callback coverage thread is resolved with the final visibility-suite run.
  • App dogfood tour: not run; the prior 0.65.0 OSC 11 reproduction was not a fixed-build A/B.

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Medium Risk
Touches macOS terminal visibility and deferred main-queue redraw policy; wrong gating could cause black panes or extra blocking Metal work, but the change is narrow and heavily regression-tested.

Overview
Fixes black terminal panes after switching workspaces when a pane had painted before but its Metal renderer is no longer presenting when it becomes visible again.

The deferred visibility reveal refresh gate in GhosttySurfaceScrollView now keys off isRendererPresented (current renderer health) instead of hasPresentedFrame (historical warm-frame state), so a stale “already painted” flag no longer skips the coalesced recovery redraw. When the renderer is already presenting, the deferred callback still bails out to avoid a redundant blocking refresh.

Tests were updated and expanded: policy tests rename the warm-reveal scenario, integration tests expect a redraw after renderer loss while inactive, and a new case asserts that a live presenter skips debugForceRefreshCount when the deferred guard runs.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Restoring a visible terminal pane now refreshes it when its renderer is no longer presenting, even if it displayed content previously.
    • Avoided scheduling an unnecessary refresh when the renderer is already presenting.
    • Visibility restoration now reflects the renderer’s current presentation state, helping panes recover after renderer loss without forcing refreshes for panes that are already displaying.

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Visibility-reveal refresh decisions now use the renderer’s current presentation state. The code schedules a refresh when the renderer is not presented and skips it when the renderer is presented. Tests cover both policy outcomes and refresh behavior after the renderer loses presentation.

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Visibility-Reveal Refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Apply current renderer presentation state
Sources/GhosttySurfaceScrollView+WorkDiagnostics.swift, Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, cmuxTests/GhosttyTerminalViewVisibilityPolicyTests.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalNotificationDirectInteractionTests+Visibility.swift
The refresh policy, deferred refresh guard, and call site use whether the renderer is currently presented. Tests cover both presentation states and expect a refresh after a previously presented renderer loses presentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Bug fix

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The visibility-reveal tests do not show an actionable issue that would prevent merging after normal checks.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 22.22% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only terminal renderer reveal-refresh scheduling and related tests. It does not modify Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui clients, transports, remote readiness g…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production diff only changes the reveal-refresh predicate and replaces hasPresentedFrame with the existing isRendererPresented read. isRendererPresented is part of an existing @MainActor r…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production Swift diff changes only the renderer-state predicate used by the existing deferred reveal refresh. It does not add or expand semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, pollin…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only terminal visibility and renderer-refresh code plus tests. It does not change browser socket automation, TerminalController.swift, `ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.s…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The production diff only changes the visibility-reveal gate from historical hasPresentedFrame to current isRendererPresented. It does not add or move any agent-history, transcript, JSON/JSONL, dir…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff changes a transient workspace-reveal redraw gate. It replaces historical frame state with the current in-memory renderer presentation state, isRendererPresented, in setVisibleInUI and the…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Swift production and Swift test files. The custom check applies only to production non-Swift changes in TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime scripts. The…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff changes only boolean state selection in the visibility-reveal path. It replaces hasPresentedFrame with isRendererPresented and retains a single deferred callback; it adds no co…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce or materially expand a prohibited Swift concurrency pattern. The production diff only changes the reveal gate from historical hasPresentedFrame to current `isRend…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The Swift diff changes only renderer-state checks and test expectations. It adds no @concurrent or nonisolated async declaration, and it does not introduce a new CPU-, file-, parsing-, or network-…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The production diff changes GhosttySurfaceScrollView, an NSView, and its workspace portal visibility callback. It only changes the reveal-refresh gate and deferred renderer refresh, using `Termina…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Swift source and test files. It does not change a cmux-owned Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode package references. The SwiftPM lockfile requ…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The diff adds or materially changes no logging. Production changes only update renderer-state logic and comments; the existing #if DEBUG cmuxDebugLog block is unchanged. Added test code contains n…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The production diff changes renderer-refresh scheduling only. It adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery text. The existing diagnostic reason remains an internal …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes renderer-state logic and developer comments in two production Swift files. It adds no user-facing Swift UI text, localization keys, catalogs, plist entries, web text, me…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes AppKit renderer visibility and deferred refresh logic in GhosttySurfaceScrollView and updates tests. The diff adds no ObservableObject, @Published, `GeometryReader…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff is a small renderer-state correctness fix. It replaces the historical hasPresentedFrame gate with the current isRendererPresented state in the existing GhosttySurfaceScrollView reveal p…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The PR changes renderer reveal-refresh logic and tests only. It does not add or materially change a user-visible standalone NSWindow, NSPanel, window controller, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup. The ad…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only four hand-written Swift source and test files. The diff contains renderer logic, visibility-policy tests, and direct interaction tests. It adds no logs, screenshots, reco…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff changes only the visibility-reveal refresh condition and its helper parameter. shouldScheduleVisibilityRevealRefresh(rendererPresented:) has a normal product-behavior name …
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: repainting terminal panes after a workspace reveal.
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Passes: CI passes on 65f0071686.

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13-65: LGTM!


79-89: LGTM!


143-143: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

⚠️ Unverified finding
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Assertion on a deadline-bounded poll is deterministic. The poll can still return early for expected == 0.

The poll predicate is debugForceRefreshCount() >= expected. If a caller passes expected: 0, the predicate is true at once. The wait then does nothing, and the following XCTAssertEqual cannot detect a late refresh. The current callers pass only 1, so no test is affected now. A future caller with expected: 0 would get a false pass.

Consider a precondition on expected to prevent this misuse.

Proposed guard
+        precondition(expected > 0, "Use a dedicated no-refresh test for expected == 0")
         surface.setRendererPresentedFrameForTesting(presentedFrameBeforeReveal)

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
c0d23ed fix: repaint terminal panes after workspace reveal (manaflow-ai#18432)
5205c7b Rename CodeRouter OpenCode label (manaflow-ai#18499)
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