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@mothran An update to my previous comment: the original patch is superseded and should no longer be used. While testing it, I found that the package's local Python webview bridge could remain alive after Codex Desktop exited, leaving port 5175 occupied and causing the next launch to fail.

The revised patch keeps the CLI-session visibility fix, assigns the bridge a dynamic port, and ties its lifetime to the launcher and Electron process. It also improves the pet overlay on KDE Plasma Wayland by using XWayland there so the overlay can remain above other windows, while leaving Electron's default backend selection unchanged on other desktops: https://gist.github.com/SunParis/ec8e5a7eaa8c3531b9a69b259683a323

Please take a look when you have time. Feedback and corrections are very welcome, and I would be happy to help test any changes.

@mothran I found an issue where conversations created from the Codex CLI do not appear in Codex Desktop, although conversations created in Desktop are visible from the CLI. Both use the same ~/.codex directory, and I confirmed that the app server returns the CLI sessions correctly. The problem occurs in the frontend, which classifies CLI sessions as project conversations that are not registered with Desktop, so they are omitted from the sidebar.

I created and tested a build-time patch for the current package that treats source: "cli" sessions as projectless, making them visible in Desktop without changing the stored conversations: https://gist.github.com/SunParis/113afac7a1b8d6954e9cc58b23d63f50

Would you please take a look and consider including it in the PKGBUILD? Please let me know if you find any issues or prefer a different approach. I would be happy to discuss it further and help with testing.

@mothran just gave it a try and it works fine. Thanks for merging :)

I updated the app version + applied the patch to the mainline. Let me know if you encounter other issues and appologies for the delay.

@dcelasun I finally did :) / could you validate the codex merged version + patch works for you?

Version 26.707.30751 has merged Codex and ChatGPT apps, breaking my patch, so here is an updated version: https://gist.github.com/dcelasun/8d002bc05d32491204c0bf695bc6b3d6

@mothran will you please finally include it in the PKGBUILD?

@eddy Is there a fix for GNOME? I tried using this skill on GNOME, but it didn't work.

If u cannot focus the input textbox, can use this skill.

https://github.com/Eddy-Cui/codex-desktop-kde-focus-fix/blob/main/SKILL.md

The solution of @JiangHuDao is worked for me, thx. Btw, download patch file from https://gist.github.com/dcelasun/8d002bc05d32491204c0bf695bc6b3d6 first, and put it in the openai-codex-desktop directory.

paru -G openai-codex-desktop
cd openai-codex-desktop
patch -p1 < openai-codex-desktop.patch
updpkgsums
makepkg -si

@v3lody I do not know what the sed command is for, as I use this command and do not fix the flickering issue, only the patch -p1 < openai-codex-desktop.patch and updpkgsums command provided by @JiangHuDao can solve this issue. Version 26.602.71036-2

@mothran yes, my fixes are still needed and they will remain that way until/unless upstream creates an official Linux build.

Here's the latest patch. You can commit this as-is and it will work. https://gist.github.com/dcelasun/8d002bc05d32491204c0bf695bc6b3d6