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70 changes: 68 additions & 2 deletions apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -226,8 +226,74 @@ describe("renderGhosttySnapshot", () => {
});

// The cursor row still repaints so the block disappears, but the inverted
// glyph the on phase draws over the cell is gone.
expect(fillTextCalls).toEqual([["abx", 4, 15, 21.6]]);
// glyph the on phase draws over the cell is gone. The blink-off path also
// redraws the cursor cell's own glyph after clearing it, so the cell text
// appears twice: once as part of the row and once as the per-cell redraw.
expect(fillTextCalls).toEqual([
["abx", 4, 15, 21.6],
["x", 18.4, 15, 7.2],
]);
});

it("clears the full cursor cell and redraws text during blink off phase", () => {
const fillRectCalls: number[][] = [];
const fillTextCalls: unknown[][] = [];
const context = {
canvas: { width: 200, height: 40 },
beginPath: () => {},
clip: () => {},
fillRect: (...args: number[]) => fillRectCalls.push(args),
fillText: (...args: unknown[]) => fillTextCalls.push(args),
rect: () => {},
resetTransform: () => {},
restore: () => {},
save: () => {},
set fillStyle(_value: string) {},
set font(_value: string) {},
set textBaseline(_value: string) {},
} as unknown as CanvasRenderingContext2D;
const snapshot: GhosttySnapshot = {
cols: 3,
rows: 1,
foreground: { r: 255, g: 255, b: 255 },
background: { r: 0, g: 0, b: 0 },
cursor: { r: 255, g: 255, b: 255 },
cursorX: 2,
cursorY: 0,
cursorVisible: true,
cursorBlinking: true,
cursorStyle: 0,
dirtyRows: new Set(),
rowData: [
{
cells: [cell("a"), cell("b"), cell("x")],
text: "abx",
isWrapContinuation: false,
wrapsToNext: false,
},
],
};

renderGhosttySnapshot({
context,
snapshot,
metrics: { width: 7.2, height: 16, baseline: 11 },
fontSize: 12,
fontFamily: "monospace",
padding: 4,
forceFull: false,
cursorOn: false,
});

// The cursor cell must be explicitly cleared with a full-width rect to
// erase bar/underline/stroke edge remnants, not just rely on the row
// background fill which may leave subpixel artifacts at cell boundaries.
const cursorCellClear = fillRectCalls.find(
([x, , w]) => Math.abs(x - (4 + 2 * 7.2)) < 0.01 && Math.abs(w - 7.2) < 0.01,
);
expect(cursorCellClear).toBeDefined();
// The glyph under the cursor must be redrawn so it remains visible.
expect(fillTextCalls.some(([text]) => text === "x")).toBe(true);
});

it("repaints the previous cursor row after the cursor moves", () => {
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46 changes: 31 additions & 15 deletions apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts
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Expand Up @@ -244,27 +244,43 @@ export function renderGhosttySnapshot(options: {
}
}

if (cursorOn && snapshot.cursorVisible && snapshot.cursorX >= 0 && snapshot.cursorY >= 0) {
if (snapshot.cursorVisible && snapshot.cursorX >= 0 && snapshot.cursorY >= 0) {
const left = padding + snapshot.cursorX * metrics.width;
const top = originY + snapshot.cursorY * metrics.height;
context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
if (!focused) {
// An unfocused terminal draws a hollow cursor so the active pane is obvious.
context.strokeStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
context.strokeRect(left + 0.5, top + 0.5, metrics.width - 1, metrics.height - 1);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 0) {
context.fillRect(left, top, 2, metrics.height);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 2) {
context.fillRect(left, top + metrics.height - 2, metrics.width, 2);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 3) {
context.strokeStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
context.strokeRect(left + 0.5, top + 0.5, metrics.width - 1, metrics.height - 1);
if (cursorOn) {
context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
if (!focused) {
// An unfocused terminal draws a hollow cursor so the active pane is obvious.
context.strokeStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
context.strokeRect(left + 0.5, top + 0.5, metrics.width - 1, metrics.height - 1);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 0) {
context.fillRect(left, top, 2, metrics.height);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 2) {
context.fillRect(left, top + metrics.height - 2, metrics.width, 2);
} else if (snapshot.cursorStyle === 3) {
context.strokeStyle = cssColor(snapshot.cursor);
context.strokeRect(left + 0.5, top + 0.5, metrics.width - 1, metrics.height - 1);
} else {
context.fillRect(left, top, metrics.width, metrics.height);
const cell = snapshot.rowData[snapshot.cursorY]?.cells[snapshot.cursorX];
if (cell?.text) {
context.font = fontForCell(cell, fontSize, fontFamily);
context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background);
context.fillText(cell.text, left, top + metrics.baseline, metrics.width);
}
}
} else {
// During the blink off phase, explicitly clear the full cursor cell to

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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.

// 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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context.fillRect(left, top, metrics.width, metrics.height);
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P2 Badge Restore cell styling after clearing the cursor

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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// Redraw the cell text so the glyph remains visible under the cleared cursor.
const cell = snapshot.rowData[snapshot.cursorY]?.cells[snapshot.cursorX];
if (cell?.text) {
if (cell && !cell.invisible && cell.text.length > 0) {
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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P2 Badge Redraw wide cursor glyphs at their full width

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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