fix(web): fully hide terminal cursor edges during blink off phase#11620

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Thin cursor geometries (bar, underline, stroke) left subpixel edge remnants during the blink-off phase because only the row background was repainted without explicitly clearing the cursor cell area. Added an explicit full-cell clear and glyph redraw when cursorOn is false to ensure all cursor edge pixels are erased.

Fixes #11402

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Bug Fixes
- Improved terminal cursor blinking so underlying text remains visible during the cursor’s off phase.
- Repainted cursor cells in the correct visual order, including backgrounds, selections, glyphs, and text decorations.
- Cleared the full cursor area during blinking to prevent leftover bar, underline, or stroke artifacts.
- Ensured wide characters are fully cleared and redrawn when the cursor overlaps their trailing cell.
- Kept cursor rendering consistent whenever the cursor is visible, including during blink transitions.

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apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.tsline 273Outdated · fd11724Open thread

…	…	@@ -244,27 +244,43 @@ export function renderGhosttySnapshot(options: {
	270	+	}
	271	+	}
262	272		} else {
	273	+	// During the blink off phase, explicitly clear the full cursor cell to

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During the cursor blink-off phase, a non-default or selected cursor cell is painted with snapshot.background, so its effective background is lost and previously rendered underline, strikethrough, and overline pixels disappear. The post-row clear must repaint the cell background (including cell.selected/selectionBackground) and restore the cell's text decorations before returning.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused two-file terminal-rendering bug fix that explicitly clears and redraws the cursor cell during blink-off, with targeted test coverage and no schema, infrastructure, or sensitive-path changes. A separate Medium finding notes that selected or non-default cell backgrounds and text decorations may not be preserved by the new clear operation.

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apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.tslines 277–278Outdated · fd11724Open thread

…	…	@@ -244,27 +244,43 @@ export function renderGhosttySnapshot(options: {
	275	+	// cursors whose thin geometry may not be fully covered by the row
	276	+	// background fill alone.
	277	+	context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background);
263	278		context.fillRect(left, top, metrics.width, metrics.height);

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Restore cell styling after clearing the cursor

When the blinking cursor rests on a cell with a non-default background, selection tint, underline, strikethrough, overline, or hovered-link underline, this post-pass overwrites the already-correct row rendering with the terminal-wide background and only redraws the glyph. Consequently, the cell visibly loses its background and decorations throughout every blink-off phase; the clear path must restore the cell's actual background, selection overlay, and decorations.

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apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.tsline 284Outdated · fd11724Open thread

…	…	@@ -244,27 +244,43 @@ export function renderGhosttySnapshot(options: {
266	282		context.font = fontForCell(cell, fontSize, fontFamily);
267		-	context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background);
	283	+	context.fillStyle = cssColor(cell.foreground);
268	284		context.fillText(cell.text, left, top + metrics.baseline, metrics.width);

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Redraw wide cursor glyphs at their full width

When the cursor is on the leading cell of a double-width glyph, the normal row renderer includes its spacer tail and renders across two cells, but this blink-off redraw constrains the same glyph to metrics.width. The first cell is cleared and receives a horizontally compressed glyph while the previously rendered second half remains in the tail cell, corrupting wide characters during every off phase; the redraw must account for the spacer tail and use the full two-cell extent.

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The Ghostty renderer now repaints the underlying cursor area during blink-off phases. It restores cell layers in row-rendering order and handles wide glyphs across two cells. Tests verify paint colors, ordering, and wide-glyph clearing.

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Ghostty cursor blink rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Blink-off cursor repainting `apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts`, `apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.test.ts`	The renderer clears the cursor area and repaints the background, selection, glyph, and decorations. Wide glyphs use their full two-cell extent. Tests verify paint order, colors, and wide-glyph behavior.

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Wide-glyph cursor hiding works for the tested leading cell, but the trailing-cell case lacks coverage and could regress unnoticed. Add the focused fixture before merging or track it as bounded follow-up.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the web terminal cursor blink-off rendering fix and matches the primary change.
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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [`#11402`]. `renderGhosttySnapshot` clears the complete cursor extent during blink-off, then redraws the cell background, selection overlay, glyph, and dec…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within [`#11402`]. The renderer changes remove blink-off cursor remnants and restore underlying cell layers. The added tests verify this behavior. No unrelated product area or feature…

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apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.tsline 277Outdated · fd11724Open thread

…	…	@@ -244,27 +244,43 @@ export function renderGhosttySnapshot(options: {
	274	+	// erase any subpixel edge remnants left by bar, underline, or stroke
	275	+	// cursors whose thin geometry may not be fully covered by the row
	276	+	// background fill alone.
	277	+	context.fillStyle = cssColor(snapshot.background);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the cursor cell paint layers after the blink-off clear.

renderGhosttySnapshot paints backgrounds, selection overlays, glyphs, and decorations before the cursorOn === false branch. The full-cell fillRect then removes those layers, and the branch redraws only the glyph. Repaint the cell layers in the row renderer’s order after the clear.

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6	In `@apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.ts` at line 277, Update
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8	its background, selection, and decoration layers: after clearing the cursor
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EExotic209093Sep 16, 2026

Rebased onto latest main and fixed the TS18048 typecheck errors in renderer.test.ts (tuple typing for fillRect calls).

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apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/renderer.test.tslines 232–235Outdated · 45e9787Open thread

…	…	@@ -226,8 +226,75 @@ describe("renderGhosttySnapshot", () => {
	232	+	expect(fillTextCalls).toEqual([
	233	+	["abx", 4, 15, 21.6],
	234	+	["x", 18.4, 15, 7.2],
	235	+	]);

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Assert the final cursor-cell output.

These tests mock fillRect as a no-op and record fillText calls only. The separate fillRectCalls and fillTextCalls assertions also do not check draw order or final canvas pixels. A later fillRect could erase the cursor-cell glyph while these assertions still pass. Render to a test canvas and assert that the final cursor cell preserves the glyph after blink-off clearing.

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Add coverage for a cursor on spacerTail. The existing fixture uses cursorX: 1, so it does not execute the backtracking branch. If that branch regresses, glyphStart remains 2, and the blink-off path clears only the trailing cell without redrawing the wide glyph from its leading cell. Add a cursorX: 2 fixture and assert the clear and glyph redraw start at column 1 and span both cells.

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Added 2 commitsSep 19, 2026

fix(web): repaint cursor cell layers and wide glyphs during blink offa9cd103
fix(web): fully hide terminal cursor edges during blink off phasebcb96db

JJulius MarmingeSep 19, 2026

Closing: the triage on #11402 identified the cause as a fractional row origin (terminalContentOriginY adds viewport slack), which antialiases the row's top/bottom edges so a source-over fill blends over the cursor fringe instead of replacing it. The new clear here re-fills the same fractional rect, which blends the fringe a second time: fainter, still visible. The description's premise (bar/underline geometry not covered by the row fill) is not what the issue reports; the block cursor is. The fix is a couple of lines (snap the origin to the pixel grid in surface.ts, or clear with globalCompositeOperation = "copy"), not a duplicated render pass, and the mocked-context tests cannot show that pixels are actually cleared. If you want to send that smaller version with an offscreen-canvas pixel test at a fractional origin, that would be welcome.