Codex Desktop: Branch Details Blocking Stop & Send Buttons

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It actually blocks half the chat area when it pops up

PLEASE FIX THIS ITS ANNOYING POPUP SAME HERE

I am seeing the same issue on macOS.

Environment:

• Codex Desktop: 26.429.30905 (2345)
• Platform: Darwin 25.4.0 arm64, macOS 26.4.1 (25E253)
• Hardware: Apple Silicon Mac laptop

Additional repro detail:

1. Open a local Codex thread with git changes, so the Branch details hover card is available.
2. Move the cursor near the right-hand side of the main Codex window, especially around the composer submit/stop control.
3. The Branch details panel opens on hover/proximity before the cursor is actually on the edge control.
4. The panel overlays/intercepts the composer area and prevents clicking the send/stop button.

Expected behavior:

• The branch details panel should not open during normal pointer movement near the composer.
• If it must exist, it should open only on explicit click, should not intercept composer controls, or should have a setting to disable hover behavior.

Actual behavior:

• Normal mouse movement near the right side triggers a blocking overlay.
• The overlay prevents submitting follow-up commands with the mouse.

This feels like either an overly broad hover trigger region or a renderer/pointer-event hit-testing regression in the right-side branch details affordance.

Same issue on Windows

+1 the popup is very annoying - seems overly sensitive to any mouse hover _near to_ the right edge of the window. This is especially bad if the Codex window is small / narrow, as the popup appears almost every time you hover near the "submit/continue" button.

One workaround is to use "Open in mini window" which completely disables the popup.

Adding another reproduction from macOS.

Codex Desktop version: 26.429.30905 (2345)
Platform: Darwin 25.5.0 arm64

The right-side Branch Details panel opens too aggressively when the cursor moves near the right side of the conversation. In my case it appears over the active conversation and blocks reading/clicking in that area.

What makes it particularly disruptive:

• It can open unintentionally during normal mouse movement.
• It covers the conversation content instead of behaving like an explicitly toggled side panel.
• I could not find an obvious setting to disable hover-to-open behavior.

Expected behavior:

• The Branch Details panel should only open when the user explicitly clicks the right-side panel button, or
• there should be a setting to disable hover-to-open for this panel.

I have a screenshot showing the Branch Details popover covering the conversation area and can attach it if helpful.

yup same here on windows 11, it's pretty annoying,

<img width="727" height="1461" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ab6d9942-b9eb-44b5-a64e-5624ad1a184b" />

orange is current activation area for the modal to appear
green is expected activation area for the modal to appear

that should do the trick.

for the god sake we can turn this off?
It takes so much space and not really meaningful to show off after every turn.

Adding another reproduction report for this same blocking popup behavior.

Environment:

• Codex App: 26.429.61741 (2429)
• Platform: macOS 26.3.1 (25D771280a), arm64
• Layout: Codex desktop app resized/snapped to the left half of the screen, not fullscreen

Observed behavior:

• After starting a new thread, if Codex is positioned on the left half of the screen, moving the mouse from roughly the middle of the Codex window toward the right side repeatedly triggers the Branch Details popup/hover panel.
• The popup appears over the right side of the conversation/input area and blocks pointer interaction.
• This prevents clicking the transcribe button and send button, and effectively makes the lower-right controls unusable.
• The same workflow does not reproduce when the Codex app is fullscreen, so this appears tied to the half-width/resized window layout and the hover hit area.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Codex Desktop on macOS.
2. Start a new thread.
3. Move/resize/snap the Codex window so it occupies the left half of the display.
4. Move the mouse across the window from about 50% width toward the right side, especially near the lower input controls.
5. Observe the Branch Details popup appearing and blocking the transcribe/send button area.
6. Switch Codex to fullscreen and repeat the same mouse movement. The blocking behavior does not occur there.

Expected behavior:

• Branch Details hover UI should not cover or intercept clicks for the transcribe, send, or stop controls.
• In narrower/half-screen layouts, the popup should either reposition, stay pinned away from the input controls, or avoid opening from a broad hover region over the main interaction area.