feat(web): drag to resize split terminal panes - #11923
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Split terminal panes were laid out as a fixed equal grid with only a border between them, so there was no way to give one terminal more space. Each pane boundary now has a drag handle. During a drag the grid template is written directly to the DOM once per animation frame, so panes track the cursor without re-rendering the terminals; each Ghostty surface refits in the same frame via its ResizeObserver and the PTY resize stays debounced. Sizes commit to drawer state on release, per group and split direction, and a double-click resets panes to equal. Panes keep a minimum of 160px wide or 64px tall. Works in both the drawer and the right panel terminal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Medium components/TerminalSplitPanes.tsx:204
Terminal panes shrink below MIN_TERMINAL_PANE_PX when the container is resized after a drag. resizeAdjacentPanes applies the minimum only using the drag-start containerPx, while the rendered minmax(0, …fr) tracks retain the saved fractions and impose no minimum on later container sizes; recompute the layout on container resize or enforce the minimum in the grid tracks.
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resizeAdjacentPanesonly enforcesminPanePx / containerPxwhile a handle is dragged. The rendered grid uses the saved fractions withminmax(0, …fr), so a pane resized to 160px at (for example) a 1000px container can become 80px when the drawer/window is narrowed to 500px; no code recomputes or CSS-enforces the minimum. Thus terminal panes can shrink below the stated usable minimum after any container resize.
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In file @apps/web/src/components/TerminalSplitPanes.tsx around line 204:
Terminal panes shrink below `MIN_TERMINAL_PANE_PX` when the container is resized after a drag. `resizeAdjacentPanes` applies the minimum only using the drag-start `containerPx`, while the rendered `minmax(0, …fr)` tracks retain the saved fractions and impose no minimum on later container sizes; recompute the layout on container resize or enforce the minimum in the grid tracks.
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- apps/web/src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.ts:77 -- `resizeAdjacentPanes` only enforces `minPanePx / containerPx` while a handle is dragged. The rendered grid uses the saved fractions with `minmax(0, …fr)`, so a pane resized to 160px at (for example) a 1000px container can become 80px when the drawer/window is narrowed to 500px; no code recomputes or CSS-enforces the minimum. Thus terminal panes can shrink below the stated usable minimum after any container resize.
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Confirmed and fixed in 0703bf2. constrainPaneSizes now constrains the stored fractions against the container's current extent (tracked with a ResizeObserver) before rendering, and the same constrained sizes drive the grid template, the handle offsets, and drag start. Stored sizes are left untouched, so the original split comes back when the container grows. The observer only re-renders when the constrained layout actually changes.
Verified in a real web client: panes dragged to 160/874 px, window narrowed to 760 px gives 160/450 (previously ~93 px), and widening again restores 160/874.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds pane-size utilities, draggable and keyboard-operable split panes, axis-aware drag handling, deferred terminal reflow, and persisted split layouts in the terminal drawer. ChangesTerminal split-pane resizing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ThreadTerminalDrawer
participant TerminalSplitPanes
participant useResizeDrag
participant splitPaneSizes
participant TerminalViewport
participant GhosttyTerminalSurface
ThreadTerminalDrawer->>TerminalSplitPanes: Pass pane IDs, direction, and saved sizes
TerminalSplitPanes->>splitPaneSizes: Resolve and constrain pane sizes
TerminalSplitPanes->>useResizeDrag: Start axis-aware pointer resize
useResizeDrag-->>TerminalSplitPanes: Report pointer movement
TerminalSplitPanes->>splitPaneSizes: Resize adjacent panes
TerminalSplitPanes->>TerminalViewport: Render panes with deferred reflow
TerminalViewport->>GhosttyTerminalSurface: Set reflow deferral
TerminalSplitPanes-->>ThreadTerminalDrawer: Commit sizes and resize completion
GhosttyTerminalSurface-->>TerminalViewport: Reflow settled dimensions
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Restoring a pane before deferred reflow completes can leave terminal text sized for an obsolete layout, and extremely narrow split layouts can create invalid pane tracks. Resolve these issues before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/web/src/components/TerminalSplitPanes.tsx`:
- Around line 254-257: Add keyboard accessibility to each separator rendered by
TerminalSplitPanes: make it focusable with tabIndex={0}, handle
orientation-appropriate arrow keys to resize the associated boundary, and expose
aria-valuemin, aria-valuemax, and aria-valuenow using that boundary’s
constrained range and current position. Preserve the existing pointer-drag
behavior and update the separator’s accessible state without relying on
ThreadTerminalDrawer or terminal keybindings.
