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[macOS] Toggle Bottom Panel (⌘J) does nothing in Codex

Open 💬 9 comments Opened Aug 3, 2026 by ranyitz

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.727.51351

What subscription do you have?

Enterprise

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Problem

While the command menu shows:

Toggle Bottom Panel — ⌘J

Pressing ⌘J or selecting the option from the menu has no effect. The bottom panel does not open.

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I updated Codex and restarted the app, but the issue persists.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open Codex desktop.
  2. Press ⌘J.
  3. Observe that nothing happens.

What is the expected behavior?

Pressing ⌘J or selecting “Toggle Bottom Panel” should open or hide the bottom panel.

Additional information

This appears similar to the closed issue #28665, but the same behavior is occurring again in the newer app version.

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9 Comments

luisKisters · 21 days ago

I have the same problem on my Mac. My workaround was to just bind open terminal to cmd+j. It opens the terminal in a sidepanel which is a bit annoying but better than this

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georgejecook · 11 days ago

have same. right side work around does not work for me.

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rl7x · 10 days ago

Still reproducing on a much later build.

  • ChatGPT desktop 26.810.52044 (released Aug 15, 2026)

⌘J and the Toggle Bottom Panel menu item both do nothing — no panel. Knock-on effect is that the integrated terminal is unreachable, since the bottom panel is where it lives.

ranyitz · 10 days ago

For me, it was fixed in 26.803.81509. I’m not closing this since people are still reporting that the issue persists for them

shivampandey0 · 7 days ago

I've this issue, I'm on 26.814.41407
any fix?

georgejecook · 7 days ago

Still not fixed for me on my MBP works fine on my studio. Makes me so sad :(

russaholic · 5 days ago

Still reproducing on two separate Apple-silicon Macs using the same ChatGPT account, which makes this much less likely to be machine- or workspace-specific.

Builds tested:

  • ChatGPT Desktop 26.818.41509
  • ChatGPT Desktop 26.818.41705 (released Aug 21, 2026)

Behavior on both machines:

  • Toggle Bottom Panel is present in the command menu but does nothing.
  • Open Terminal is present but does nothing.
  • Keyboard shortcuts (⌘J and the terminal shortcut) do nothing.
  • No bottom panel or terminal appears in any local Codex project.

Diagnostics performed on the 26.818.41509 machine:

  • Workspace Dependencies > Diagnose reports healthy.
  • Reproduces across multiple local projects.
  • Removed a stale older Codex.app registration / duplicate bundle-ID install; no change.
  • Reset electron-persisted-atom-state; no change.
  • Reset Codex renderer profile (~/Library/Application Support/Codex and cache) with backups; no change.
  • Cleared saved main-window bounds / tested fresh display placement; no change.
  • Electron debug logging while invoking Open Terminal / Toggle Bottom Panel showed normal local-thread/app-server activity but no terminal/PTY/spawn/panel creation event at all. This looks consistent with the action failing in the frontend before terminal backend creation.

The second Mac reproduces the same failure without any of the first machine's local state/history. Because both Macs use the same account, an account/feature-flag component cannot be fully excluded, but the failure persisting across 26.818.41509 and 26.818.41705 strongly suggests the regression is still present in current 26.818 builds.

Ugenx · 23 hours ago

Ran into this issue yesterday; spent a good few hours trying to figure it out. This morning I noticed my top left mode dropdown was set to "ChatGPT" instead of "Codex". Flipping to "Codex" completely restored the bottom panel/terminal functionality. I do not feel smart but it is what it is.

georgejecook · 22 hours ago
Ran into this issue yesterday; spent a good few hours trying to figure it out. This morning I noticed my top left mode dropdown was set to "ChatGPT" instead of "Codex". Flipping to "Codex" completely restored the bottom panel/terminal functionality. I do not feel smart but it is what it is.

Good man. That is it.