Codex Desktop Plugins page renders broken on Intel Mac
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Environment
- Codex Desktop: 26.422.62136 (2180)
- Codex CLI: codex-cli 0.125.0
- macOS: 15.4.1 (24E263)
- Architecture: x86_64 / Intel Mac
- App executable: Mach-O 64-bit x86_64
Summary
The Codex Desktop Plugins page renders incorrectly on Intel Mac. Text and plugin cards are clipped/misaligned, with large blank areas and partial letters visible. This happens on the latest Codex Desktop version available to me.
Steps to Reproduce
- Launch Codex Desktop on Intel Mac.
- Open the Plugins page.
- Observe the plugin list/cards area.
Expected Behavior
The Plugins page should render plugin cards and text normally.
Actual Behavior
The Plugins page layout is corrupted: text/card layers appear horizontally displaced, partial letters are visible, and cards/rows are clipped or misaligned.
Troubleshooting Already Tried
The issue still reproduces after:
- Launching with
--disable-gpu. - Clearing/renaming GPU-related caches:
GPUCache,DawnGraphiteCache,DawnWebGPUCache. - Clearing/renaming frontend caches:
Cache,Code Cache,blob_storage. - Launching with stronger rendering flags:
--disable-gpu --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu-rasterization --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --disable-features=SkiaGraphite,UseSkiaRenderer,CanvasOopRasterization,Vulkan,Metal,WebGPU,UseDawn.
- Launching with a clean user data dir:
--user-data-dir=/private/tmp/codex-clean-profile.
Relevant Log Notes
Logs are under:~/Library/Logs/com.openai.codex/2026/04/29/
Notable lines observed:
unsupported feature enablement workspace_dependenciesplugin/listrequests taking several seconds- primary runtime initially failed to fetch, later installed
Screenshot
A screenshot is available and shows the corrupted Plugins page layout.
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