Codex Desktop: terminal toolbar icon appears active when no terminal is open
Summary
The terminal toolbar icon appears active/highlighted even when no terminal is open or running.
!Terminal toolbar icon appears active with no terminal open
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.429.20946
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
When working inside a repository in Codex Desktop, the terminal toolbar icon can look like it is in an active/selected UI state even though there is no terminal open and no terminal process currently running in the chat.
The visual state is misleading: the icon appears highlighted/active, which suggests there is an active terminal session, selected terminal pane, or running terminal-related state. In the observed case, none of those were true.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open Codex Desktop on macOS.
- Work inside a repository-backed chat/workspace.
- Make sure there is no terminal open and no terminal command/process currently running in the chat.
- Look at the terminal icon in the top toolbar.
- Observe that the terminal icon appears visually active/highlighted.
What is the expected behavior?
The terminal icon should appear idle/neutral unless a terminal is actually open, selected, or running.
If the icon is only an action button to open a terminal, it should not use the same visual treatment as an active state when there is no terminal state behind it.
Additional information
This appears to be a UI state/affordance bug rather than a terminal execution bug. The issue is that the toolbar communicates an active terminal state that does not match the actual workspace/chat state.