Terminal screen cutoff in Cursor

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Sep 7, 2025 by andriusbug Closed Dec 23, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.30.0

Which model were you using?

gpt-5

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18363.0 x64

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Receive any lengthy output (extending beyond single screen) from codex and try to scroll up/down. The output get's broken at the upper single screen boundary and all the other info gets missing (empty screen).

<img width="1884" height="1068" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a6cfc839-30ed-4021-a943-01f4c9a05a99" />

What is the expected behavior?

The terminal window should be scrollable with all the ouput information seen and accesible.

What do you see instead?

Empty screen.

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

andriusbug · 11 months ago

This bug is not present when I run Claude Code or Gemini CLI in Cursor terminal.

username-still-available · 11 months ago

Same here! (Latest Codex CLI on WSL through Cursor terminal). Win10. Cannot scroll and history is lost beyond visible terminal area.

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

This bug report is very old and likely no longer relevant. Closing.