In `@apps/web/src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.ts`:
- Line 92: Update TerminalSplitPanes sizing so stored split fractions are
constrained against the current container dimensions before rendering. Recompute
one constrained fraction set and reuse it for both paneGridTemplate and
paneBoundaryOffsets; preserve MIN_TERMINAL_PANE_PX when the container can fit
all panes, and use a deterministic equal-fraction fallback when it cannot.
Ensure resizeAdjacentPanes and the rendered grid and handles remain consistent.
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Review follow-ups for resizable split panes. The minimum pane size was only enforced while dragging, so narrowing the window or drawer could squeeze a pane below 160px wide or 64px tall. Stored sizes are now constrained against the container's current extent before rendering, and the same constrained sizes drive the grid, the handle positions, and drag start. Stored sizes keep the user's intent, so the split restores when the container grows again. The ResizeObserver only re-renders when the constrained layout actually changes. Split handles are now keyboard operable: they are focusable separators with aria-valuenow, arrow keys move the boundary (Shift for larger steps), and Enter resets panes to equal sizes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TerminalSplitPanes hand-rolled the same pointer lifecycle that useResizeDrag already provides for the sidebar and side panels: pointer capture, rAF-throttled moves, body cursor and user-select, and ending the drag on release, cancel, lost capture, window blur, or unmount. useResizeDrag gains an optional `axis` so a session can track clientY and show the row-resize cursor; existing horizontal callers are unchanged. The split panes now run a single hook instance for all handles, and the handle element is captured at drag start because React clears currentTarget before cleanup runs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dragging a split-pane boundary looked like blinking. Frame captures (CPU and GPU compositing, 1x and 2x DPR) showed no blank or stretched frames: every drag step changed the pane width, the surface's ResizeObserver called fit(), and core.resize reflowed soft-wrapped lines, so wrapped text jumped between rows on every frame. GhosttyTerminalSurface gains setReflowDeferred(). While deferred, fit() still sizes and repaints the canvas but keeps the current grid, so text is clipped at the moving edge instead of rewrapping, and the PTY is not notified. Clearing the flag refits once to the settled size. The first fit still establishes the grid. TerminalSplitPanes defers reflow for its terminals only between drag start and release; keyboard steps and double-click resets stay immediate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two problems when dragging split terminal panes. Text shook while dragging. Device-resolution captures showed the moving pane's text stepping 2 or 4 device pixels while its border stepped 3: grid tracks were fractional `fr` values, pane boxes landed on sub-pixel offsets, and the terminal canvas is painted on whole CSS pixels, so text and border drifted against each other. During a drag the grid now uses whole-pixel tracks and handle positions, and keyboard steps snap to whole pixels. The same capture now shows text moving exactly with its pane on every step. Releasing a pane narrower than the shell prompt left a duplicated prompt row. The grid reflowed first, splitting the prompt across rows, then the shell redrew it assuming one row and orphaned the first half. On release the surface now sends the PTY the new size immediately and holds the grid reflow until shell output arrives or 250 ms pass; refits that land in that window (such as the drawer's post-drag refit) only retarget the pending reflow instead of reflowing early. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts`:
- Around line 904-905: Update the reflow handling around shouldSkipReflow so
pendingReflowDims is reconciled before the grid-change guard: when the measured
grid matches the current core grid, clear the pending reflow and notify the PTY
of the restored dimensions; otherwise retarget pendingReflowDims to the measured
dimensions, preventing stale targets from being applied by a later timer or
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.ts`:
- Line 156: Update the boundary calculation in the split-pane sizing logic so
containers smaller than the pane count cannot produce boundaries beyond the
container or a negative final pane size. When one pixel per pane is impossible,
return the existing valid input sizes or explicitly allow zero-pixel tracks,
ensuring keyboard resizing does not pass an invalid array to onSizesChange.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Handle containers smaller than the pane count.
When Math.ceil(containerPx) < sizes.length, upper is lower than the required next boundary. The clamp then produces boundaries past the container and a negative final pane size. For example, three equal panes in a 1px container produce [1, 1, -1].
Keyboard resizing sends this invalid size array to onSizesChange. The grid can overflow until a later render resets the invalid sizes. Return the valid input sizes, or allow zero-pixel tracks, when one pixel per pane is impossible.
