Codex Desktop terminal force scrolls to bottom

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Feb 3, 2026 by corrylc

What version of Codex is running?

260202.0859 (517)

What subscription do you have?

Business

Which model were you using?

N/A

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

zsh in Codex Desktop terminal

What issue are you seeing?

When using the Codex Desktop terminal, if I run a command like docker-compose up (or yes) the tool creates a scrolling progress area as it builds things. If I want to scroll the terminal up to see old output, I can't as the Codex Desktop terminal keeps force scrolling the window when the tool updates the progress.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open Codex Desktop to some project
  2. Open the terminal
  3. Cat some file, just to have some history in the terminal
  4. Run a command, such as yes or docker-compose up, which has constant progress updates and terminal behaviors
  5. Attempt to scroll up to the file that was catted
  6. Observe constant forced scrolling down

What is the expected behavior?

I should be able to freely scroll the terminal away from the bottom.

Additional information

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