Add adjustable chat width in the Codex desktop app

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 17, 2026 by ryderllama

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

The Codex desktop app constrains chat messages to a narrow centered column even when the app window is very wide. This makes responses unnecessarily hard to read and makes tables particularly impractical.

Please add a chat-width preference, for example:

Reading (current behavior)

Wide

Full width

Ideally, wide tables could use the available workspace width while regular prose can remain comfortably readable.

Environment:

Codex desktop app

Wide desktop display

Screenshot attached

This is distinct from terminal width/wrapping requests: it concerns the desktop app’s chat layout.

<img width="2505" height="815" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d69c6458-b87d-4265-a05a-439faa0415b3" />

Additional information

not an issue with codex-cli

<img width="2999" height="841" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bf6dbfac-41ec-48e8-9e34-025cac8db46b" />
<img width="1167" height="796" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2d1415ea-f61f-411b-9578-4869f32b9559" />

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