tui: settings dialog shows Animations as off while animations are enabled by default #52577

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   simonklee

   on Oct 1, 2026
2. github-actions commented on Oct 1, 2026

   

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   This issue might be a duplicate of or related to existing issues. Please check:

   • #39368: Requests persistent TUI animation controls, including an option to disable animations.
   • #42306: Reports TUI spinner animations continuing to redraw and causing high CPU usage.
3. aihaipeng commented on Oct 5, 2026

   

   aihaipeng

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   @simonklee I've submitted #53293 to fix the animation setting default mismatch reported in this issue.
4. opencodejr commented on Oct 28, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the clear report. I reproduced this on 2.0.21, and it still happens on the latest dev (891a020bc).

   With no animations key in cli.json, /settings → Appearance → Animations shows off. After closing the dialog and sending a prompt, the spinner still animates: the two spinner screenshots below are 300 ms apart and show different frames. The recording below shows the whole sequence, and the script below reproduces it.

   The cause matches what you found: the settings registry entry has default: false, while every runtime read falls back to ?? true. Until it's fixed, setting "animations": true explicitly, as you're doing, makes the dialog show the right value.

   recording.mp4

   

   

   

   Reproduction script (drive.ts)

   // Repro for #52577: with `animations` unset in cli.json, /settings shows Animations "off"
   // while spinners still animate (runtime reads use `config.animations ?? true`).
   import { Effect } from "effect"
   import { Llm, OpenCodeDriver } from "opencode-drive"
   
   export default OpenCodeDriver.use(
     {
       ...(process.env.OC_DEV ? { opencode: { dev: process.env.OC_DEV } } : {}),
       tui: { recording: true, keypressOverlay: true },
     },
     ({ ui, llm }) =>
       Effect.gen(function* () {
         yield* Effect.sleep(1500)
         // Settings dialog: Animations row uses registry default (false)
         yield* ui.type("/settings")
         yield* Effect.sleep(500)
         yield* ui.press("return")
         yield* Effect.sleep(1000)
         yield* ui.type("animations")
         yield* Effect.sleep(1000)
         yield* ui.screenshot("settings-animations")
         yield* Effect.sleep(1000)
         yield* ui.press("escape")
         yield* Effect.sleep(500)
         // Animations are actually running: the working spinner animates while the model is busy
         yield* llm.queue(Llm.pause(5000), Llm.text("Done."))
         yield* ui.submit("hello")
         yield* Effect.sleep(1500)
         yield* ui.screenshot("spinner-1")
         yield* Effect.sleep(300)
         yield* ui.screenshot("spinner-2")
         yield* ui.waitFor("Done.")
         yield* Effect.sleep(1000)
       }),
   )

   Run it with opencode-drive: opencode-drive run ./drive.ts. It drives opencode from your PATH; set OC_DEV to the path of an OpenCode checkout to run that from source instead.
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