Codex desktop header controls are clipped on macOS
What happened?
The Codex desktop app window/header controls appear clipped on macOS. In the attached/observed screenshot, the app window is positioned over another Codex/ChatGPT window and the top-left header area is visibly cut off: the macOS window control area and navigation/header buttons are partially hidden or overlap with the top edge of the window. The left sidebar starts with the title "Codex" and "New task", but the header controls above it are not fully visible.
This makes the window controls/navigation hard to use and looks like a layout/titlebar inset issue.
Environment
- App: Codex desktop app
- Platform: macOS 26.5.2 (Build 25F84), arm64
- Bundled Codex CLI version from
/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex --version:codex-cli 0.131.0-alpha.9 - Date observed: 2026-07-11
Steps to reproduce
I do not have a minimal reproduction yet, but the issue is visible in the Codex desktop app window after opening the app on macOS. It may be related to the app header/titlebar layout and possibly language/RTL UI state, since the user was trying to use Hebrew/RTL.
Expected behavior
All window/header/navigation controls should be fully visible, aligned inside the titlebar/header area, and not clipped by the window edge.
Actual behavior
The header controls are clipped/cut off at the top-left area of the Codex app window.
Notes
A screenshot was captured by the user showing the clipped header controls. I could not attach it through this reporting path, but it clearly shows the Codex window controls/header buttons being cut off near the top edge.
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