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export function snapPaneSizesToWholePixels(
sizes: readonly number[],
containerPx: number,
): number[] {
- if (containerPx <= 0 || sizes.length <= 1) return Array.from(sizes);
+ if (containerPx <= 0 || sizes.length <= 1 || Math.ceil(containerPx) < sizes.length) {
+ return Array.from(sizes);
+ }
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.ts` at line 156, Update the boundary
calculation in the split-pane sizing logic so containers smaller than the pane
count cannot produce boundaries beyond the container or a negative final pane
size. When one pixel per pane is impossible, return the existing valid input
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Holding the grid until release made the terminal update only after the drag ended, which felt worse than the original flicker. The flicker was a painting problem, fixed separately by whole-pixel grid tracks during the drag, so text can reflow live again. This removes GhosttyTerminalSurface.setReflowDeferred(), the release-time pending reflow, and the drawer's reflowDeferred prop; surface.ts is back to main. Device-resolution captures with live reflow still show text moving exactly with its pane on every drag step. Releasing a pane narrower than the shell prompt can again leave a duplicated prompt row, the same as shrinking the window on main. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shells redraw the prompt on SIGWINCH by moving up the rows it occupied at the width they last knew. The terminal reflows live on every resize but tells the PTY the settled size 150 ms later, so a narrower grid had already split the prompt across more rows and the redraw left an orphaned copy of its first row. This affected split-pane drags and plain window resizes. When the settled size reaches the PTY with a column change on the primary screen, the surface now pauses painting (the live-reflowed frame stays on screen), resizes the grid back to the columns the shell last knew, sends the new size, and restores the new grid as soon as the shell's redraw has been written into it, or after 250 ms. The alternate screen, rows-only changes, and the first notification keep the old path. A resize that resumes during that window restores first and keeps reflowing and painting live, so resuming a drag never shows a cleared canvas. Verified in a real client: the prompt appears once after dragging a pane to its minimum and after shrinking the window, and resuming a drag 220 ms after a pause produced no blank frames. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What Changed
Split terminal panes can now be resized by dragging the boundary between them, for both side-by-side and stacked splits.
ResizeObserver, so text rewraps live, while the PTY resize stays debounced so the shell only hears the settled size.aria-valuenow, arrow keys along the split axis move the boundary (Shift for larger steps), and Enter resets to equal sizes.frgrid tracks put pane boxes on sub-pixel offsets while the terminal canvas is painted on whole CSS pixels, so text and border drifted against each other. During a drag the grid uses whole-pixel tracks and handle positions (and keyboard steps snap to whole pixels), so text moves exactly with its pane.useResizeDraghook (sidebar and side panels) instead of a second pointer lifecycle; the hook gains an optionalaxis: "y"for stacked splits.Files:
apps/web/src/components/TerminalSplitPanes.tsx: split layout and drag handling.apps/web/src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.ts: pure size math (resolve, clamp, grid template, boundary offsets) with focused tests.apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.tsx: the split view now rendersTerminalSplitPanes.apps/web/src/hooks/useResizeDrag.ts: optional vertical axis, with a focused test.apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts: settled-resize prompt redraw handling, with tests.No contract, server, or persistence changes.
Why
Split panes were laid out as a fixed
repeat(n, minmax(0, 1fr))grid with only a 1px border between them, so there was no way to give one terminal more room. Resizing is expected in a split terminal, and a drag that lags the cursor or reflows the shell mid-drag feels broken, which is why the drag bypasses React and leaves PTY resizes debounced.UI Changes
Recorded against a real web dev client (
vp run dev) driven by Playwright. Captures are cropped to the terminal drawer.Before (main)
Panes are always equal. Dragging the boundary does nothing (measured 517px / 517px before and after a 300px drag).
After
Dragging resizes the panes live in every split layout. Measured in the real client: 517/517, dragged right to 837/197, dragged left to 217/817, clamped at the 160px minimum (160/874), double-click reset to 517/517; stacked 337/337 dragged up to 187/487.
Video
Real-speed showcase: side-by-side split, three terminals, a stacked split, and a split terminal in the right panel. Text reflows live and moves with its pane.
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Validation
apps/web:vp test run src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts src/terminal/splitPaneSizes.test.ts src/hooks/useResizeDrag.test.tsx src/hooks/useResizableWidth.test.tsx: 121 tests pass.tput colsin that pane goes from 64 to 34.aria-valuenowgoes 50 to 62, Enter resets to 517/517.tsc --noEmitforapps/web: no errors.vp fmt --checkon the changed files: clean.vp lint: oneexhaustive-effect-dependencieswarning on theResizeObservereffect inTerminalSplitPanes, whose extra dependencies intentionally re-check the constrained layout when sizes or pane count change.Not exercised: desktop (Electron) shell, the right panel terminal in a real client, remote or tunnel connections, and touch or pen input.
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