Add adjustable chat width in the Codex desktop app
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.
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Additional information
not an issue with codex-cli
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