Weird styling of codex self thinking
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 18, 2026 by akfaew Closed Jan 22, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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Please see screenshot. White background and black text.
<img width="729" height="211" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da083758-c74b-4ef9-a155-7692a0241c9f" />
3 Comments
Can you provide more details? Which platform are you using? Which terminal emulator? Do you have any custom settings for your terminal (custom themes, etc.)?
It's just xterm, the most standard terminal there is. There are no themes for xterm, it's just xterm.
It is a problem with italics. After changing my term config it now shows correctly.