fix(web): fully hide terminal cursor edges during blink off phase - #11620
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🟡 Medium ghostty/renderer.ts:273
During the cursor blink-off phase, a non-default or selected cursor cell is painted with snapshot.background, so its effective background is lost and previously rendered underline, strikethrough, and overline pixels disappear. The post-row clear must repaint the cell background (including cell.selected/selectionBackground) and restore the cell's text decorations before returning.
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In file @apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts around line 273:
During the cursor blink-off phase, a non-default or selected cursor cell is painted with `snapshot.background`, so its effective background is lost and previously rendered underline, strikethrough, and overline pixels disappear. The post-row clear must repaint the cell background (including `cell.selected`/`selectionBackground`) and restore the cell's text decorations before returning.
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| context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background); | ||
| context.fillRect(left, top, metrics.width, metrics.height); |
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When the blinking cursor rests on a cell with a non-default background, selection tint, underline, strikethrough, overline, or hovered-link underline, this post-pass overwrites the already-correct row rendering with the terminal-wide background and only redraws the glyph. Consequently, the cell visibly loses its background and decorations throughout every blink-off phase; the clear path must restore the cell's actual background, selection overlay, and decorations.
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| context.font = fontForCell(cell, fontSize, fontFamily); | ||
| context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background); | ||
| context.fillStyle = cssColor(cell.foreground); | ||
| context.fillText(cell.text, left, top + metrics.baseline, metrics.width); |
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When the cursor is on the leading cell of a double-width glyph, the normal row renderer includes its spacer tail and renders across two cells, but this blink-off redraw constrains the same glyph to metrics.width. The first cell is cleared and receives a horizontally compressed glyph while the previously rendered second half remains in the tail cell, corrupting wide characters during every off phase; the redraw must account for the spacer tail and use the full two-cell extent.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Ghostty renderer now handles visible cursor snapshots during blink-off phases. It clears the full cursor cell and redraws its underlying glyph. Tests verify the redraw and cell-clearing behavior. ChangesGhostty cursor blink rendering
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to When the cursor blinks off on styled or selected terminal content, its cell can temporarily lose its background, selection tint, or decorations. Restore those layers before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The renderer implements the blink-off clear and redraws visible cursor-cell text in Resolution Restore the cursor cell's rendered background state during the blink-off path before redrawing its text. This must preserve per-cell backgrounds and selection state, not only
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts`:
- Line 277: Update renderGhosttySnapshot so the cursor-off fillRect does not
leave the cell missing its background, selection, and decoration layers: after
clearing the cursor cell, repaint those layers in the same order used by the row
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| // erase any subpixel edge remnants left by bar, underline, or stroke | ||
| // cursors whose thin geometry may not be fully covered by the row | ||
| // background fill alone. | ||
| context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Restore the cursor cell paint layers after the blink-off clear.
renderGhosttySnapshot paints backgrounds, selection overlays, glyphs, and decorations before the cursorOn === false branch. The full-cell fillRect then removes those layers, and the branch redraws only the glyph. Repaint the cell layers in the row renderer’s order after the clear.
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts` at line 277, Update
renderGhosttySnapshot so the cursor-off fillRect does not leave the cell missing
its background, selection, and decoration layers: after clearing the cursor
cell, repaint those layers in the same order used by the row renderer before
redrawing the glyph, preserving the existing cursor blink behavior.
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Thin cursor geometries (bar, underline, stroke) left subpixel edge remnants during the blink-off phase because only the row background was repainted without explicitly clearing the cursor cell area. Added an explicit full-cell clear and glyph redraw when cursorOn is false to ensure all cursor edge pixels are erased.
Fixes #11402
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